Category : Congress news

McCarthy responds to MAGA caucus: GOP isn't party of 'nativist dog whistles'

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy declared Friday that the GOP is not the party of “nativist dog whistles” — an indirect swipe at a new right-wing caucus being formed inside his conference.“America is built on the idea that we are all created equa...

Cash floods into battle for control of Congress

Democrats’ narrow majorities are in peril in next year’s midterms, and their most vulnerable members are seeing a major cash infusion early in the fight to keep Congress in their control.The four swing-state Senate Democrats likeliest to face the tou...

Big spending on personal security ignites post-Jan. 6 debate over members' budgets

Sixteen days after her vote to impeach then-President Donald Trump, Rep. Liz Cheney’s campaign office logged a $22,000 expense for personal security. Two days before his vote to convict Trump, Sen. Mitt Romney’s campaign team recorded $43,000 spent f...

Democrats hand their foes a weapon as they weigh a filibuster loophole

Chuck Schumer is hatching plans to further evade the constraints of the filibuster — and in the process, he could be teaching Republicans how to do it in the future.Faced with a 50-50 Senate that limits his ability to maneuver on major priorities, th...

Lawmakers scramble for 'musical chairs' to view Biden's first Capitol speech

Which is a hotter ticket: Beyoncé’s first post-pandemic concert or President Joe Biden’s first address to Congress? Washington is about to find out.Even as life slowly returns to normal on Capitol Hill amid the shrinking threat of Covid, stric...

2024 GOP contenders collect cash

Some potential Republican 2024 presidential hopefuls are starting to see their coffers fill up — particularly those senators who led efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to quarterly FEC filings from their reelection committees.Fo...

Cruz, Hawley dwarf potential 2024 rivals in fundraising

Dems weigh narrower health ambitions for infrastructure package

Democratic leaders are signaling they’ll scale back the party’s pent-up ambitions for Medicare expansion and drug pricing reform as negotiators eye the next phase of President Joe Biden’s sweeping infrastructure package.The “social infrastructure” pi...

Democrats agonize over game theory on Biden’s $2T-plus spending plan

President Joe Biden is rolling out his multitrillion-dollar spending package in two parts, hoping to market its sweeping scope as infrastructure both concrete and human. Now Republicans have to decide if they’ll buy it.One of the president’s closest...

McCarthy: I've met with Gaetz, he professed innocence

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Thursday he has met privately with Rep. Matt Gaetz and that the Florida Republican denied any impropriety stemming from a federal sex trafficking investigation that's entangled him.“I’ve spoken to Mr. Gaetz a...

Pelosi dismisses progressive ‘court packing’ legislation

Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday rejected a push from the left wing of the party to swiftly vote on legislation to expand the Supreme Court with Democrats in full control of Washington. “I have no intention to bring it to the floor,” Pelosi said of t...

Reparations bill approved out of committee in historic vote

Reparations legislation could soon be headed to the House floor for the first time in more than three decades. Now comes the hard part.Wednesday night, the House Judiciary Committee voted to bring H.R. 40 out of committee — a historic feat not accomp...

Mitch McConnell wants his conference to say nice things about these 2 Democrats

Mitch McConnell had an unusual request for Senate Republicans this week: Say nice things about two Democrats.Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) are under lots of pressure from liberal activists and their Democratic colleagues to...

The GOP's most important votes: 2 Democrats

Democrats to introduce legislation to expand Supreme Court

House and Senate Democrats will introduce legislation Thursday to expand the number of Supreme Court justices to 13 from nine, drawing more attention to the debate surrounding court reform.The bill, led by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Jerry Nadl...