The House, which is lurching back to action after going three weeks without a speaker, is scheduled to take up its FY24 Interior-Environment spending bill, which would make sharp cuts in funding for the Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agency while also repealingthe...
Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., introduced a bill Tuesday that would prevent medical schools that provide DEI programs from receiving federal funds. The ironically namedEDUCATE Act(short for Embracing Anti-Discrimination, Unbiased Curricula, and Advancing Truth in Education)has dozens of Republican co-sp...
House leadership has scheduled a vote on the measure for Wednesday. A Republican congressional aide not authorized to speak publicly said that’s still the plan and there has not been significant pushback to the bill from lawmakers. A vote for the bill would represent an unusual break with ...
A House Republican accused the Treasury Department in a letter Wednesday of running interference for the White House in an effort to stymie efforts to investigate Hunter Biden's finances. Rep. James Comer, the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, cited a June 13 phone...
Johnson, a Louisiana Republican,unveiled the packageearlier this week amid increasing pressure from other congressional leaders and the White House to hold a vote on a similar $95 billion package that passed the Senate in February. The Senate package has sat idle in the House for months as the...
The letter was signed by crypto opponents and many lawmakers who had been neutral on crypto until now. 3456 News Crypto-friendly Patrick McHenry takes interim House Speaker position Oct 04, 2023 by Brayden Lindrea Eight Republicans voted against Republican Representative McCarthy, making it the...
"I want to encourage the speaker again to allow a vote," the Kentucky Republican said Tuesday. "Let the House speak on the supplemental that we sent over to them several weeks ago." Ellis Kim contributed reporting.
But Maryland’s Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, who met with Biden in the Oval Office last week, warned going it alone could also bring political perils. "I said to him, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. And I said that I thought that it was good for ...
In 2019 the House voted to impeach Trump over allegations that he had withheld aid to Ukraine in order to pressure the country into opening a corruption investigation into Joe Biden, a political rival. The proceedings then shifted to the Republican-controlled Senate, and in February 2020 Scott ...
Last-gasp proposal for pared-down bill would also need to pass Republican-controlled House February 7 2024 War in Ukraine Biden blames Trump for sinking US deal to fund Ukraine war effort Former president had trashed congressional agreement seen as last chance to send more aid to Kyiv ...