House Democrats To Move To Force Vote On Ukraine Aid
Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) has announced that House Democrats will be introducing a discharge petition to force a vote on Ukraine aid.
Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) has announced that House Democrats will be introducing a discharge petition to force a vote on Ukraine aid.
In contrast to the chaos among House Republicans, House Democrats renominated Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) in less than 10 minutes.
As House Republicans tear each other to pieces, House Democrats have told all members that they must be in attendance next week to vote for Hakeem Jeffries to be Speaker.
A series of court cases that are leading to newly drawn congressional maps could have Democrats in a position to take back the House before a single vote is cast in 2024.
House Democrats are warning that there will be a big problem if Republicans try to put social safety net program work requirements into the debt limit bill.
House Judiciary and Intelligence Committee Democrats responded to Rep. Jim Jordan’s distortions and lies about the intelligence community and the 2020 election by releasing emails and transcripts.
House Democrats have been working for months on a secret long-shot strategy to go around Kevin McCarthy and raise the debt limit.
House Ways and Means Democrats have requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigate the IRS for not auditing Trump.
House Democrats are looking at several strategies including a gas tax holiday and a windfall profit tax on oil companies to lower gas prices.
House Democrats have put paid family leave back into their spending bill. The bill is considered crucial to codifying the Democratic agenda and to delivering a victory for President Joe Biden and his administration amid sagging poll numbers. The paid family leave provision is popular but nearly tanked the bill after Senator Joe Manchin (D-W….
House Democrats have revealed a comprehensive reform package designed to prevent presidential corruption and curtail abuse of executive powers. The “Protect Our Democracy Act” gives Congress “more oversight over investigations, enhances protections for whistleblowers, and says that a president can only remove an inspector general at an agency for cause,” according to Axios. “It also…
Nancy Pelosi has issued a stark warning about Donald Trump’s attacks on the U.S Postal Service. She told Congressional Democrats that undermining the post office put democracy at risk. The Speaker of the House made the comments in a letter calling the chamber back into session. Democratic lawmakers will attempt to address the crisis at…
The stock markets have tanked pretty hard due to concerns surrounding the spread of coronavirus across the globe. Nevertheless, President Donald Trump is still trying to promote an optimistic view about what’s happening, economically, when it comes to the disease’s impact. When asked on Thursday if he was planning to sign any sort of economic…
Speaking to reporters after a meeting of House Democrats on Capitol Hill, Pelosi said: “No one is above the law, including the president of the United States. And we believe that the president of the United States is engaged in a cover-up.”
Calls are growing among Democrats for the House to open an impeachment investigation into Donald Trump.
Since becoming Speaker of the House in January, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has had to balance the goals of far-left progressives in her party with moderate Democrats who won districts in 2018 that Donald Trump had carried in 2016. And, in ways that have surprised a lot of skeptics, she has done an excellent job…
A battle is brewing between Democrats in Congress and Attorney General William Barr over access to grand jury testimony, which is some of the most sensitive evidence obtained in special counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation. Barr said he is still reviewing Mueller‘s entire final report, although he issued a summary of the report’s final conclusions. He…
It was once rumored that Donald Trump would throw Jared Kushner under the bus, but now it appears that the opposite may be happening. According to reports that came out last night, Trump’s son-in-law, who is also a senior White House adviser, is now cooperating with the investigations of House Democrats. Jared Kushner is cooperating…
Reports from Capitol Hill this morning indicate that House Democrats will be aggressively seeking Donald Trump’s business tax returns along with his personal returns. Democratic lawmakers expect these business returns to uncover what they believe are the president’s extensive conflicts of interest, including possible dealings with Russia. They also believe the business filings will disclose…
Donald Trump has been attacking Bob Mueller’s special counsel investigation for nearly two years, calling it “a witch hunt†and “a hoax.† But according to the Associated Press, he may try to claim victory and upend Robert Mueller’s report no matter what it says. Mueller may issue a report any day now, and as we wait the…
Donald Trump’s White House has completely ignored House Democrat requests for documents, and the administration expects to get away with it reported POLITICO this morning. House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) wrote to the White House last month demanding information about Trump’s national emergency declaration. Nadler’s February 22 deadline came and went without a response…
Donald Trump’s biographer thinks our current president is about to go through hell. Writing in Bloomberg,Tim O’Brien has predicted that the coming months will be excruciatingly painful for Trump, as House Democrats conduct a thorough probe of his personal finances. O’Brien is considered an expert on Trump’s finances after doing more than a decade of…
Nancy Pelosi’s newest battle is not against Republicans, but against forces that are tearing apart the unity of Democrats in the House. And Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren are now involved as well. The three U.S. Senators all came to the defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar for her remarks that critics…
Democrats in the House of Representatives are planning to roll out a lengthy series of investigations into President Donald Trump’s finances and his administration over the next few months as part of a long-term strategy to remove Trump from office, Axios has reported this morning. And although impeachment is certainly one option Speaker Nancy Pelosi…
The Associated Press (AP) is reporting this morning that Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are beginning several new investigations into Donald Trump as they prepare for “a post-Robert Mueller world.†No matter what happens with Mueller’s final Russia report, a half-dozen House committee chairmen are planning to “flood the administration with document requests,…
Powerful chairmen of oversight committees in the House of Representatives are preparing to force Donald Trump to disclose his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin according to a new report from POLITICO. POLITICO reported this morning that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Eliot Engel (D-NY) have been consulting…
Our unhinged president Donald Trump went on Twitter again this morning to vent his anger and frustration at special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Trump has been losing it ever since his threats against House Democrats in his State of the Union speech didn’t work. The morning after…
Yesterday House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff announced a broad investigation by his committee into all aspects of Donald Trump, opening up an intense and prolonged battle between Congress and the White House. The statement released by Schiff stated that it would continue the Russian probe but would also include an examination into “whether any…
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and other House Democrats are doing everything they can to re-open the United States government. They are taking important steps to increase the pressure on Donald Trump and other Republicans to end the shutdown impasse over border wall funding. Pelosi and Democrats believe they have a winning hand in…
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif. confirmed Donald Trump’s worst fears on Thursday when he said “We’re going take an MRI to his finances.†Swalwell works with Rep. Adam Schiff on the House Intelligence Committee and is also on the House Judiciary Committee, soon to be chaired by Rep. Jerry Nadler. Both Schiff and Nadler have promised…
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has promised that the House of Representatives will pass legislation next year that will put Dreamers — young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children — on a pathway to citizenship. Pelosi is attempting to secure her position as Speaker of the House when her party retakes control…
The 2018 midterm results show that the American people have rejected Donald Trump, and his agenda. And as Senator Bernie Sanders says, they’ve also rejected “his racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia and religious bigotry.†Since Democrats will take over control of the House of Representatives in January, Senator Sanders believes it is time for progressives to…
Everyone knows that when Democrats take control of the House in January they will have a massive backlog of Trump scandals to investigate. But until now nobody had come up with the exact number of scandals that are out there waiting to be investigated. In a new report this morning, however, Axios actually discloses that…
Top Democrats in the House are reportedly planning to invite Robert Mueller to testify on Capitol Hill in televised hearings if President Trump takes action to fire the special counsel and shut down the Russia investigation. Dems plan to bring in Mueller for televised hearings if Trump fires him: report https://t.co/HBJRIvdqwu pic.twitter.com/y2hLgn3Fpu — The Hill…
If they win a majority in November, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives will re-open the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. They would like to investigate a lot of other things about Donald Trump also, including his family, his business associates and his cabinet members. But they will have to be…
The list of areas that Republicans expect Democrats to investigate if they take back the House has leaked, and it numbers more than 100 items. Trump’s White House is totally unprepared for this level of oversight.
Democrats have stepped up to the plate and are trying to put billions of dollars toward a crisis that deserves more than just lip service.Â
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi praised the “courageous voices” of the people taking to the streets to demand answers and facts, saying House Democrats were behind them and would not “stand down.”
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi shared this video on Friday, and in it House Democrats show just how easy it will be for Democratic House candidates to run against Donald Trump in 2018.
“To say that the goal is not to win elections but for people to embrace his ideas is disconnected from what we are trying to do here.”
Things are so bad that House Democrats see a big opportunity to expand their seats thanks to Trump, and they are grabbing it.
During this historic, courageous sit in — Democrats found not only their spine but the knowledge that they carry moral authority on this issue — House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) praised Congressmen John Lewis.
Reports are circulating that the Senate police have been moved to the House to potentially forcibly remove the Democratic protesters who are occupying the House of Representatives.
“These laws splinter families and deny judicial review. Twenty years is too long to cling to broken and morally bankrupt policies.â€
Republicans in Congress will get to voice their displeasure of any deal on Iran’s nuclear program, but House Democrats have enough votes to sustain a veto from President Obama if Republicans disapprove of the deal.
House Democratic leaders have flat out rejected John Boehner’s offer to be props on his special Benghazi committee. After meeting, Democrats called the offer a slap in the face.
The cost of voting Republican continues to grow as House Ways and Means Democrats determined that Republicans have cost the economy $3 billion in less than two months by blocking an extension of unemployment benefits.
Boehner may face serious repercussions from “true conservatives” in the tea party movement, but that is the price he pays for climbing in bed with morons and imbeciles who went to Washington to destroy the government that Boehner has been all-in for over the past three years.
Democrats Sandy Levin and Elijah Cummings demanded to know how much Issa’s IRS ‘investigations’ are costing the taxpayers. They suggest the total is “well into the millions of dollars.”
The House Democrats plan is founded on creating jobs and a thriving middle class that will never see the light of day because creating anything positive is anathema to destructive Republicans.