Senate Democrats quickly voted to adjourn the impeachment trial against Alejandro Mayorkas after deeming it unconstitutional — ending proceedings on Wednesday without any votes to convict or acquit. The result was widely expected, but concludes months of House Republican efforts to target the Homeland Security secretary over the Biden administration’s border policies. In the Senate, […]
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House lawmakers passed additional bills meant to counter Iran following last weekend’s attack on Israel. Those measures: The Standing Against Houthi Aggression Act, which would designate the Iran-backed Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization. President Joe Biden reversed that designation, issued under the Trump administration, back in 2021. The Iran Sanctions Relief Review Act, which […]
A political group with ties to former Speaker Kevin McCarthy is going on air against some of the Republicans who ousted him from leadership. The American Prosperity Alliance, a nonprofit which does not have to disclose its donors, is running an immigration-focused TV ad in several districts, including those held by Reps. Bob Good (R-Va.), […]
Sen. J.D. Vance on Wednesday encouraged a group of House Republicans to block debate on their own speaker’s foreign aid plan — an uncommon effort by a member of one chamber to sway policy across the Capitol. Vance (R-Ohio) delivered the remarks Wednesday before the Republican Study Committee, the biggest House GOP caucus, according to […]
House Democrats are still digesting Speaker Mike Johnson’s four-part foreign aid plan, but are signaling they’re open to helping him move it. “Let’s make sure everybody gets a chance to see it, socialize the substance of it,” said Rep. Annie Kuster (D-N.H.), chair of the centrist New Democrat Coalition. “It may not look the same, […]
Sen. Eric Schmitt scuttled a last-minute attempt by Senate leaders on a modest deal to structure the impeachment trial against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, sending the chamber toward a quick Democratic dismissal of the charges. Most of the GOP conference preferred the pact, which would force Democrats to take several tough votes. But after […]
A Boeing engineer turned whistleblower told senators Wednesday that the company repeatedly sidelined and threatened him when he raised safety concerns about their aircraft, saying: “I was told, frankly, to shut up.” Sam Salehpour, who is still employed by the company, said he even faced physical threats after raising concerns. “My boss said, ‘I would […]
Speaker Mike Johnson has released text of his four-part proposal to send aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, moving ahead with the plan that’s fueling fresh conservative demands for his ouster. Aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan is split into three different bills, with a fourth that would seize Russian assets, force a TikTok sale […]
Donald Trump could have cleared up confusion and hastened the arrival of National Guard troops to quell the Capitol riot if he’d called Pentagon leaders on Jan. 6, 2021, according to recent closed-door congressional testimony by two former leaders of the D.C. guard. Michael Brooks, the senior enlisted leader of the D.C. guard at the […]
Wednesday’s Boeing safety inquest in the Senate opened with lawmakers blaming a rash of incidents on Boeing planes on not only what they called the company’s poor safety culture, but also on the Federal Aviation Administration for letting it happen on their watch. During a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday to probe what’s going wrong […]