United States presidential election of 1968, American presidentialelectionheld on November 5, 1968, in which RepublicanRichard M. Nixondefeated DemocratHubert H. Humphrey. At a glance: the election of 1968 Background The run-up to the 1968 election was transformed in 1967 whenMinnesota’sDemocratic...
In the tweet, the California Republican wrote: "President Biden claimed he'd never negotiate. Leader (Senate Majority Leader Charles) Schumer insisted there'd be a ‘clean' debt increase. They were wrong. Republicans fought to spend l...
Rosendale issued a statement after the conference vote accusing McCarthy of wanting "to maintain the status quo, which consolidates power into his hands and a small group of individuals he personally selects." He continued, "We need a leader who can stand up to a Democrat-controlled Senate ...
Congress was able to avoid shutting down the government after McCarthy put a 47-day funding resolution on the floor Saturday, hours before funding for the government would expire. It won the support of every Democrat but one, and 90 Republicans voted against it. The bill was overwhelmingly pas...
Upon the advice of Senators John Sherman Cooper, a Moderate Republican from Kentucky and J. William Fulbright, a Democrat segregationist from Arkansas and legal assistance from the National Committee for an Effective Congress, a liberal organization, he modified his resolution to “bring it in line...
through Nov. 17 andprevent a shutdownfrom beginning Sunday. The measure passed both chambers with the bipartisan support needed to clear not only the House but the Democrat-controlled Senate and be signed into law by President Biden — a dynamic that exacerbated tensions in the Republican r...
McCarthy added that Manchin is only the latest Democrat to buck his party in a major way, pointing to how New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew switched his affiliation to Republican during the Trump years. "We had an individual reregister from Democrat to Republican and I think there are a few...
The Republican's marathon floor speech, which started Thursday night and ended before dawn the next day, eclipsed the previous mark set by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The Democrat spoke for eight hours and seven minutes on immigration policy in February 2018. Here are five key quotes from McC...
Her absence, first reported by POLITICO, is a surprising move from the California Democrat who's known to have a terrible relationship with her successor at the helm of the House. Pelosi spokesperson Aaron Bennett said in a statement that "she is very saddened not to be there for this histo...
" Fine said. "We also need to be speaking out strongly against the dangerous anti-Semitism that is growing in our streets and in the Democrat party, resulting in an alarming number of horrific violent attacks against Jews."