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WASHINGTON — Members of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus voted to remove Rep. Ken Buck (R-Col.) this week, just days before his early exit from Congress. Buck said Freedom Caucus chair Bob Good (R-Va.) called him on Tuesday to deliver the news. “He did open by saying, ‘I’m not happy about having to make this […]
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) said he will not serve out the remainder of his term in the U.S. House and will instead resign in mid-April, cutting House Republicans’ already narrow margin over Democrats even further. “After conversations with my family, I have made the decision to resign my position as a member of the House […]
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Thursday predicted how Donald Trump will eventually go down in history among his own fans. And it won’t be the greatest of legacies for the former president. “I think in five or 10 years there’s not going to be a single person, this is just my prediction, in America […]
WASHINGTON — Republicans introduced a pair of censure resolutions against Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) on Monday after the House rejected a similar measure last week. A resolution by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) slams Tlaib for alleged “antisemitic activity and sympathizing with terrorist organizations” because of her public statements criticizing Israel. Another measure, by Rep. […]
In a preview on Tuesday of his interview with Donald Trump’s former press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, Johnson said he wasn’t “surprised” that people are digging up information about his past. McEnany asked Johnson for his thoughts on being characterized as a “religious fundamentalist” by former White House press secretary Jen Psaki and other critics. “Look, […]
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), public intellectual Cornel West, and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are presenting three very different alternatives to backing President Joe Biden’s 2024 reelection bid for voters on the left of the American political spectrum. Heck, they aren’t even running in the same race: Phillips is challenging Biden in the Democratic […]
Rep. Earl Blumenauer, a progressive Democrat who has represented Portland, Oregon, since 1996, announced Monday that he plans to retire at the end of his term. Blumenauer shared his plans with Willamette Week, telling the outlet: “I’m not certain that two more years in Congress in this climate is the best way to deal with […]
PAGOSA SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Retreating from the turmoil in Washington, D.C., Rep. Lauren Boebert arrived in bucolic southwest Colorado to turmoil of a different sort — the lingering impact of an embarrassing moment when she was caught on tape vaping and groping with a date during a musical production of “Beetlejuice.” The scandal threw […]
Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) described new House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as an “extremist MAGA Republican,” and remembered a telling exchange she says she had with him after the violent Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. “The secret to the success of Mike Johnson ascending to the speakership, after about a 24-hour run, is that very few […]