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ANALYSIS — Eight years ago, President Donald Trump’s mediocre job approval rating created a difficult national political environment for Republicans, who lost more than 40 seats in the House.
A House committee recommended holding Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress on Wednesday, a key step on a path that could lead to criminal charges against the high-profile Democrats.
Five years after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, a handful of Democratic House members and Capitol Police officers are among those still seeking to use civil lawsuits to hold President Donald Trump accountable
↵↵More recently, former President Bill Clinton delivered one December national address. That came on Dec. 8, 1993, to mark the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
↵↵And throughout this year, the White House has been testing the boundaries of that 1974 law with various funding freezes that the GAO has found to be illegal.
With Democrats in control the last two years, Smith has assembled talking points to slam their tax and spending packages, which he said have been used in both chambers after senators he’s personally
During the Trump administration — including two years of unified GOP control in the 115th Congress — federal spending grew every year, even before accounting for about $4 trillion in COVID-19 relief spending
Meanwhile, a group of House progressives, after years of warning that former President Donald Trump was dangerously trying to expand the powers of the presidency, want to give President Joe Biden
A tweet from White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki stated that “It has always been the decision of any Supreme Court Justice if and when they decide to retire, and how they want to announce it, and that
Since being elected to the House in 1994, she has seen three impeachments. President Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998, and Trump was impeached twice, in 2019 and 2021.
Reid, a Democrat, was first elected to the House in 1982, before moving to the Senate four years later.
Bush entered the White House with his party in “control” of the chamber, thanks to Vice President Dick Cheney’s tie-breaking vote.
The House voted 221-209 to send the measure to President Joe Biden.
Dole held the title from January 1985 until June 1996, when he resigned from Congress to focus on being that year’s GOP challenger to President Bill Clinton.
‘Spending way too much’ Wherever the Democrats in the delegation run, their party’s control of both chambers and the White House means they’ll be responsible for the economy on the campaign trail
Despite Emanuel’s years as a skilled and ruthless practitioner of partisan politics in Washington, including as a top House Democrat and as President Barack Obama’s first chief of staff, his nomination
With lawmakers and the White House careening toward the diciest debt limit confrontation since the Obama administration-GOP battles of 2011 and 2013, the possibility is real that the U.S. government
During the last few weeks the White House was attempting to get at least one GOP senator to support Tanden’s nomination to offset the loss of Manchin.
Bush (245) or Bill Clinton (104) over their entire eight-year terms. This was a function of McConnell’s priorities, but also of Democratic resistance.
Sanders and Tanden, a former aide to both Hillary and Bill Clinton, have sparred in the past on a series of policy disputes, complicating her path to confirmation.