Former Rep. Wiley Nickel dropped his bid for North Carolina’s open Senate seat Tuesday and endorsed Roy Cooper, all but clearing the field for the former Democratic governor. “I proudly endorse Governor Cooper for US Senate and look forward to doing everything I can to help him flip this Senate seat from red to blue,” […]
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune is staring down a confirmation backlog of more than 130 nominees — with President Donald Trump pressing hard for progress this week. Democrats could theoretically help expedite a pre-recess flurry of confirmations, but without more details from Republicans, they are so far holding out. “There are some that are bipartisan […]
Staff for Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley met Monday with lawyers for a third whistleblower testifying against Emil Bove, President Donald Trump’s nominee to sit on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals whose confirmation vote could be scheduled for as soon as Tuesday. Grassley said in a brief interview his team found out about […]
Senators are racing the clock to make a dent in both the government funding process and President Donald Trump’s backlog of nominees before heading home for August recess. Senate Majority Leader John Thune is hoping to get the first appropriations package through the chamber by the end of this week, with lawmakers on the hook […]
A growing number of Democrats from across the party’s ideological spectrum are speaking out about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, calling for the Trump administration to intervene in the Israel-Hamas war amid warnings from global leaders and international relief groups that the situation in the war-torn strip has reached a breaking point. The barrage of […]
A lawyer for Ghislaine Maxwell said his client is still deciding whether she will honor a congressional subpoena demanding her testimony next month before House lawmakers. “We have to make a decision about whether she will do that or not,” said David Oscar Markus, an attorney for Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker and co-conspirator of […]
Republican Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama is sounding the alarm about “the slow disbursement rate” of National Institutes of Health funding included in the March spending bill signed by President Donald Trump. Britt, who serves as chair of the Senate Appropriations homeland subcommittee, led a letter Friday with 13 of her GOP colleagues to White […]
A House panel tasked with investigating potential corruption charges against fellow members of Congress on Friday called on a Pennsylvania Republican to divest his family’s holdings from a steel manufacturer, citing concerns around the appearance of wrongdoing. The bipartisan Ethics Committee had been investigating a complaint that Rep. Mike Kelly’s wife bought stock in Cleveland-Cliffs, […]
Congressional Democrats are not changing their economic message to appeal to red district voters this summer; they say President Donald Trump and the Republican Party have done that work for them. Armed with talking points highlighting the cuts to health programs, social services and climate efforts in Trump’s domestic policy megabill, progressives this August recess […]
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to proceed with former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro’s nomination to be the top federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia. Protesters opposing Pirro’s confirmation interrupted the meeting of the panel, shouting that none of the Senate Judiciary Committee members represented the constituents of Washington, D.C., and […]