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Category: Politics
Pelosi: Continuing resolution ‘would be a last resort’ lead image
Schumer: Senate can’t leave until reaching rail agreement lead image
House Republicans are playing high-stakes tug of war with Kevin McCarthy’s speakership dreams. And now both sides are digging in their heels. On the GOP leader’s right, conservatives are meeting with House rules officials to strategize ahead of a planned floor challenge to McCarthy during the speakership vote on Jan. 3. Meanwhile, centrist Republicans are […]
House progressives forced Democratic leaders to boost paid leave for railroad workers before agreeing to avert a potentially disastrous strike. They may end up with little more than a symbolic win. The compromise arranged between Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s leadership team and an emboldened left hinged on a seemingly elegant solution to avoid a rail strike: […]
GOP senators threaten to block defense bill over Covid vaccine mandate lead image
Congress is considering whether to seat a delegate from the Cherokee Nation for the first time — a proposal nearly 200 years in the making. The non-voting delegate would be Kimberly Teehee, a former Obama administration adviser on Native American issues, who was appointed to the position in 2019. Non-voting members of Congress have no […]
‘It’s an honor’: Jeffries reflects on Dem leadership win lead image
Cherokee Nation pushes Congress for delegate seat lead image
The strategy behind Hakeem Jeffries’ yearslong ascent to House Democratic leader, as his top allies see it, focused on making the outcome feel inevitable. And in the end, it did. The New York Democrat culminated a remarkably frictionless climb of the party ladder on Wednesday, securing every vote and avoiding a single challenger. He became […]