Tag: Democrats

Vice President Mike Pence, center, looks on as House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and President Trump speak during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

As Trump and Pelosi become ever more petulant, they both need to swallow a bitter shutdown pill

Daniel DePetris · January 17, 2019 10:58 pm

"The government is ignoring its own citizens, endangering their lives and property for some politically correct reasons and enabling these criminal aliens to remain in this country," Rep. Brian Babin said.

Congressman asks Democrats not to fund Rashida Tlaib’s Palestinian delegation

Joel Gehrke · January 17, 2019 9:29 pm

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019.

Pelosi’s office cries foul after trip canceled, says Trump visited Iraq during the shutdown

Naomi Lim · January 17, 2019 9:08 pm

Ilhan Omar and Lindsey Graham.

House Democrat says it’s her ‘opinion’ that Lindsey Graham has been ‘compromised’

Katelyn Caralle · January 17, 2019 8:29 pm

Newly elected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, who will lead the 116th Congress, holds out her hand to Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., after he gave her the gavel at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Washington Secrets

2020 Swamp: 79 percent of House seats already rated ‘safe’

Paul Bedard · January 17, 2019 7:42 pm

President Trump speaks during an event.

The Atlantic cover story calls for Trump’s impeachment

Katelyn Caralle · January 17, 2019 5:59 pm

Congressman Dan Crenshaw, R-TX, speaks during an interview with the Washington Examiner, at his office on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, January 16, 2019.

Dan Crenshaw: Moving the State of the Union ‘silly,’ ‘a terrible precedent’

Al Weaver · January 17, 2019 1:55 am

President Trump holds up copies of his speech before the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018.

Washington Secrets

Good company: 26 of 45 presidents didn’t give State of the Union speech

Paul Bedard · January 16, 2019 3:59 pm

In this June 27, 2018 photo, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is photographed while being interviewed in Rockefeller Center in New York. Ready or not, change is coming to the House Democrats. Across the country, a new generation of Democrats is making its way to Washington.

Ocasio-Cortez helps drum up more progressive challengers to mainstream Democrats

Katelyn Caralle · January 16, 2019 1:14 pm

A worker cleans the floors at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, which has been impacted by the partial federal government shutdown at the Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019.

Magazine - Columnists

With its vote on paying federal workers, Congress just ducked accountability

Reps. Thomas Massie and Chip Roy · January 16, 2019 5:00 am

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Twitter spat: Freshman members of Congress spar over pay during government shutdown

Katelyn Caralle · January 16, 2019 4:20 am

Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listens during a news conference with members of the Progressive Caucus in Washington, Monday, Nov. 12, 2018.

Ocasio-Cortez, other progressives expected to join House Financial Services Committee

Colin Wilhelm · January 16, 2019 2:31 am