Tag: Democratic Party

Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., right, listens as Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., left, questions.

The Party of the Rich goes to bat for its constituents

Washington Examiner · January 5, 2019 5:00 am

President Trump's immigration proposal asks for tough concessions from Democrats. Above, Trump meets with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other Congressional leaders in the Oval Office of the White House. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Beltway Confidential

The worst American politics since the Civil War

Quin Hillyer · January 4, 2019 7:41 pm

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks to reporters after meeting with President Donald Trump about border security in the Situation Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 4, 2019, in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Nancy Pelosi, the adult in House Democrats’ room

Tiana Lowe Doescher · January 4, 2019 7:25 pm

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., smiles following a group photo with the women in the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 4, 2019, during the opening session of the 116th Congress.

Media blame Trump after freshman Democrat calls Trump ‘motherf–ker’

Katelyn Caralle · January 4, 2019 5:41 pm

Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who won her bid for a seat in the House of Representatives in New York's 14th Congressional District, at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics at Harvard University, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggests 60, 70 percent tax rate for the rich to pay for ‘Green New Deal’

Katelyn Caralle · January 4, 2019 4:39 pm

Buzz Patterson, Rashida Tlaib.

Beltway Confidential

Rashida Tlaib is right not to apologize for her ‘impeach the motherf–ker’ rant against Trump

Philip Klein · January 4, 2019 2:49 pm

House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., arrives for a House Judiciary hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Judiciary chairman: ‘It is too early to talk about’ impeachment

Katelyn Caralle · January 4, 2019 2:21 pm

Specialist John O'Hara works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. Stocks are coming off their worst year in a decade as investors worry about slowing global economic growth and trade tensions between the U.S. and China.

Trump blames financial market downturn on new Democrat-controlled House

Katelyn Caralle · January 4, 2019 1:38 pm

Rep.-elect Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., pauses to speak to media.

Freshman Democrat: ‘We’re gonna go in and impeach the motherf–ker’

Anna Giaritelli · January 4, 2019 4:28 am

At a climate change meeting, Vice President Joe Biden admits there is no proof global warming causes fires.Â (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

Biden has the infrastructure to launch a 2020 bid, but is his experience a negative in the Democratic primary?

Siraj Hashmi · January 4, 2019 12:29 am

Members of the new House Democratic leadership, front row from left, Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., the vice chair of the Democratic Caucus, Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Assistant Democratic Leader Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., join others in their caucus in applauding Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on the opening day of the 116th Congress.

Diversity, climate, debt: Democrats rewrite House rules

Susan Ferrechio · January 4, 2019 12:20 am

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., sits with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., left, on the opening day of the 116th Congress as the Democrats take the majority at the Capitol in D.C.

Democrats position House counsel to defend Obamacare, forcing GOP to take tough vote

Kimberly Leonard · January 4, 2019 12:06 am