"And if my predecessor is watching instead of playing politics and pressuring members of Congress to block this bill, join me in telling Congress to pass it,” Biden said. “We can do it together.” Biden also attacked Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric. The president said he would not ...
The results from last week’s congressional elections aren’t yet finalized, but Republicans, under Hudson’s leadership, are likely to enter the next Congress with an almost identical, very narrow majority to the one they currently have. ...
In June 2011, Weiner stepped down from Congress in the midst of a sexting scandal involving him and a Seattle woman, whom he had explicit communications with. In two year’s time, however, Weiner, who was still married to political staffer Huma Abedin since the public first learned of the ...
As if the powerful Jewish Lobbies from without are not enough for American Jewry to gain total control of the US Congress, Jews have infiltrated the halls of Capitol Hill with more seats than ever before in American history – in both the Senate and in the House. In fact, Jews chair ma...
on his way out of Congress, the top job on the House Financial Services Committee is up for grabs — and a quartet of contenders are vying for the gavel. Reps. Andy Barr (R-Ky.), French Hill (R-Ark.), Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) and Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.) have all jumped into ...
After Buckley’s successor, Nicholas Henry Darnell resigned sometime in 1862, Buckley was elected to the vacant office of Speaker for the First Called Session that convened on February 2, 1863, defeating Reps. Robert Turner Flewellen and John Smith, 54 votes to 5 and 1, respectively.Buckley ...
Why are so many Republicans retiring? Some of the retiring GOP lawmakers have served in Congress for several decades: Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas, who first joined the House in 1991; Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Florida, who first arrived at Capitol Hill in 1989; Rep. John Duncan, R-Tenn...
The actress, who revealed she has asthma and a thyroid condition, compared the symptoms to when she had mono and admitted she was feeling “regret” about taking off her mask in public. “I’m feeling a whole bunch of regret that I ever took my mask off ever in the world, like even...
If I’m clutching reps, we just say ‘that’s fast’, he’s not telling me ‘oh, that’s an Olympic gold medal time’. “The only time I’ll really start thinking about them when I’m in the Olympic Village, and it’s the day before my race. Then I jus...
"We currently have somebody right now sitting in the White House who has turned his back on Iowa farmers who are quite literally my friends and family," Finkenauertold the Telegraph Herald newspaperin Dubuque after an event with Biden last month. ...