Tag: House of Representatives

No Things Considered

Speaker Paul Ryan talks Tuesday’s election and tax reform with Joseph Lawler on No Things Considered

Tim Young · November 9, 2017 12:44 am

His office did not give an exact date he would return to Congress. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Wisconsin Rep. Mark Pocan undergoes triple bypass surgery

Ariella Phillips · November 9, 2017 12:06 am

President Trump may not be the most likable man in Washington, but he has more than one ally in Congress who has his back. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Trump’s 5 best friends in Congress

Al Weaver · November 8, 2017 3:00 pm

The Save Local Business Act passed the House in a 242-181 vote, but its fate is uncertain in the Senate. (iStock)

House passes bill to limit ‘joint employer’ corporate liability

Sean Higgins · November 7, 2017 11:54 pm

Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., sat next to a stack of Internal Revenue Code volumes as the House Ways and Means Committee began the markup process of the GOP's far-reaching tax overhaul Monday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Ban congressional hearings

Pete Kasperowicz · November 7, 2017 5:01 pm

Rep. Ted Lieu spoke about his decision to leave the House chambers during a moment of silence for the Texas shooting victims in a video posted to his Facebook. He said, "I respect their right to do that, and I myself have participated in many of them, but [...] what we need is we need action, we need to pass gun safety legislation now." (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Invision/AP)

Ted Lieu leaves House chamber for moment of silence for Texas shooting victims to protest inaction on gun control

Melissa Quinn · November 7, 2017 4:01 pm

"Everyone enjoys a tax cut all across the board," House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., told Fox News' Laura Ingraham Monday night. "What this 'bubble rate' does is it says the millionaires don't get the tax cut that is aimed for low and middle-class people, the people in the 12 percent bracket." (screenshot)

Paul Ryan pushes back on ‘bubble tax’: Everyone will receive a cut

Diana Stancy Correll · November 7, 2017 5:19 am

President Trump delivered a speech to the U.S. troops at the U.S. Yokota Air Base, on the outskirts of Tokyo, on Sunday. Trump arrived in Japan Sunday on a five-nation trip to Asia, his second extended foreign trip since taking office and his first to Asia. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

National Security

Trump asks Congress for $6 billion for missile defense, ship repair, Asia strategy

Joel Gehrke · November 6, 2017 10:00 pm

It will be a busy week for Republicans in both the House and Senate, with the lower chamber focused on pushing its tax reform agenda through Congress and the upper chamber focused on seating President Trump's Cabinet nominees. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP takes charge on taxes and judicial nominees

Susan Ferrechio · November 4, 2017 1:00 pm

Some lawmakers are shying away from saying that inclusion is critical to their support. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Conservatives plot how much to push Obamacare mandate repeal in tax bill

Robert King · November 4, 2017 4:01 am

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady suggested that it would be too risky to allow a complex bill that would affect the economy to be abruptly changed in a floor vote. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Republicans plan four-day tax bill markup but no amendments on House floor

Joseph Lawler · November 3, 2017 5:43 pm

Rep. Steny Hoyer's remarks on Obamacare mirror comments that Republicans have made for years, that Democrats' rush on healthcare essentially allowed them to push through a major bill affecting millions of people without any Republican input. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

House Democrat: Jamming Obamacare through Congress ‘didn’t work’

Pete Kasperowicz · November 3, 2017 5:33 pm