The apparent self-evidence of the necessity of a speaker means the Constitution is a little vague about one of the most important jobs in the country.Article I, Section 2merely says, “The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers”; the job wasn’t mentioned at ...
two counts of making materially false statements to the United States House of Representatives In the second indictment, prosecutors accused Santos of stealing his campaign donors' identities and racking up thousands of dollars in unauthorized charges on their credit cards to benefit his campaign and ...
Few bills are usually voted on by the full House early in a legislative session, but even preliminary work has been frozen because operating rules also determine the partisan makeup of committees. Since early January, Rozzi has been holding public meetings with six state represe...
The judge said Cutler sought rulings on "nonjusticiable political questions regarding which party in the House of Representatives has the majority and, concomitantly, who in the House of Representatives has authority to act as Majority Leader" and issue writs of election in the inter...