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early and often
Dec. 22, 2024
What Happened to Texas Congresswoman Kay Granger? The retiring representative, whose last House vote was in July, is suffering from dementia and her son says she moved to a senior living facility.
early and often
Dec. 21, 2024
The Republican Party Is Out of Control Mike Johnson can’t keep his conference together and Trump can’t scare them into submission. Can the GOP be governed?
we’ll do it live
Dec. 21, 2024
Congress Averts Government Shutdown: How It Happened The shutdown was averted on Friday after the House voted to back a new CR without the debt-ceiling increase Trump demanded.
early and often
Nov. 12, 2024
Tiny GOP Congressional Majorities Are Perilous for Trump Obamacare repeal foundered during the first Trump administration despite a GOP trifecta. Disunity could hamper his second term, too.
early and often
May 7, 2024
MTG Push to Oust Johnson Is MAGA Theater, Not a Real Threat It’s clear Speaker Johnson will keep his gavel for now. But he wants to avoid relying on Democrats, and MTG needs a symbolic partial victory.
early and often
Apr. 20, 2024
Why Mike Johnson Finally Ditched Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Far Right “I thought it was a profile in courage to do the right thing and be on the right side of history,” explained one House GOP colleague.
another one bites the dust
Mar. 22, 2024
The Republican House Majority Is Dwindling to Almost Nothing Thanks to another imminent resignation, Speaker Johnson will soon be handing on by a thread.
early and often
Oct. 13, 2023
What’s Worse: MAGA Speaker Jim Jordan or No Speaker at All? Jordan is an extremist who will probably shut down the government. But making him Speaker may be the only way to end the House GOP’s slow-motion riot.
early and often
Oct. 13, 2023
The House Republicans Are in a Hell of Their Own Making All they need to do is elect a Speaker. The one thing they definitely can’t do is agree on a Speaker.
early and often
Oct. 9, 2023
The Race for Speaker Is About to Get Real Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan face off in the Capitol Thunderdome. Here’s how they match up and who else might win the gavel if chaos ensues again.
early and often
Oct. 3, 2023
Matt Versus Goliath How a nuisance became a mortal threat to Kevin McCarthy’s Speakership.
early and often
Oct. 1, 2023
Kevin McCarthy Traded One Crisis For Another The Speaker will now face a “motion to vacate” by Florida congressman Matt Gaetz and his hard-right allies in the House.
government shutdown
Sept. 30, 2023
Government Shutdown Live Updates: Shutdown Averted The Senate overwhelmingly passed the House’s stopgap spending bill, which means the government will be funded for another 45 days.
The Debt Ceiling Bill Faces Its First Test: Live Updates Before the deal goes to a full House vote, it has to pass a GOP-controlled committee where far-right members could potentially slow things down.
debt ceiling hostage crisis
May 28, 2023
debt ceiling hostage crisis
May 25, 2023
the debt ceiling
May 4, 2023
How Biden Learned to Love the Debt-Ceiling Crisis He has turned a chronic political headache into a winning issue.
America’s Labor Shortages Are Good, Actually The upside of longer lines and faltering customer service.
early and often
Jan. 16, 2023
The GOP Is More Dependent Than Ever on Democratic Dysfunction As the Republican base has grown more blue-collar, the party’s agenda has remained plutocratic.
the national interest
Jan. 13, 2023
house arrest
Jan. 7, 2023
Kevin McCarthy’s Tarnished Triumph He finally got the Speakership he wanted, but at what cost?
house arrest
Jan. 6, 2023
This Is Not What Democracy Looks Like Contrary to the claims of conservative pundits, the GOP’s mutiny against McCarthy is not a sign of the party’s democratic vitality.
house arrest
Jan. 5, 2023
The GOP Is More Ungovernable Than Ever Before Even with Fox News, Donald Trump, and the GOP Establishment united behind Kevin McCarthy, House Republicans still won’t toe the party line.
early and often
Nov. 17, 2022
GOP Leadership Fight in Congress Shows a Party of Warlords A civil war started this week with convoluted battle lines.
early and often
Oct. 30, 2022
The Man in the MAGA Middle Kevin McCarthy’s campaign to be Speaker means no enemies to the right, left, or center in his caucus.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Was Surprise Speaker at White-Nationalist Event The congresswoman delivered remarks at the America First Political Action Conference on Friday, shortly after a round of applause for Vladimir Putin.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Apologizes for Holocaust Gaffe, But Not for Her Ignorance More than three weeks after her deeply offensive comparison of mask mandates to the Holocaust, Greene shows how little she’s learned.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Caucus Promoting ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Values Didn’t Last Long The GOP representative walked back a proposal to form an America First caucus after Republican leaders pushed back against her nativist language.
Matt Gaetz’s Colleagues Drop the Dirt on Him Lawmakers describe Gaetz’s alleged drug use and incidents in which he showed nude photos of women he slept with to colleagues on the House floor.
the republican party
Mar. 3, 2021
The GOP’s Establishment Is More Populist Than Its Trumpists House Republicans are more staunchly pro-Trump — and anti-minimum-wage hikes – than Mitch McConnell is.
Much-Maligned Congressional Earmarks Are Coming Back The Tea Party movement temporarily killed them — but only temporarily.
marjorie taylor greene
Feb. 3, 2021
Kevin McCarthy Decides to Protect Marjorie Taylor Greene The top House Republican gave his conspiratorial, pro-violence colleague a slap-on-the-wrist and said he’ll fight efforts to take her off committees.
2020 elections
Nov. 4, 2020
Republicans Make Shocking Gains in the House Democrats were expected to win several seats, but will instead lose a handful. Nancy Pelosi now faces a potential revolt.
17 Republicans Refuse to Condemn QAnon in House Vote They did so even after a Democratic colleague was targeted with death threats by the conspiracy’s followers a few days earlier.
QAnon Booster Marjorie Greene Continues March Toward Congress It’s hard to be too extreme in pockets of red America like Georgia’s 14th District, where Greene just won the Republican primary.
Republicans Are Trying to Force the House to Vote in Person The “reopen America” message trumps generations of anti-Washington rhetoric.
impeachment
Jan. 24, 2020
Republicans Warming to Idea of Calling Their Own Trump Trial Witnesses The thinking is that if Democrats get John Bolton into the dock, the president should get an impeachment witness he wants, like Hunter or Joe Biden.
impeachment
Jan. 21, 2020
Trump Gives House Republicans Participation Trophy As ‘Adjunct’ Trial Team Mark Meadows, Doug Collins, and others won’t get to rant and rave and cut capers in the Senate—but they’ll be honorary members of Trump’s legal squad.
impeachment
Jan. 13, 2020
It’s Time for Pelosi and McConnell to Make Some Big Impeachment Trial Decisions The impeachment trial schedule should be set by week’s end, and the initial skirmishing in the Senate over rules will soon begin.
House Republicans Want to Add Some Crazy to Trump Trial Defense McConnell is struggling to keep Trump’s acquittal minimally dignified, but his president and allies in the House have other ideas.
impeachment
Dec. 18, 2019
Assessing Nancy Pelosi’s Impeachment Wins and Losses The final verdict on this skillful Speaker’s strategy won’t come until after the election, but she’s already achieved some goals and failed at others.
impeachment
Dec. 17, 2019
McConnell Pretends to Defer to House on Impeachment Evidence McConnell’s two-front war with both parties to keep a lid on a Senate impeachment trial reaches a new level of cynicism.
Van Drew Switch Gives House Republicans Exactly One Pro-Choice Member Anti-abortion activists had driven pro-choice House Republicans into extinction. If Trump backs Van Drew, that might annoy them.
impeachment
Dec. 16, 2019
Schumer and McConnell Play Chess Over Impeachment Trial Rules Both parties want witnesses the other side opposes. Despite the posturing, a short trial with no testimony from John Bolton or the Bidens is likely.
impeachment
Dec. 13, 2019
McConnell Flattering Trump Into Submission on Scope of Senate Impeachment Trial Mitch knows the best way to turn Trump around is to let him think it’s his own idea.
2020 elections
Nov. 11, 2019
New York’s Peter King Is 20th House Republican to Announce Retirement The Long Island representative had a reputation as a GOP moderate, but there was nothing moderate about his bouts of Trump-style xenophobia.
impeachment
Oct. 23, 2019
Number of House Republicans Who Back Impeachment Inquiry Returns to Zero Mark Amodei, a Nevada congressman, appeared to come out in favor of the House impeachment inquiry last week — but then he backed off.
ukraine scandal
Sept. 26, 2019
GOP Divided Over How Enthusiastically to Cover for Trump’s Corruption on Ukraine Some Republicans want to pretend that the whistleblower complaint is concerning but not damning — others, that Trump’s corruption is actually good.
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