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In his "This Week with Gosar" newsletter Monday, U.S. Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ-09) said that during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing, every Democrat voted against H.R. 7109, the Equal Representation Act, which would add a citizenship question to the decennial census. An amended version of the legislation passed the committee vote (22-20) and awaits further action on the House floor. Gosar, who serves on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, stated that...
Things got spicy at a Republican county campaign event in Perryville, Missouri, last Friday, in an expletive-filled confrontation that was caught on video. State Sen. Denny Hoskins cursed out Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, calling him“chicken shit” numerous times, as well as “a fucking coward.” Hoskins is running for Ashcroft’s office in the GOP primary, and is also a member of the extremist Missouri Freedom Caucus. In a post on X, Hoskins said the incident took place after...
Donald Trump on Friday endorsed a primary challenger to Rep. Dan Newhouse of Washington, one of two remaining House Republicans who voted to impeach the former president over his role in the Jan. 6 riot. In a Truth Social post, Trump threw his support behind Jerrod Sessler, a former petty-officer in the Navy who has gone after Newhouse for his impeachment vote. "Jerrod Sessler is a fantastic candidate and will be a GREAT Congressman for Washington State’s 4th Congressional District," Trump...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) unveiled a gambit to burst a legislative logjam and unleash a four-vote flood including a standalone vote on tens of billions in American taxpayer aid to Ukraine.
(Inside California Politics) — Northern California Congressman Tom McClintock (R-El Dorado Hills) joined Inside California Politics co-host Frank Buckley to discuss his opposition to the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Rep. McClintock says this effort should not have moved forward based on policy disagreements. "This was an unfortunate dumbing-down of the standards for []
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is in grave peril as renegade House Republicans are threatening to call a motion to remove him from power, exactly as they did for his predecessor Kevin McCarthy.The craziest part of this whole affair, analyst David Chalian told CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday, is that the far-right House rebels are throwing away the power of the entire GOP House majority in its current state — coming at a moment when they were just rebuked by the summary dismissal of their...
The House of Representatives has voted to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act days after some Republicans blocked the legislation from reaching the floor without their demands. NBC News' Ryan Nobles reports on the vote and the amendment that would have limited warrantless surveillance that failed to pass.
House Republicans are brushing off concerns that they will be censured for voting down a rule that would bring the reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to the floor, with a few taunting, “Go ahead.” On Wednesday, 19 Republicans voted with Democrats to effectively kill the House’s attempts to move a bill forward that […]
A Republican lawmaker complained about student loan forgiveness, only to have the White House remind him about his own forgiven debts.Oklahoma Rep. Kevin Hern (R) took to social media on Friday to complain about President Joe Biden's latest initiative. Specifically, Biden is reported to have cancelled about $7.4 billion more in student loan debt for 277,000 borrowers."Biden's debt transfer scheme puts the burden on taxpayers, forcing the 87% without loans to foot the bill for the 13% who do,"...
By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania House Democrats are proposing a process to determine if state representatives are “incapacitated” and to sanction or expel them. The rule change was proposed by Democratic floor leader Rep. Matt Bradford on Thursday. It’s being made in response to Democratic Rep. Kevin Boyle of Philadelphia
Standing shoulder to shoulder with Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump appeared at a Friday press conference at Mar-a-Lago. The purpose of the event was to announce the details of an upcoming Congressional bill to ensure illegal aliens don't hurt the integrity of U.S. elections in November--especially on the federal level.