One of Capitol Hill’s longest doubters about the spark that fired the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots joined Utah Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) today in calling for an investigation into the bias of the anti-Trump House Jan. 6 committee. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said on X, formerly Twitter, “I’m calling on @SpeakerJohnson to create […]
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Stop-gap funding bill passed to avert shutdown
Congress has passed a temporary funding measure that will keep federal agencies operating until the new year, days before the US faced a government shutdown. The Senate passed the stopgap bill by a vote of 87-11 on Wednesday night after the House passed it earlier this week. President Joe Biden is expected to sign the […]
House to consider bill to avert Friday shutdown
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan to prevent a government shutdown will be considered by the House on Tuesday, according to a notice sent to lawmakers late Monday night. The stopgap measure to temporarily fund the government, known as a continuing resolution, will be put on the House floor under a procedure known as suspension of […]
Less than a week before Govt shutdown-Again
House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled his proposal on Saturday to avoid a partial government shutdown by extending government funding for some agencies and programs until Jan. 19 and continuing funding for others until Feb. 2. The approach is unusual for a stopgap spending bill. Usually, lawmakers extend funding until a certain date for all programs. […]
Speaker Johnson scrambling to avoid shutdown
Speaker Mike Johnson is learning quickly that, although he may have received unanimous support to get the gavel, the sharp divisions among House Republicans over spending bills remain. Two times this week, Johnson, R-La., was forced to pull federal budget bills from the floor after it became clear that Republican opposition meant they would fail […]
Fund Ukraine or fund or fund the Government?
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and newly elected Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) are headed for a showdown over emergency funding for Ukraine and funding the government beyond Thanksgiving, two tough issues that will test their ability to work together. McConnell says he wants to keep military aid to Ukraine and Israel tied together because […]
Mike Johnson is new Speaker; who is he?
WASHINGTON — Republicans elected a new speaker of the House on Wednesday in Rep. Mike Johnson, ending 22 days of a paralyzed chamber after a group of rebels overthrew Rep. Kevin McCarthy. Johnson, R-La., was nominated on Tuesday after three previous nominees flamed out. He unified the fractious conference, winning votes from right-wing detractors of McCarthy, […]
Will we get a speaker after 22 days without one?
House Republicans voted late Tuesday night to select Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., to be their latest nominee for speaker even as it remains unclear that any candidate can win enough votes to be elected on the House floor. “Democracy is messy sometimes, but it is our system,” Johnson told reporters at a press conference after […]
House to vote on Jim Jordan for speakership
Conservative Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio is bringing the House back to the floor Tuesday to vote on whether he will succeed ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy and finally end the chamber’s prolonged paralysis amid deep GOP divisions. Jordan picked up key support from holdouts heading into Tuesday’s vote, which comes two weeks after McCarthy’s […]
Will Jim Jordan be the next Speaker ?
Rep. Jim Jordan has such a reputation as a political brawler that former House Speaker John Boehner once said he’d never met someone “who spent more time tearing things apart.” Now, nearly a decade after Boehner stepped down in the face of a conservative revolt, it is Jordan who is trying to bring the Republican […]
Fetterman says Congress is not ‘best or brightest’
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., joined late night host Stephen Colbert on Wednesday and said Americans weren’t sending their “best and brightest” to Capitol Hill, arguing that it is “scary.” “Is it awkward to be in the Capitol and then run into people that you have put up a devastating meme about because you’ve got excellent […]
US Congress dormant until new speaker elected
A revolt by a small group of hard-line Republicans has left the House without an elected speaker and, as a result, unable to do legislative business. It spent much of last week on recess, and isn’t expected to reconvene to vote on a new speaker until midweek at the earliest. It’s not clear how long […]