Tag: GOP

House Speaker Mike Johnson Survives GOP Ouster Attempt

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., can breathe a little easier now that more than 80% of his House colleagues put an end to the latest drama gripping Capitol Hill. Six months after ascending to the speakership, a bipartisan coalition of Democrats and Republicans overwhelmingly voted to table a motion to vacate the chair—the House’s terminology for […]

Pete McCloskey dies at 96; GOP congressman once challenged Richard Nixon

FRESNO, Calif. — Pete McCloskey – a pro-environment, anti-war California Republican who co-wrote the Endangered Species Act and co-founded Earth Day – has died. He was 96. A fourth-generation Republican “in the mold of Teddy Roosevelt,” he often said, McCloskey represented the 12th Congressional District for 15 years, running for president against an incumbent Richard […]

Nevada GOP Sues to Block Bogus Ballots – HotAir

In 2021, Democrats in Nevada joined many of their other blue state allies in making sweeping changes to voting laws in the state. Among the more controversial edits was a rule that would allow ballots to be counted if they were received as much as four days after the election, depending on the postmark on […]