Tag Archives: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

On Tuesday, a North Carolina man who threatened to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison. Cleveland Meredith Jr., a Trump supporter from Hayesville, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to one count of interstate communication of threats in September. U.S. District Judge Amy …

Former United States Senator and GOP Republican Presidential nominee Bob Dole died Sunday morning at the age of 98. The Elizabeth Dole Foundation confirmed his death after a battle with lung cancer. Dole had revealed in February 2021 that he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer and was …

Oregon‘s most senior congressman, U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), announced Wednesday morning that he will not seek reelection to his 4th Congressional District seat. He is the longest-serving member of Congress in Oregon history. In a statement, DeFazio said it is “with humility and gratitude” that he is announcing he …

On Thursday, the House voted mostly among party lines to pass the Protecting Our Democracy Act, which addresses presidential abuses of power and reinforces the checks and balances between the branches of government. The vote was 220-208, with Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger being to sole Republican to vote along with all …

The House on Wednesday voted 223-207 to censure Arizona Republican Paul Gosar and remove him from his committee roles for posting an animated video that depicted him killing New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an action he has refused to acknowledge as inappropriate. Two Republicans joined all Democrats to force Gosar …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday said that Democrats are nearing a deal on President Joe Biden‘s ‘Build Back Better’ Act. The social spending bill that Democrats have been negotiating for months includes most of the president’s priorities, including an array of benefits for students, families and the elderly, and …

The House of Representatives voted late Tuesday to extend the federal debt limit through early December, sending the bill to President Joe Biden’s desk, who is expected to sign it. The party-line vote of 219-206 approves an increase of $480 billion to the debt limit until Dec. 3, lifting it …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi outlined a “time of intensity” this week, saying her caucus “must pass” President Biden’s $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act, a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal, and a bill to keep the government open as it will run out of money on Thursday, September 30. The …

The House passed the Women’s Health Protection Act on Friday as part of the Democrats’ efforts to protect abortion rights established under the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade. As a federal law, the bill would overrule and pre-empt restrictive abortion-related laws at the state level, such as Texas’ …

Democratic congressional leaders on Monday unveiled plans to tie the suspension of the nation’s debt limit to a spending bill that would also fund the government through the end of the year after the current budget lapses on September 30. The fate of the plan is unclear since Republicans have vowed …

Sen. Joe Manchin on Sunday said he would not vote for President Joe Biden‘s $3.5 trillion spending bill, saying he does not believe Congress can pass it within the timeline set out by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Manchin, D-W.Va., told CNN’s State of the Union he had informed Senate Democratic …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and several lawmakers were not impressed by Representative Seth Moulton and Representative Peter Meijer’s trip to Afghanistan this week. The two Congress members, who are also Iraq War veterans, announced on Tuesday that they flew to Afghanistan “to conduct oversight on the mission to evacuate Americans …

The House on Tuesday approved by a vote of 220-212 a $3.5 trillion budget resolution that, when passed, will help expand the social safety net in the United States. The vote came after almost two days of negotiations with a group of House moderates who were threatening to withhold their …

Yesterday, Alabama Rep. Terri Sewell introduced H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The legislation would restore key protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), which were gutted by the Supreme Court in the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision and more recently in the 2021 Brnovich v. …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote a letter to her colleagues on Sunday expressing that she is looking to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the $3.5 trillion budget resolution at the same time. In the letter to her Democratic colleagues on Sunday, Pelosi said that she asked the House Rules …