On Wednesday evening, the United States House of Representatives passed, with bipartisan support, a war powers resolution that seeks to curtail President Donald Trump’s continued war on Iran. The measure passed with 215 votes in favor versus 208 opposed. Four Republican lawmakers joined with Democrats to pass the resolution, following two weeks of GOP leadership delaying the vote.
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On Tuesday, May 19, the U.S. House passed H.R. 2616, the “Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act,” by a vote of 217-198. The bill would hand the Trump administration enormous leverage to strip federal funding from any school that “teaches or advances concepts” related to transgender people, codifying into federal law the anti-trans definitions from Trump’s executive order 14168…
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After four US Senate Republicans on Tuesday helped Democrats advance a war powers resolution intended to halt President Donald Trump’s illegal war on Iran, GOP leadership in the House of Representatives canceled a similar vote on Wednesday, and again on Thursday. Progressive and Democratic Party leaders in the House were quick to call out Republican leadership, including Rep. Mike Johnson (R…
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Amid pressure from both Democrats and members of his own party, Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (Louisiana) insisted he was in favor of stricter rules regarding insider trading in Congress, but stopped short of expressing support for an outright ban on stock trading for lawmakers. The statement from Johnson, reported on by Punchbowl News’s Jake Sherman…
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On Tuesday, the House of Representatives and the Senate passed legislation requiring the release of Department of Justice (DOJ) files on the investigation into accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Although Epstein died by suicide in 2019, the files are still relevant given his many connections to prominent figures, including politicians like former President Bill Clinton and current…
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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) has formally filed a lawsuit against the House of Representatives over Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-Louisiana) refusal to seat Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Arizona). Grijalva won a special election exactly one month ago. Yet she has not yet been granted access to her seat or offices in Washington, with Johnson arguing that she shouldn’t be sworn in…
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