The House voted 212-214 against beginning debate on the fiscal year 2024 defense spending bill, dealing another blow to Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who has seen his efforts to pass legislation frustrated by the far-right flank of his own party. Five Republicans broke ranks in voting ...
has drawn discontent among some Republican lawmakers, who are refusing to vote for the deal. Under Paul’s plan, the debt ceiling would be given a $500 billion increase to encourage Congress to take action on the nation’s debt sooner. Paul’s proposal also includes caps on both the sums ...
“a traitor to the Constitution.” The GOP senators whovoted for the bipartisan billto address gun violence and will remain in the Senate to vote for Gaetz's confirmation areShelley Moore Capito,Bill Cassidy,Susan Collins,Cornyn,Joni Ernst,Lindsey Graham,McConnell,Lisa Murkowski, TillisandTodd ...
The House voted 217-206, roughly along party lines, to adopt a measure that opened debate on a military construction and veterans affairs appropriations bill, amid signs that Republican leaders were near an agreement with hardline conservatives who have demanded cuts that would leave next year's...
gone down because six Democrats voted no. They Steve No. And those 13 Republicans voted for it before the Democrats even voted no. So they gave them cover. They gave them the bill and they turned the key. That’s going to open up this massive spending bill to come.[01:20:59][39.2...
Republicans — trying to placate Donald Trump, who had also denounced the previous funding deal for being too kind to Democrats — had worked out the funding deal among their own party and did not involve Democrats. But GOP lawmakers argued that the bill, which still included more than $100...
In this episode of theFiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, HuffPost polling editor Ariel Edwards-Levy joined Galen Druke and Perry Bacon Jr. to discuss the second impeachment of President Trump: why the House votes broke down the way they did, what the different camps are in the GOP and what wi...
When it came time to vote up or down on the infrastructure package, Hinson voted with her partyagainst the bill. The congresswoman soon after issueda written statement, condemning the bipartisan legislation as "a partisan, socialist spending spree." In fact, the Iowan referred to "sociali...
aOf course, there was not much to separate an independent who voted for most or all of the Republicans in the general election from a voter who registered as a Republican at the last moment, which in Connecticut at that time was as late as noon on the last business day preceding the pri...
to get that carveout the Senate had to successfully invoke cloture onthe legislation enabling it. But most of the same group of senators who voted for cloture on the October 2021 deal alsovoted for it on that bill, as did Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst (the GOP’s policy committee chair), North...