House Republican Majority Leader Steve Scalise sidestepped thorny questions Tuesday on whether Congress would allow the U.S. todefault on its debtafter lawmakers adopted new rules making it more difficult to raise federal limits. The U.S. is perilously close ...
But with hardliners pushing for lower spending, the House and Senate are at least $120 billion apart, with Senate appropriators aiming at the $1.59 trillion in fiscal 2024 discretionary spending agreed by McCarthy and Biden in June. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said negotiations be...
Republicans managed to hold onto their slim majority in the House of Representatives, NBC News projects, after two years of chaos that kept successes to a bare minimum.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on Tuesday that he was he experiencing mild symptoms after testing positive for COVID-19. The second-ranking Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives said he will work and cast votes remotely. "Thankfully, ...
It remains unclear who will fill the vacant slot for speaker -- third in command after the president and the vice president. Republican Representative Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise both announced Wednesday that they plan to join the...
Now that it has cleared the committee, the TikTok legislation will head to a floor vote next week, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said ina post on XThursday evening. Its fate is less clear in the Senate, where there is no companion bill and the Democratic chair of the Senate Commerce...
Jeffries won Wednesday’s uncontested election after Pelosi and the two other incumbent members of the Democratic leadership, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, opted to step down. Jeffries, a 52-year-old New Yorker, will be the first African ...
house majority leader steny hoyer (d-md) walks to a vote on the house floor at the united states capitol building in washington, u.s., september 21, 2022. reuters/evelyn hockstein washington (reuters) - u.s. house majority leader steny hoyer wil...
11/06/2024, 1:51pm ET House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Wednesday his party still had a path to win a majority with many races still not yet called.Control of the House remained in questionWednesday as remaining votes were tallied. ...
If Sullivan moves forward, it would be the second such confrontation in just more than a month on the Senate floor. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer set up confirmation standalone votes on three Joint Chiefs picks — Gen. C.Q. Brown to be chair, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George and ...