Tag: Democrats

Newly elected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, who will lead the 116th Congress, holds out her hand to Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., after he gave her the gavel at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Washington Secrets

2020 Swamp: 79 percent of House seats already rated ‘safe’

Paul Bedard · January 17, 2019 7:42 pm

President Trump speaks during an event.

The Atlantic cover story calls for Trump’s impeachment

Katelyn Caralle · January 17, 2019 5:59 pm

Congressman Dan Crenshaw, R-TX, speaks during an interview with the Washington Examiner, at his office on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, January 16, 2019.

Dan Crenshaw: Moving the State of the Union ‘silly,’ ‘a terrible precedent’

Al Weaver · January 17, 2019 1:55 am

President Trump holds up copies of his speech before the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018.

Washington Secrets

Good company: 26 of 45 presidents didn’t give State of the Union speech

Paul Bedard · January 16, 2019 3:59 pm

In this June 27, 2018 photo, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is photographed while being interviewed in Rockefeller Center in New York. Ready or not, change is coming to the House Democrats. Across the country, a new generation of Democrats is making its way to Washington.

Ocasio-Cortez helps drum up more progressive challengers to mainstream Democrats

Katelyn Caralle · January 16, 2019 1:14 pm

A worker cleans the floors at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, which has been impacted by the partial federal government shutdown at the Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019.

Magazine - Columnists

With its vote on paying federal workers, Congress just ducked accountability

Reps. Thomas Massie and Chip Roy · January 16, 2019 5:00 am

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Twitter spat: Freshman members of Congress spar over pay during government shutdown

Katelyn Caralle · January 16, 2019 4:20 am

Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listens during a news conference with members of the Progressive Caucus in Washington, Monday, Nov. 12, 2018.

Ocasio-Cortez, other progressives expected to join House Financial Services Committee

Colin Wilhelm · January 16, 2019 2:31 am

Matt Whitaker speaks during a live televised debate in Johnston, Iowa.

Matthew Whitaker agrees to testify before House Judiciary Committee

Kelly Cohen · January 15, 2019 9:35 pm

House calls out Steve King in vote to condemn white nationalism

Al Weaver · January 15, 2019 8:29 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., accompanied by Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., and others, speaks during a news conference discussing women's health care, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

House Democrats vow to repeal ban on federal funding for abortions

Kimberly Leonard · January 15, 2019 4:23 pm

Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., questions Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as he testifies before a House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 11, 2018.

Two House Democrats push for Congress to censure Steve King

Naomi Lim · January 14, 2019 8:56 pm