“Congressional investigations — replete with camera-savvy grandstanding antics — are the hallmark of divided government, as well as a time-tested ax for chipping away at presidential approval ratings. Republicans are betting their stagecraft will outweigh the fact that MORE
From NBC: California is finally getting a wide-open Democratic primary that lives up to its progressive reputation, with at least four liberals gunning for the Senate seat long occupied by Dianne Feinstein — even though MORE
Remember Herman Cain’s ludicrous, ‘Nine-Nine-Nine’ flat tax plan? He’s gone; dead. That ‘no worse than the flu,’ COVID-19 removed him from this planet. But, his ‘legacy’ or a variation of his flat tax plan lives MORE
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell is forcing Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy to take the lead on negotiating the looming debt ceiling standoff. “I can’t imagine any debt ceiling provision passed out of the MORE
Setting up what proves to be another battle in the Clown House and a clash with Puppet Head, Qevin McQarthy,, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has formally recommended that Reps. Adam B. Schiff and Eric MORE
Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) has denied reports that he competed in a drag queen beauty pageant in Brazil as he faces a slew of federal investigations into accusations of lying and possible issues with campaign fundraising. The MORE
While two dodo birds of a feather used to flock together, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are now beyond frenemies and became openly hostile to each other — behind the closed doors of the MORE
The McCarthy caucus used their first vote in the 118th Congress to cut funding for the IRS. The bill is essentially dead on arrival thanks to Democratic control of the Senate, and a promised veto MORE
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After Kevin McCarthy finally secured the votes (after 15 tries) to become the US’ Speaker of the House, minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, delivered his first and exceptionally inspirational speech. Then came Qevie’s speech, which started MORE
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) was elected Senate president pro tempore Tuesday, becoming the first woman to hold the job since its inception and putting her third in the line of presidential succession. The job has MORE
The twice impeached, one term, so called president, TFG, took to his Truth Social account and truthed out an all caps post demanding the chaos caucus elect Kevin McCarthy as the new Speaker of the MORE
The incoming GOP majority removed the metal detectors placed outside the chamber of the House just days before the second anniversary of the Capitol riot. Magnetometers were installed outside the House chambers in January 2021 MORE
New York Times: WASHINGTON — Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland, announced on Wednesday that he had been diagnosed with a “serious but curable” form of cancer. Mr. Raskin, 60, who is a member of MORE
It’s official — Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema is changing her party affiliation to independent. Sinema says she will not caucus with Republicans and suggested that she intends to vote the same way she has for MORE
To prevent Uncle Clarence and the rest of the Extreme Court from eroding more of our rights and freedoms, the US Senate just voted to pass the Respect for Marriage Act. And…it was all ‘bipartisany’ with a MORE
Remember when the House of Representatives under GQP control spent years investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi and found no wrongdoing by then-secretary of State Hillary Clinton? Welp, send in the clowns because when MORE
After the GQP regained the House of Representatives in their ‘Bigly Red Wave’ that never materialized, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to announce her future plan as the Democratic leader or to step aside and pass MORE
In the event the Extreme Court overturns landmark rulings in cases like Obergefell, which found same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, or Lawrence v. Texas, which found a constitutional right to sexual intimacy, or Loving MORE
Gym Jordan, who has spent many years in Congress and has yet to sponsor a bill that actually gets signed into law, is poised to become the head of the House Judiciary Committee if the MORE
Friday, the House of Representatives passed a signature piece of President Biden’s agenda, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The House voted 220-207, with no Republicans joining Democrats in supporting the act. It now heads to Biden, MORE
The U.S. Senate voted nearly unanimously to allow Sweden and Finland to join the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) on Wednesday. Josh Hawley voted no, and Rand Paul voted present, but an overwhelmingly bipartisan Senate MORE
While Chuck Schumer struck a climate and tax deal with Joe Manchin on July 27, Kyrsten Sinema was left in the dark. Seven days later, Senate Democrats are still trying to find out where Sinema MORE
The U.S. Senate finally passed the PACT Act, which will expand “lifesaving health care benefits for Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. The 86-11 vote came after Republicans agreed to lift MORE
After Uncle Clarence stated the Extreme Court should overturn Griswold v. Connecticut, the landmark case that prohibited states from banning contraceptives, the House of Representatives will vote Thursday on the Right to Contraception Act, a bill that MORE