The House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to move forward a key part of President Joe Biden’s agenda: a massive, $3.5 trillion budget plan to expand social programs like Medicare, tackle climate change and fund pre-K and community college.
But the narrow vote — 220 to 212 — signaled the tricky process facing the…
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) defended House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to block two Republican congressman from serving on a select committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
Pelosi announced earlier on Wednesday that she would reject Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), two of Donald…
A proposal to create a commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol cleared the House of Representatives on Wednesday, but its prospects are uncertain in the Senate because of the opposition of Republican leadership.
The vote was 252-175, with 35 Republicans breaking with GOP leadership and…
UPDATED with latest: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has finally responded to repeated attempts by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to confront her.
Interviewed on the street outside the Capitol, Ocasio-Cortez said on Friday, “This is a woman that’s deeply unwell, um, and clearly needs some help.”
Of Greene’s…
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) gave a speech on the House floor Tuesday on the eve of her expected ouster from House Republican leadership, as she vowed to continue to speak out against Donald Trump and his false claims that the election was stolen.
CNN carried Cheney’s six-minute speech live, and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes later…
UPDATED, 6:02 PM: Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) survived an effort to oust her from House Republican leadership, a move that would have been punishment for her vote to impeach Donald Trump.
The vote was 145 to 61 among the House Republican conference to retain Cheney, <a…
Nancy Pelosi was elected to another term as Speaker of the House, in an ever-so-tight vote that reflected Democrats’ narrower majority in the next Congress.
Pelosi was elected 216-208 and will serve as speaker for her fourth term. Pelosi got the support of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others on the left flank of the…
Expected to visit Northern California, President Donald Trump has added a visit to Southern California and the Ventura County fire areas to his itinerary.
Air Force One touched down at Naval Air Station Point Magu at 3:07 PM, a location just north of Los Angeles. Trump planned to meet with Andrew Fox, the mayor of…
“Darkest Hour — I promise I won’t make any present-day jokes,” NBC News star Chuck Todd vowed at the top of a panel discussion preceding the period political drama’s screening Thursday in Washington, during which participants enthused about Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill and everyone tried hard not to draw…
Jimmy Fallon's guest lineup tonight just got nuked thanks to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who stunned Washington and TV news networks this morning by dropping his bid to succeed John Boehner as Speaker of the House. The vote to replace Boehner, aka third in line for the White House, has been postponed, and…
Stephen Colbert packed a lot of politics into his Late Show opening last night. As had many other late night show hosts, he began by addressing the latest school shooting. Late-night comedy show serious/sad openers have become part of that post-school-shooting routine President Obama was talking about in his latest…
Kevin McCarthy‘s name might be familiar in Hollywood — his home state is California — and thanks to House of Cards, the job he just left is known to many more Americans than it once was. But the new No. 2 in the U.S. House of Representatives is definitely not a man of Hollywood. He’s not the strong-jawed actor who…
