Tag: Congress

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks to supporters gathered at The Champions of Liberty Rally in Hebron, Ky., Friday, Aug 11, 2017. Rep. Jordan was joined at the fundraising event by Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, U.S. Rep Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky.

House GOP split over Big Tech antitrust: Jordan versus Buck

Christopher Hutton · February 25, 2023 12:00 pm

The House on Friday passed legislation aimed at curbing President Obamaâs use of executive authority to slow deportations of young people who arrived here as children.

Beltway Confidential

The many bipartisan opportunities for energy policy

Sasha Mackler · February 25, 2023 6:00 am

Incoming House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California receives the gavel from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York on the House floor at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, early Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023.

McCarthy and Jeffries form bipartisan task force on booting lawmakers from committees

Juliegrace Brufke · February 24, 2023 11:20 pm

Derailed freight train cars lay in water in Paulsboro, N.J., Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. People in three southern New Jersey towns were told Friday to stay inside after the freight train derailed and several tanker cars carrying hazardous materials toppled from a bridge and into a creek. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Ohio train derailment: House Republicans launch investigation into Buttigieg’s response to disaster

Samantha-Jo Roth · February 24, 2023 10:55 pm

The Capitol in Washington is quiet after lawmakers departed the for the Independence Day recess, Friday, June 30, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Let’s make a deal: The 7 things Congress might actually agree on revealed

Samantha-Jo Roth · February 24, 2023 8:04 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 10, 2018.

McConnell says Ukraine aid ‘not an act of charity’ on one-year anniversary of conflict

Virginia Aabram · February 24, 2023 4:56 pm

FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2013, file photo, a woman looks at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. After last fall's tumultuous, bitterly partisan debt ceiling and government shutdown battles, a sense of fiscal fatigue seems to be setting in among many Washington policymakers as President Barack Obama prepares for his fifth State of the Union address later this month. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Voters split on raising debt ceiling decision as negotiations continue: Poll

Cami Mondeaux · February 24, 2023 1:41 pm

Daily on Defense

One year later: On grim anniversary, Zelensky declares, ‘We see the light of this victory’

Jamie McIntyre · February 24, 2023 12:10 pm

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy leaves the House Chamber after President Joe Biden's State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington.

McCarthy walks debt ceiling tightrope in first major test of speakership

Cami Mondeaux · February 24, 2023 10:40 am

From left, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy stand on the East steps of Capitol Hill in this Dec. 2021 photo.

Magazine - Washington Briefing

GOP candidate quality questions return in top-tier Montana Senate race

Samantha-Jo Roth · February 24, 2023 4:30 am

Nancy Mace blasts MTG’s call for ban on Democrats voting in red states: ‘Fundraising gimmick’

Juliegrace Brufke · February 23, 2023 11:02 pm

President Joe Biden (center) shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Ted Cruz accuses Zelensky of political ‘theater’ during Biden’s Ukraine visit

Virginia Aabram · February 23, 2023 8:15 pm