Boehner blamed the defeat of the Patriot Act — the post-9/11 national security law — on the 36 Democrats who voted against the bill on Tuesday after supporting similar provisions in the 111th Congress. “If the Democrats who voted for these same provisions last year would have voted for...
Republicans have taken a beating on SCHIP, the $35 billion measure that would expand health insurance for children. The fight quickly turned nasty as Democrats ran campaign ads attacking Republicans who voted against the bill in their home districts. Bush vetoed the bill two weeks ago. And Boehn...
Rep. David Valadao, one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach President-elect Donald Trump in 2021 over the Capitol riot, won reelection in California's 22nd District, CBS News projected. Valadao is one of two Republicans who supported impeachment who remain in office. The race was...
Boswell is a centrist Democrat who voted for the resolution authorizing President Bush to go to war in Iraq and for the House Republican immigration bill. Health problems sidelined Boswell for much of the spring, but the candidate seems back on his feet, a few pounds lighter. He ha...
The House failed on Thursday to advance a constitutional amendment that would require Congress not spend more than the nation collects in revenue. Some conservative lawmakers had hoped a vote on the bill would calm grassroots conservatives who had been fuming about recent high levels of...
once: no Republican senators voted for his COVID package, but the American people—including a significant portion of Republican and Republican-leaning voters—overwhelmingly supported it, and the GOP lawmakers who tried to keep it from passing have nevertheless seemed eager to cla...
The DFL began the process Wednesday of finishing off a longsocial-legislation list, underscoring...Grow, Doug
Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, two Republicans who voted to convict Trump after his second impeachment trial in 2021, objected to his decision to give blanket pardons. Cassidy, who is up for reelection and facing a primary, told CNN: “I’m a...
in the Georgia special House election Tuesday night has House Republicans who recently voted for a deeply unpopular bill to repeal Obamacare breathing a sigh of relief. And it will now offer some cover – even political reassurance – to Senate Republicans who aregearing up to cast similar votes...
Lawmakers who voted for the Laken Riley Act — including House and Senate Democrats — have been invited to a signing ceremony for the bill Wednesday afternoon, according to three people familiar with the matter who were granted anonymity to speak candidly. The GOP-pushed immigration bill garnered...