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Homeland Chairman Green reverses course, will seek reelection
I will be running for re-election so I can be here on Day 1 next year to help President Trump end this border crisis once and for all," Green said, citing a quote from Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
US to relist Houthis as terrorist group with special designation
"Yet, even after months of unprovoked Houthi attacks on U.S. service members, U.S. interests, and global shipping, the Biden administration only re-designated the Houthis as SDGTs — not as a FTO.
Cardin, Hagerty aim to fund modernization panel for US diplomacy
Cardin chairs the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee overseeing the management of the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Congress · 117th Congress
Compromise veterans bill passes House, heads back to Senate
That buyout money would normally be taxed as income, so the Senate sponsors wanted to make that tax-free.
Congress · 117th Congress
Amended veterans toxic exposure bill teed up in House
The alternative would have been to jump through the traditional procedural hoops in the Senate this month to get the blue slip problem fixed, including a motion to request the return of the Senate-passed
Policy · 117th Congress
Immigration likely to take lower profile in Biden speech after mixed year
However, “you don’t feel the changes on the ground,” she said, stressing the need for broader re-imagination of the system. “Serious repair needs to be done to the hull of the ship.”
Opinion · 117th Congress
Biden’s dug a hole for himself, but he keeps digging
Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., called for a “strategic pause” on Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending package, Chuck Schumer, sounding more like the captain of the Titanic than Senate majority leader, rejected
Congress · 117th Congress
Veteran lawmakers cast wide blame for Afghanistan collapse
“Successive leaders of both parties have failed to hold the votes for re-authorizing this conflict over the last two decades. For that, all of us in Congress should be ashamed.”
Campaigns · 117th Congress
At the Races: DC, where TX Dems summer
Vance entered the crowded Republican primary for the open Senate seat in Ohio.
Campaigns · 117th Congress
At the Races: S 1 and done
Chris Larson in the Democratic Senate primary.
Congress · 117th Congress
Biden’s Afghanistan decision triggers worries on Capitol Hill
“But I would urge Americans, at that point: that’s not a time for us to get emotional and say we need to turn back around and re-engage the war with the Taliban.
Congress · 116th Congress
In defiance of Trump, Senate overrides defense veto
The long-anticipated vote comes two days before the start of a new Congress, avoiding what would have been a lengthy process of re-drafting the measure in the new year.
Congress · 116th Congress
Margaret Kibben to become first woman to serve as House chaplain
Her arrival on Capitol Hill will mean that both the House and Senate chaplains will be retired chief chaplains of the Navy, with longtime Senate Chaplain Barry Black having led the Navy’s chaplains
Campaigns · 116th Congress
At the Races: Ready for Zoomsgiving?
The battle for the Senate rages on in Georgia (for more on that, scroll down to our special report), as Trump refuses to concede the presidential election.
Congress · 116th Congress
Senators grill Navy nominee on leadership
President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the fourth acting or confirmed Navy secretary in the last six months acknowledged a crisis in the service at a Senate hearing Thursday, as some Democratic senators
Congress · 116th Congress
Who’s holding the impeachment hearings? Meet the House Intelligence Committee
Schiff, D-California (Chairman)California’s 28th District: L.A. suburbsFirst elected: 2008Before Congress: Served in the state Senate and worked as an assistant U.S. attorney2018 election: Schiff won
Congress · 116th Congress
Impeachment news roundup: Oct. 31
The Trump-Pence reelection campaign sharply criticized the measure, saying “voters will punish Democrats who support this farce and President Trump will be easily re-elected.”
Campaigns · 116th Congress
Texas Senate 2020: MJ Hegar challenges John Cornyn
Carter had won re-election by 22 points two years earlier while President Donald Trump was carrying the seat by 13 points.
Congress · 116th Congress
The insiders: Roll Call’s people to watch in 2019
Martha McSally lost a close Senate election November but was appointed to the state’s other Senate seat the following month. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)Sen.