In final month of the session, Congress looks to clean up loose ends, prepare for Trump
Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., Trump’s pick for ambassador to the United Nations, have already started making the rounds.
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Photos of the week ending November 15, 2024
-elect Sam T. Liccardo, D-Calif., talks with the media on Tuesday outside the AC Hotel on Capitol Hill as new members arrived for orientation week.
Murky situation continues after Senate Democrats huddle with Biden campaign brass
Thomas R. Carper, from Biden’s home state of Delaware, said Biden has "got a great story to tell" and simply needs to show more gusto "in telling it," adding: "We need to be providing a lot of echo."
House Democrats still split on Biden after high-stakes meeting
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who has spent months defending Trump, took stock of what he called "the smallest crowd ever assembled for a Republican press conference."
Schumer plans vote on border security bill that GOP blocked
Murphy, D-Conn., James Lankford, R-Okla., and Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz. — worked through weekends and recesses to reach a compromise.
Democrats prepare to ride to Johnson’s rescue, gingerly
Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., said Thursday he was pushing for the rule change.
Lifeline for foreign aid package, speaker’s job up to Democrats
Thomas Massie, R-Ky., announced after the meeting that he is now on board with the effort by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., to boot Johnson from the speaker’s chair.
Democratic lawmakers seek ways to change Israeli approach in Gaza
If House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., decides to bring the measure up under suspension of the rules, there might be enough votes to clear the bill without reopening for changes to the Israel and Palestinian-related
Biden, ‘Big Four’ to meet as spending talks sputter
"[I]t is clear now that House Republicans need more time to sort themselves out," Schumer wrote.
House GOP approach to Israel aid risks eroding US leverage
New Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is pushing a bill that could hit the floor as soon as Thursday that proposes sending over $14 billion in aid to Israel.
House uncertainty puts shutdown specter right back on the table
Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as speaker, lawmakers and aides in both chambers believe.
Colleagues honor Feinstein as death leaves Senate vacancy
Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the ranking member on the Judiciary Committee who formally objected when Schumer tried to make the temporary replacement, said circumstances would be different in the event of a
Why there are no heroes in this shutdown showdown
John Cornyn, R-Texas, just squinted inside a Capitol elevator when asked if he could imagine a path around a shutdown. Spoiler alert: He did not offer a potential way out.
Senate dress code spat continues: Avoid a shutdown and I’ll wear a suit, Fetterman says
Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, as she headed to the first votes of the week on Monday. "I think we’ve got to maintain a level of decorum."
Campaigns · 118th Congress
At the Races: Inflation confrontation
Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Rep. Ami Bera, D-Calif., paid down loans this year they made more than a decade ago, while Rep.
Campaigns · 118th Congress
At the Races: It was so nice, they’re running twice
“[T]he Republican Party is increasingly defined by dismay over cultural and demographic change, which is leading to aging in its ranks and is surely compelling DeSantis and Haley to idealize the past,”
Jeffries: GOP ‘driving us toward a government shutdown’
members and their far-right allies last week shut down the chamber floor after opposing a rule for several bills they supported over frustrations about the debt and spending deal Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif
Still steaming over debt deal, conservatives derail House action
Chip Roy, R-Texas, referring to the debt limit package. "We warned them not to cut that deal without coming down and sitting down and talk[ing] to us.
Parties moving closer on debt ceiling deal as talks drag on
Garret Graves, R-La., said leaving Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s office just before 7:30 p.m.
Campaigns · 118th Congress
At the Races: Survey says what?
Ron DeSantis in the role of David going up against Trump’s Goliath, columnist John T.