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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Adelita Grijalva, the Arizona Democrat who won a special election to fill her late father’s vacant congressional seat, was finally sworn in on Wednesday, 50 days after her victory, due to a delay by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana). On the day of her swearing-in, Grijalva became the 218th lawmaker to sign a discharge petition that will force a vote in the House of…
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A congressional vote on whether to release the full Department of Justice (DOJ) files relating to the investigation into accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein will likely take place next week. The scheduled vote comes as several emails from Epstein, provided by his estate following a subpoena from House Oversight Committee Democrats, reveal disturbing details about Trump’s relationship with…
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There’s a popular and recurring chant that echoed throughout the recent No Kings protests several weeks ago: “This is what democracy looks like.” But on Capitol Hill over the past four weeks, during a protracted government shutdown, Republicans have been displaying the opposite. The quiet, moribund center of American government looks anything but like a democracy.
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As the current government shutdown enters its fourth week with no end in sight — making it the second-longest U.S. shutdown in history — two new polls suggest that most Americans are faulting Republicans for the standoff, with a plurality saying they support Democrats in Congress demanding negotiations on health care. President Donald Trump has thus far refused to discuss a possible solution…
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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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