Category : Congress news

House GOP bristles as a Jan. 6 investigation lands in its lap

In the days after the deadly Capitol attack on Jan. 6, tension among House Republicans was so high that one of them privately suggested some GOP colleagues be punished for their roles in encouraging the riot.This GOP lawmaker drafted a list of about...

Biden op-ed: Infrastructure deal is one ‘American people can be proud of’

President Joe Biden on Monday pitched the bipartisan infrastructure deal as one “American people can be proud of,” while cautioning that there was a lot of work ahead to finish the final product.“This deal is the largest long-term investment in our i...

Pelosi mulls an unexpected add to her team of Jan. 6 investigators: A Republican

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is considering choosing a House Republican as one of her eight appointees for the Democrat-led investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, according to an aide in her office.Though Pelosi hasn’t signaled which member she would...

New Middle East airstrikes inflame Democratic war powers debate

President Joe Biden’s weekend airstrikes against Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria are rankling Democrats frustrated by his decision to sidestep Congress — a dynamic that promises to fuel the party’s long-running push to rein in presidential war...

New Middle East airstrikes enflame Democratic war powers debate

McConnell tries to derail Democratic infrastructure strategy

Mitch McConnell is pressuring President Joe Biden and congressional Democratic leaders to further weaken the link between a bipartisan infrastructure deal and a bigger liberal-leaning spending bill, warning Monday that Biden's party wants to "ho...

Mike Gravel, former U.S. senator from Alaska, dies at 91

SEASIDE, Calif. — Mike Gravel, a former U.S. senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and confronted Barack Obama about nuclear weapons during a later presidential run, has died. He was 91.Gravel, who represent...

Romney on Trump's rally rhetoric: 'The election is over. It was fair.'

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said “let’s move on” from questioning the 2020 election results in response to former President Donald Trump's rhetoric at his rally in Ohio on Saturday evening. In his first rally since leaving the White House, Trump contin...

Biden adviser says Lindsey Graham 'doesn't have a clue' on crime

President Joe Biden’s senior adviser, Cedric Richmond, pushed back on a Republican critique that efforts to defund the police have played a large part in rising crime rates across the country. On “Fox News Sunday” with Chris Wallace, Richmond respond...

Republicans back on board after Biden's infrastructure clean-up

President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda appears back on track in Congress, with Republicans praising his newly clarified approach to their bipartisan infrastructure plan and a key Democrat endorsing work on a separate, larger spending package.Two GOP n...

Republicans face diversity vs. seniority challenge on key finance panel

A race to fill one of the most coveted committee seats in Congress is forcing Republican leaders to make a tough choice between how much they value seniority over the need to improve diversity in their ranks.At least six GOP lawmakers are vying for a...

GOP struggles with diversity test on powerful finance panel

House Dems head off retirement crisis — for now

Rep. Stephanie Murphy was hiring staff for an all-but-declared Senate bid in Florida. Rep. Madeleine Dean consulted with Democratic leaders about a potential statewide run in her home state of Pennsylvania. And in Texas, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez was fig...

GOP infrastructure negotiators fume over Biden's handling of their deal

Senate Republicans who negotiated an infrastructure deal with President Joe Biden celebrated Thursday, then woke up angry on Friday.The five GOP senators who cut a deal with moderate Democrats and the president are frustrated that Biden explicitly ti...

Wine, watermarks and a farmer's nudge: How the infrastructure deal got done

Nearly every day over the last week, Jon Tester insisted that the Senate’s latest bipartisan alliance had to seal an infrastructure deal before the next morning. After several whiffs, his nudges paid off.With talks among his group and President Joe B...