Tag: Congress

Republican Mayra Flores hauls in $861,000 for Texas bid to unseat Democrat Vicente Gonzalez

Gabe Kaminsky · October 12, 2023 4:22 pm

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) returns to his office after the House approved a 45-day funding bill to keep federal agencies open, but the measure must first go to the Senate, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023.

Democrats won’t throw Scalise a lifeline as GOP defections mount

Cami Mondeaux · October 12, 2023 4:14 pm

For this House GOP majority, nothing comes easy

W. James Antle III · October 12, 2023 4:08 pm

The speaker's dais is seen in the House of Representatives of the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. After House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job by a contingent of hard-right conservatives this week, House GOP leaders are now grappling to find a new speaker. With no speaker of the House, a constitutional officer second in line to the presidency, the Congress cannot fully function â to pass laws, fund the government, and otherwise serve as the branch of government closest to the people â during a time of simmering uncertainty at home and abroad.

WATCH LIVE: House convenes as Scalise struggles to win over Republican votes for speaker

Jack Birle · October 12, 2023 3:14 pm

Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) speaks to reporters after a closed-door meeting of House Republicans during which he was nominated as their candidate for speaker of the House, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, in Washington.

Scalise’s cancer diagnosis cited as concern among GOP amid speaker fight

Cami Mondeaux · October 12, 2023 2:59 pm

MTG, Boebert, Mace, and the Republicans who could stop Scalise getting the gavel

Julia Johnson · October 12, 2023 2:08 pm

Israel war: Rashida Tlaib faces censure call from Jack Bergman after comments on Hamas terrorist attack

Julia Johnson · October 12, 2023 11:53 am

Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL)

GOP congressman goes to Israel to rescue stranded Americans: ‘Difference between statesmen and politicians’

Heather Hamilton · October 12, 2023 4:28 am

Rep. George Santos (R-NY) departs a House Republican closed-door caucus to decide who to nominate for speaker of the House on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, in Washington.

GOP lawmakers introduce expulsion resolution against George Santos amid latest charges

Reese Gorman, Emily Jacobs · October 11, 2023 7:09 pm

Steve Scalise predicts he will ‘have the votes’ to secure speaker’s gavel

Julia Johnson · October 11, 2023 2:12 pm

Only quarter of GOP voters say removing McCarthy as speaker was right move: Poll

Cami Mondeaux · October 11, 2023 1:58 pm

Israel war: GOP fears US vulnerable to terror attack amid Hamas bloodshed

David Sivak · October 11, 2023 1:25 pm