Tag: House of Representatives

What will 2018 have in store? Border walls? Landslide elections? The end of Steve Bannon's political career? The Washington Examiner commentary desk takes a swing at the answer. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

2018 predictions from the Washington Examiner commentary team

Tom Rogan · January 2, 2018 9:43 pm

The U.S. is engaged in a debate over the kind of regime we are going to live in, and what the government is going to do to and with us. President Trump seems to be engaged in this battle, as are his allies in Congress. But many, if not most, Republicans in Washington are not. That is the problem. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Beltway Confidential

Did we get closer or farther from true constitutional government during Trump’s first year?

Matthew Spalding · December 30, 2017 5:01 am

On Fox News Monday, political analyst Ron Meyer warned about the risk of full-blown student loan forgiveness that many students are championing on campuses across the country. (screenshot)

Red Alert Politics

House bill could allow students to pay loans with future social security money

Lauren Cooley · December 26, 2017 11:16 pm

"I'm just hoping our system comes apart as gracefully as the Soviet system." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Ron Paul: Trump may be vulnerable to 2020 GOP primary challenge

Steven Nelson · December 26, 2017 9:17 pm

The House of Representatives extended their break by a week, will return to session on Jan. 8. Previously, the House was scheduled to be in session the week of Jan. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House extends break by a week, will remain out of session until Jan. 8

Diana Stancy Correll · December 22, 2017 9:43 pm

House Speaker Paul Ryan suggested revisiting the Obamacare issue as early as January. "At the end of the day, we've got to go after the root cause—health care inflation and entitlements. Welfare reform is going to be our next lift." (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Paul Ryan wants to tackle entitlements, healthcare, and welfare in 2018

Philip Klein · December 22, 2017 3:20 pm

In a letter to the House speaker, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., noted that Democrats are "deeply concerned by the Majority's efforts to curtail the House Intelligence Committee investigation and its overall failure to address Russia's meddling in the 2016 election." (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

National Security

Nancy Pelosi demands Paul Ryan continue House Russia probe

Diana Stancy Correll · December 22, 2017 12:40 pm

Finally, Something Goes Right

Stephen F. Hayes · December 22, 2017 9:00 am

The House spending bill to fund the government until Jan. 19 gives the Children's Health Insurance Program $2.85 billion in new funding through the end of March. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

House spending bill gives children’s health insurance new funding

Robert King · December 21, 2017 12:32 pm

House will vote on temporary spending, disaster relief bills Thursday

Susan Ferrechio, Robert King · December 21, 2017 8:17 am

Rep. Kevin Brady put a positive spin on the House re-vote. "With this vote, it'll be the House, the people's house, that officially sends this legislation to President Trump's desk," the Texas lawmaker said. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Congress sends historic tax bill to Trump

Joseph Lawler · December 20, 2017 5:56 pm

House Speaker Paul Ryan said he is working with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to introduce reform bills in Congress that would give victims of sexual harassment more support.

Why Paul Ryan says the House won’t investigate sexual harassment allegations against Trump

Anna Giaritelli · December 20, 2017 12:54 pm