House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Thursday officially invited President Joe Biden to testify before the panel
You might be forgiven for thinking that the Republican Party had a majority in the House of Representatives. After all, it secured slightly more seats than the Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections. But believing that the GOP had a majority in the House would be a mistake. Since the 118th Congress convened in January […]
Republicans' control of the House of Representatives is continuing to slip, with Wisconsin Congressman Mike Gallagher announcing on Friday that he intends to leave the chamber next month.In a statement shared to X, formerly Twitter, Gallagher, 40, wrote that he will resign from his position of representing Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District on April 19. The GOP representative is serving his fourth term in Congress and announced early last month that he did not have plans to run for...
House Republicans face a basic math problem: With just 219 votes, their majority isn’t very big. That means that if they try to pass legislation along party lines, they can afford basically no defections, at most a single holdout. If House Republicans cannot pass legislation by themselves, they will need to rely on Democratic votes House Republicans face a basic math problem: with just 219 votes, their majority isn’t very big.
An Iberia Parish woman doesn’t know where to turn after losing everything in a house fire.
Dozens of framed photographs and paintings on the walls in Gabrielle’s cozy one-bedroom apartment in Boyle Heights showcase her artistry and cherished memories from trips to New Zealand and Europe. Her favorite is a black and white portrait of a miner in New Zealand panning for gold. Gabrielle (who is
If you’re looking for an encapsulation of just how much of a mess the House Republican conference is, go no further than this headline from The Washington Post on Friday: “A majority of House Republicans retreat from their retreat.” It seems the one thing the majority of them can agree on is just how much they don’t want to have to deal with each other. Or maybe they just didn’t want to be subjected to more of House Speaker Mike Johson’s sermons. Johnson was able to get less than half of his...
Ahead of the 2022 midterms, I predicted that a Republican majority in Congress would result in two years of “mind-numbing, gut-churning inanity, the kind that becomes a weariness seeping into your bones.” That prediction has been largely vindicated, and yet somehow reality has proved even worse for the House GOP. Everywhere you look in the halls of Capitol Hill is a string of failures for the supposedly ascendent MAGA Republicans. Victories for the far-right have been few and far between, even...
As turmoil continues within the House Republican caucus, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) appeared on Fox News Channel's "Jesse Watters Primetime" and weighed in on that turmoil and the decisions his successor, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), is facing.
(The Center Square) – Republicans’ advantage in the U.S. House of Representatives will be only 217-213 after April 19, following Friday’s decision by U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher to resign. The resignation means no more than one Republican can cross the aisle on party-line votes. Wisconsin’s 8th Congressional District representative, just 31 when he first won his seat in November 2016, had already said he would not seek a fifth term this election cycle. The timing is...
Congressman once considered a rising Republican star to leave in April,
The House of Representatives passed the remainder of its annual appropriations bills on Friday, marking the first step toward avoiding a shutdown just hours before federal funding is set to lapse for a slew of government agencies. Lawmakers passed the $1.2 trillion spending bill in a 286-134 vote, overcoming the two-thirds threshold needed to advance The House passed the remainder of its annual appropriations bills on Friday, marking the first step toward avoiding a shutdown just hours before...