Tag: Republicans

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., second from left, poses during a ceremonial swearing-in with Rep. Francis Rooney, R-Fla., right, on Capitol Hill in D.C.

Energy and Environment

GOP centrist and skeptic jockey for spot on Pelosi’s climate ‘crisis’ committee

Josh Siegel · January 11, 2019 5:00 am

President Trump talks with reporters after a Senate Republican policy lunch on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019, in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Don’t give ‘Tariff Man’ more tariff power

Erin Dunne · January 11, 2019 2:14 am

In this Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017, photo, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy speaks with House Majority Whip Steve Scalise during a news conference on the tax bill on Capitol Hill in Washington.

McCarthy, Scalise denounce Steve King over ‘white supremacist’ remarks

Al Weaver · January 10, 2019 11:14 pm

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks to members of the media.

Graham gives up on shutdown talks: ‘I have never been more depressed’

Al Weaver · January 10, 2019 8:20 pm

Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders.

Bernie Sanders voted most popular senator again, while Jeff Flake and Claire McCaskill bottom out

Katelyn Caralle · January 10, 2019 6:23 pm

Cornyn offers ‘reciprocity’ for 17 million concealed carry permit holders

Paul Bedard · January 10, 2019 1:48 pm

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., walks to a podium to speak during a demonstration against the partial government shutdown on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019.

8 Republicans vote to reopen the Treasury Department in test of House GOP unity

Susan Ferrechio · January 9, 2019 10:11 pm

A Transportation Security Administration employee helps air travelers check in at a TSA security checkpoint at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, in Atlanta.

Pressure: GOP offers to pay federal employees who work during the shutdown

Pete Kasperowicz · January 9, 2019 5:39 pm

"The GOP should focus on repealing & replacing Obamacare, not trying to save it," Rep. Mark Walker tweeted from the Republican Study Committee account.

Republicans united behind Trump in shutdown, for now

Susan Ferrechio · January 9, 2019 5:00 am

Nellie Liang, director of financial stability policy and research with the U.S. Federal Reserve, waits to speak during a financial stability analysis conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday, May 31, 2013.

Trump Fed nominee opposed by Senate Republicans withdraws

Colin Wilhelm · January 8, 2019 1:48 am

Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who won her bid for a seat in the House of Representatives in New York's 14th Congressional District, asks 2014 Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai a question at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018.

GOP lawmakers groan as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez votes for Nancy Pelosi to be speaker

Naomi Lim · January 3, 2019 8:12 pm

En route to a meeting at the White House, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., left, walks with Sen. Richard C. Shelby, R-Ala., chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, as work continues prior to a Friday night funding deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown, in Washington, Friday, Dec. 21, 2018. Trump is imploring McConnell to change the Senate's rules in order to pass the spending bill with money for a border wall.

Shutdown could last ‘months and months,’ says Senate Republican

Al Weaver · January 3, 2019 6:50 pm