Tag: Congress

Reps. Jason Smith, Vern Buchanan, and Adrian Smith.

McCarthy ally wins three-way race to lead powerful Ways and Means Committee

Juliegrace Brufke · January 9, 2023 8:36 pm

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, June 22, 2021 in Washington. On Sunday, May 1, 2022, Hutchinson said he is considering a presidential run in 2024 and his decision wonât be affected by whether former President Donald Trump joins the race.

Asa Hutchinson warns impeachment against Biden officials must be based on ‘wrongdoing,’ not policies

Cami Mondeaux · January 9, 2023 8:35 pm

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Congressional rules reforms ‘make it easier’ to add to debt, budget hawk group claims

Ryan King · January 9, 2023 7:46 pm

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., speaks as the House of Representatives debates the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019.

House hunters: Six issues GOP will target in first bills of new Congress

Virginia Aabram · January 9, 2023 7:25 pm

Reps. Dan Crenshaw and Mark Green.

Mark Green beats Dan Crenshaw in race to chair Homeland Security Committee

Juliegrace Brufke · January 9, 2023 5:19 pm

President Donald Trump smiles and points at Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, as Trump arrives to speak at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting, Saturday April 6, 2019, in Las Vegas.

Majority of GOP value loyalty to Trump as lawmakers seek to break from his influence

Cami Mondeaux · January 9, 2023 5:16 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., third from right, accompanied by from left, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., President Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, speaks to reporters following a Senate Republican Policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Trump pushes for primary challenges against McConnell and others who ‘vote with him’

Cami Mondeaux · January 9, 2023 4:08 pm

House GOP moves to pass ban on oil reserve sales to China in first slate of bills

Jeremy Beaman · January 9, 2023 3:34 pm

Incoming House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California holds the gavel on the House floor at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, early Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023.

McCarthy faces first test as speaker as House prepares to vote on rules package

Cami Mondeaux · January 9, 2023 2:51 pm

Beltway Confidential

Instead of fighting tax-cutting states, feds should follow their example

Preston Brashers · January 9, 2023 2:24 pm

This photo taken July 23, 2013, show the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Congress returns to work this week with a relatively short and simple agenda, vote to keep the government operating in the short term, then return home to campaign. National security threats from Islamic State militants and Russian aggression in Ukraine loom large, but September's session may be too short for lawmakers to do anything but talk about them.

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Address inflation and protect Social Security, public demands of new Congress: Poll

Conrad Hoyt · January 9, 2023 1:23 am

Republican lawmakers, from left, Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, ranking member of the Committee on Oversight Reform, and Rep. Lee Zeldin R-N.Y., appear before members of the media outside a closed door meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019.

WATCH: Jim Jordan says ‘sometimes, democracy’s messy’ in defense of speaker chaos

Julia Johnson · January 8, 2023 9:37 pm