Jennifer Shutt, Georgia Recorder Congress will need to pass a second stopgap funding measure before Thanksgiving if lawmakers want to avoid a government shutdown, though pushing off final decisions on full-year spending bills until next year would put lawmakers smack dab in the middle of what’s expected to be a …
Read More »Majority of House GOP Speakership Candidates Sign “Unity” Pledge
A majority of the House Republicans running for the speakership have embraced a pledge designed to ensure the next speaker can secure the necessary 217 votes on the floor. This strategy aims to prevent the vote-counting turmoil that derailed previous contenders, such as Reps. Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan. Seven …
Read More »At Least 10 GOP Lawmakers Make Bid For U.S. House Speaker
Susan J. Demas, Rhode Island Current A growing field of contenders for House speaker has assembled after Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio fell short of the 217 votes needed for the chamber’s top job three times last week. At least 10 GOP lawmakers have said they would run. The …
Read More »McCarthy May Jump Into House Speaker Race, As Crises Overseas Mount
Jennifer Shutt, South Dakota Searchlight House Republicans gathered behind closed doors Monday night in an attempt to decide who should become the chamber’s next speaker, a race with a renewed sense of urgency with ally Israel now at war and the House in paralysis. Louisiana’s Steve Scalise and Ohio’s Jim …
Read More »Government Shutdown Nears: House GOP Fails To Pass One-Month Spending Plan
Jennifer Shutt, Nebraska Examiner A sweeping government shutdown appeared inevitable on Friday, with the U.S. Senate stuck in a procedural holding pattern on its bipartisan stopgap bill and divided U.S. House Republicans unable to pass their short-term spending bill. Both chambers of Congress must approve and President Joe Biden must …
Read More »Raskin Leads Defense At Biden Impeachment Hearing; GOP Witnesses See Insufficient Evidence Of Wrongdoing
Ariana Figueroa With two days before a partial government shutdown, House Republicans held their first impeachment inquiry hearing Thursday over unproven allegations that President Biden benefited from his son’s business dealings overseas. Witnesses tapped by Republicans for the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing acknowledged that there was no evidence showing …
Read More »Parents Have No Right To Allow Their Children’s Gender Transition, Republicans Say
Ariana Figueroa, Ohio Capital Journal U.S. House Republicans on a panel for limited federal government on Thursday argued that parents should not be allowed to let their transgender children have access to gender-affirming care. “A parent has no right to sexually transition a young child,” the chair of the House …
Read More »GOP Advances Bill That Could Remove 220,000 Teachers From Classrooms
House Democrats warned that hundreds of thousands of teachers could lose their jobs if legislation advanced Friday by a Republican-controlled appropriations subcommittee becomes law. The panel’s draft Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies funding bill for the coming fiscal year calls for nearly $64 billion in total …
Read More »House Republicans Pass Overhaul Of Federal Elections System Out Of Committee
by Ariana Figueroa, Georgia Recorder On a party-line vote, the U.S. Committee on House Administration on Thursday night passed a bill that would enact strict new voting laws for states, such as requiring copies of IDs for voting by mail, and set penalties for states that allow voting by noncitizens …
Read More »Vulnerable U.S. House Republicans Who Opposed Student Debt Plan Targeted In 2024
Ashley Murray, New Jersey Monitor Supporters of student loan debt cancellation are organizing to hold GOP lawmakers “accountable” in the 2024 election cycle following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling blocking President Joe Biden’s debt relief plan. The left-leaning Protect Borrowers Action will target 13 U.S. House districts across California, Colorado, …
Read More »House GOP Panel Releases Budget That Would ‘Destroy Social Security as We Know It’
A panel comprised of three-quarters of the House Republican caucus released a budget proposal on Wednesday that would raise the Social Security retirement age—cutting benefits across the board—while further privatizing Medicare and slashing taxes for the rich, a plan that Democratic lawmakers and progressive advocacy groups said is a clear …
Read More »Spending Standoff Ahead As House Republicans Demand $130 Billion In Cuts
Jennifer Shutt, Iowa Capital Dispatch House Republicans outlined Wednesday how they would cut $130 billion from the annual government funding bill. Their spending total is significantly lower than the level both parties agreed to in the debt limit deal just two weeks ago. The spending levels likely set up a …
Read More »New GOP Bills Would Hand Richest 1% Over $28 Billion in Tax Cuts Next Year
Tax cut legislation that House Republicans are set to consider this week after pushing the global economy to the brink of disaster would deliver more than $28 billion to the richest 1% of Americans next year—and just $1.4 billion to the poorest fifth of the country. That’s according to a …
Read More »House GOP Plan to Create ‘Fake Hysteria’ Over Gas Stoves Backfires
Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams Progressive pundits on Tuesday derided what one commentator called a “complete shitshow” as a group of hard-right House Republicans voted with their Democratic colleagues in tanking GOP-backed bills to block regulation of gas stoves. Members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus joined Democrats in voting against …
Read More »After Years Of Bipartisan Spending Boosts, House GOP Won’t Lift Debt Ceiling Without Cuts
Jennifer Shutt, Georgia Recorder Republicans and Democrats in Congress together brokered dozens of debt limit agreements, including several during the past decade, marked by a desire in both political parties to increase federal spending. But U.S. House Republicans now are pushing for the federal government to spend less next year …
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