Capitol Police pay turns contentious as shutdown drags on
Minor confrontations have broken out in the hallways, and a protest Tuesday night saw a run-in between a Democratic lawmaker and an officer.
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Minor confrontations have broken out in the hallways, and a protest Tuesday night saw a run-in between a Democratic lawmaker and an officer.
Schumer," Collins said in a statement.  Troop pay at risk If a fix doesn’t happen, the current shutdown would be the first of its kind in which military personnel have gone without pay.Â
Holding up a printout, he confronted Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries over his refusal to sign on to a bipartisan proposal that would extend expiring Affordable Care Act tax subsidies by one year.
create a working bipartisan majority in the Senate willing to stand against Trump’s power grab.Â
The frozen funding in play was largely for the National Institutes of Health.
And his vice president had a tough act to follow after his boss admitted he asked a group of House Republicans if he should try terminating Powell over his refusal to lower interest rates.
In announcing their retirements, both men lamented the rise of tribal politics in the Trump era.Â
House Republicans continued to take aim at self-rule in the District of Columbia on Tuesday, advancing a bill meant to block it from being a so-called sanctuary city.
"I’d gotten off of work from my last 16-hour shift, went home and slept for a couple hours, and then we got in the car and we came out here," he said in the cafeteria of the Longworth House Office Building
Their extreme arguments, in our view, don’t hold water," Ford said.
events resulting in the assassination attempt that day," the report states.
One famous example he gives is Thomas Jefferson’s initial refusal in 1803 to buy gunboats to patrol the Mississippi River, for fear of upsetting negotiations with the French over what became the Louisiana
Senate Democrats have said they plan to quickly dismiss or otherwise dispense with the two articles of the historic impeachment of a sitting Cabinet secretary for "willful and systemic refusal to comply
The House adopted two impeachment articles in February, alleging "willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law" and "breach of public trust" on a 214-213 vote.
of their heedless refusal to fund Ukraine.
"The Board’s refusal to incorporate the greater YSU community in its decision making flouts basic values of transparency, accountability, and democratic participation," they wrote.
A reporter asked Johnson about his refusal in January 2021 to vote to certify the 2020 presidential election.
Now that the wholly avoidable debt ceiling nightmare is over, after a 97-day delay caused by President Joe Biden’s initial refusal to negotiate, it’s fair to ask whether he has learned anything from his
His nephew, Ian, died of an overdose from fentanyl at age 24 after spending time between halfway houses, in the criminal justice system and in other treatments.
So, no, I’m not really in a position of joining any more groups right now.