The House on Friday advanced a bill to renew the government’s chief spying powers, recovering from a major hiccup earlier in the week when Republicans tanked the legislation. A vote is expected later in the day to pass the reauthorization of the hotly-debated Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s Section 702 which allows the U.S. to collect […]
Rep. Austin Scott, a Republican from Georgia who has criticized conservatives and is campaigning actively against the House Freedom Caucus chairman, is Speaker Mike Johnson’s choice for a newly vacant seat on the powerful Rules Committee. Scott’s selection Wednesday infuriated conservatives on Capitol Hill. The Daily Signal spoke with several lawmakers and staffers whose reactions […]
BISMARCK, N.D. — Republican primary voters in North Dakota will have an assortment of choices for the state’s only U.S. House seat, with candidates ranging from the little-known to a former Miss America. Monday was the candidate filing deadline for the June 11 primary election. Along with a new representative, North Dakotans will elect a […]
NEWS AND OPINION: House Majority Leader Steve Scalise has shared “Committee Cliff Notes” — a daunting preview of what House Republican committees are up to this week. For one thing, they are holding hearings to address 73 complex legislative matters in 16 different categories — a to-do list that includes ever-popular appropriations to armed services, […]
The Senate this week will take up impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and the White House is weighing in, calling the proceedings a “complete waste of time.” Ian Sams, a White House spokesman, pointed to constitutional law experts who have largely panned the impeachment as lacking constitutional teeth, and he said that […]
Republicans firmly believe they will retain control of the House in November, and even grow their historically slim majority because of a not-so-secret weapon: former President Donald Trump. Their bullishness is a tonal change from last year, when the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy and difficulty in basic tasks such as passing spending bills […]
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner accused his GOP colleagues on Sunday of succumbing to Russian propaganda on the war against Ukraine. The Ohio Republican echoed the position of House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, who recently said that “Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a […]
The House Freedom Caucus listed a series of demands to earn its support for funding the rebuilding of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, mainly calling on the Biden administration to lift natural gas export bans. Their wishes came Friday, the same day President Biden said during a visit to Baltimore that the federal […]
Over three dozen House Democrats, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, signed a letter Friday pressing the Biden administration to stop sending weapons to Israel following a drone strike that left seven aid workers dead in Gaza. The letter, also signed by Reps. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, James McGovern of Massachusetts, and Jan […]
House Democrats introduced legislation to change the name of a Miami prison for former President Donald Trump, just days after their Republican colleagues proposed changing the name of Washington Dulles International Airport to honor the former president. The bill would rename the Miami Federal Correctional Institution to the “Donald J. Trump Federal Correctional Institution.” The […]
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