House of Representatives

Hakeem Jeffries Could Become Speaker As Other Republicans Want To Bolt From The House

Hakeem Jeffries Could Become Speaker As Other Republicans Want To Bolt From The House

More House Republicans are fed up and want to immediately leave, if they do, there is a realistic chance that…

3 weeks ago

Hakeem Jeffries Hints That Democrats Might Save Mike Johnson If He Stand Up To Putin GOP

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) suggested that Democrats might help Speaker Johnson save his job if he stands up…

1 month ago

Matt Gaetz Is Trying To Pass A Resolution To Stop Trump From Being Disqualified

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is trying to stop states from disqualifying Trump by passing a resolution in the House declaring…

3 months ago

Outraged Republicans Hand Speaker Mike Johnson An Embarrassing Defeat

A group of far-right conservatives came together and blocked three Republican bills from advancing on the House floor because they…

3 months ago

MAGA Mike Could Become Fired Mike As Johnson Walks Into McCarthy Trap

For all of his talk, Speaker Mike Johnson has proposed a government funding bill that is just like the one…

5 months ago

It Sounds Like Kevin McCarthy Is Trying To Get Matt Gaetz And Nancy Mace Out Of The House

Kevin McCarthy is still bitter and is now trying to get revenge on Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Nancy Mace (R-SC)…

5 months ago

Hakeem Jeffries Starts To Make His Move In House Speaker Chaos

Democratic Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has made it clear to Republicans what they want in exchange for sitting out…

6 months ago

Media Demands Democrats Help an Insurrectionist like Jim Jordan Become Speaker

The media expect Democrats to help Republicans elect insurrectionist Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to be the next Speaker of the…

6 months ago

Model Shows Democrats Could Keep The House With 2018 Level Turnout

The CBS battleground tracker model reveals that if Democratic voters turnout at 2018 levels, they could keep the House.

1 year ago

Pelosi Announces That House Staffers Will Now Be Able to Earn Higher Salaries Than Members of Congress

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced that House staffers will now be able to earn higher salaries than the members…

3 years ago

Two of the Country’s Most Reviled Congressmen Are Suing Sergeant at Arms Over House Metal Detector Rules

Following the January 6th insurrection on the Capitol, Nancy Pelosi decided that there needed to be stricter safety measures in…

3 years ago

Too Little Too Late: Taylor Greene Finally Apologizes After Repeatedly Comparing Mask Rules to the Holocaust

For a freshman congressperson, Marjorie Taylor-Greene is in the news an awful lot. Then again, she likes it that way.…

3 years ago

Congressman Ted Lieu Calls for Matt Gaetz to be Removed From House Judiciary Committee

It has been a wild day for Florida Representative Matt Gaetz. Earlier in they day, many were surprised by rumors…

3 years ago

Representative Cori Bush To Introduce Resolution to Expel Colleagues Who Voted to Overturn Election Result

Representative Cori Bush (D-Mo.), will today introduce a resolution calling for the expulsion of Republican colleagues in the House who…

3 years ago

Pelosi Raises Record-Breaking $39.5 Million for Democrats as Election Approaches

Nancy Pelosi had a record-breaking funding haul for the Democrats in the second quarter of 2020. The numbers are significant…

4 years ago

Ocasio-Cortez Drags Republican Congressman’s Non-Apology for Sexist Slur

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez harshly criticized Ted Yoho on Thursday after he issued a half-hearted apology to her for using insulting language…

4 years ago

Republican Rep. Ted Yoho Gives Half-Hearted Apology for Calling Ocasio-Cortez a “F*cking B*tch”

Ted Yoho apologized to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from the House floor on Wednesday after he called her "disgusting" and used a…

4 years ago

Pelosi Will Require House Committee Members to Wear Masks – Including Republicans

Nancy Pelosi will require members of the House of Representatives who attend committee meetings to wear masks. Her decision follows…

4 years ago

AP: House Dems Begin New Probes That Could End Trump’s Presidency

The Associated Press (AP) is reporting this morning that Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are beginning several new…

5 years ago

Trump: ‘Republicans Should Stop Wasting Their Time On Immigration’

President Donald Trump on Friday posted a tweet telling Republican lawmakers to "stop wasting their time" on immigration legislation. His…

6 years ago

Rachel Maddow Exposes Paul Ryan For Singlehandedly Blocking Dreamer Protections

Donald Trump caused this mess by lifting protections for DACA recipients. Paul Ryan is making it worse by not holding…

6 years ago

Paul Ryan’s Own Staff Applauds Nancy Pelosi After Record-Breaking House Speech

In one speech, she likely did more work than Trump has done all week, and Republicans could do nothing but…

6 years ago

House GOP Puts Politics Over National Security And Votes To Release Phony Memo

In response to the mounting evidence against Donald Trump, Republicans have decided to wage war against the U.S. intelligence community…

6 years ago

House GOP Passes Cynical Spending Bill That Senate Democrats Are Already Planning To Smack Down

Senate Republicans aren't likely to win over enough Democrats to pass their cynical spending bill.

6 years ago

GOP Committing Political Suicide As Two-Thirds Of America Think Tax Proposal Is A Scam

The poll comes as GOP lawmakers have reportedly come to an agreement on a final plan they believe would have…

6 years ago

Trump Aides Privately Terrified That Impeachment Is Inevitable If Democrats Retake The House

Those closest to Trump don't believe he grasps what serious trouble he would be in if Democrats win enough seats…

7 years ago

Trump Officially Commits Political Suicide With Tweet Praising Heartless GOP Health Plan

According to a recent poll, the GOP health care legislation is "the least popular major bill in decades."

7 years ago

House GOP Will Vote To Give Wall Street A Major Handout And Risk Another Great Recession

Republicans in the House of Representatives are about to dismantle financial reforms enacted by President Obama after the Great Recession.

7 years ago

Trump Supporters Make Racist Death Threats Against Congressman Calling For Impeachment

Holding the president accountable for trying to block an investigation – a criminal act – doesn't jive well with Trump's…

7 years ago

Idaho Republican Claims ‘Nobody Dies Because They Don’t Have Access to Health Care’

When told he was mandating the death of people on Medicaid Labrador claimed “That line is so indefensible.' What is…

7 years ago

“This Will Mean Death”: Cory Booker Delivers Emotional Takedown Of GOP Health Care Plan

"This will cost American lives if it ever becomes law. This will mean death, pain, and suffering to people's families."

7 years ago

Rachel Maddow Explains Why The GOP Should Be Terrified Regardless Of The Final Kansas Results

No matter what happens, this is a good night for Democrats in Kansas and across the country.

7 years ago

There is No Disguising the Fact that GOP Health Care Means Just Letting People Die

"Can't be said enough: Republicans objecting to #TrumpRyancare are doing so because it's not yet cruel enough for the @freedomcaucus."

7 years ago

Angry Paul Ryan Runs From Reporters After Health Care Talks Fail Miserably

The Speaker was in no mood to deal with the press after a day of spectacular failures for his party.

7 years ago

Don’t Be Fooled: GOP Obamacare Replacement Has Even Bigger Fines For Being Uninsured

Republicans claim to be doing away with the individual mandate. But their newly released plan would slap uninsured Americans with…

7 years ago

GOP Planned Parenthood Inquisition Expands To Punish Research Scientists

Those being burned at the stake are our scientists who hold lifesaving medical breakthroughs in their hands.

8 years ago

Democrats Could Win The House If Trump Or Cruz Is The Republican Nominee

A new analysis finds that Democrats will have a chance of winning back the House if Donald Trump or Ted…

8 years ago

Republicans Suffocate Democracy By Leading The Most Closed Congress In US History

House Republicans demonstrated their contempt for democracy today by setting the record for being the most closed Congress in US…

8 years ago

Behind The Moderate Myth Paul Ryan Dreams Of Shutting Down Government Permanently

The only difference between the extremists and Ryan is how soon, and for how long, they are able to shut…

8 years ago

House Democrats Blast Republican Plan to Create Committee on Planned Parenthood

When House Republicans announced a new witch hunt against Planned Parenthood, Democrats were swift and decisive in their response

9 years ago

After Voting to Strip it From DC Residents, Boehner Claims to Champion Religious Freedom

"America was founded on the principle of religious freedom." It's just a shame he thinks only corporations have that freedom

9 years ago

Republicans Lay the Groundwork for the Baseless Impeachment of President Obama

Rep. Ted Yoho has authored a resolution in high hopes of using it to begin impeachment proceedings against President Obama…

9 years ago

Obama Attacked for Announcing Cuba is No Longer a State Sponsor of Terror

The resultant Republican freakout is not unexpected, as it violates not only the status quo but further silences the drums…

9 years ago

Obama’s Cleveland Appearance Leaves Boehner No Other Option but to Lie – Again

Eviscerated by President Obama in Cleveland, Speaker Boehner had no option but to try to bury Obama's budget in well-tried…

9 years ago

Rand Paul’s Read the Bills Act Relies on Congress to Tell the Truth

Rand Paul says he wants Congress to read bills before they vote, relying on them to tell us truthfully if…

9 years ago

This Week’s Republican Address Promises to Create Jobs and Save the Economy!

Rep. Steve Russell (R-OK) highlights the new Congress's work to "restore truly representative government that puts the people's priorities first"

9 years ago

GOP House Leader Was Honored Guest Speaker At White Supremacist Conference

This week it was revealed that the third ranking Republican in the House of Representatives is guilty of pandering to…

9 years ago

113th Congress Produces 22% of “Do-Nothing” 1947-1948 Counterpart

Similar to overpaid NFL "star" Jay Cutler's reign of terror as the starting quarterback for the Chicago Bears, the best…

9 years ago

Mama We’re All Crazy Now – A Michele Bachmann Retrospective

Bachmann's flight from Dana Bash is a metaphor for an endless flight from reality, which pretty much describes her entire…

9 years ago

Archbishop of Chicago Defends Obama’s Immigration Executive Action

Immigration reform is not just something the bishops want, says Cupich, but God himself. How successful will the GOP be…

9 years ago

Tom Tancredo Says Republicans in Congress Have Stockholm Syndrome

Tancredo says GOP is impotent. Impotent yes. Because they're ideologically blinkered idiots. Not because they identify with their "captor" Obama.

9 years ago

The GOP Poutfest Ignited: House Republicans Sue President Obama Over ACA

Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced that House GOP will be using taxpayer money to sue President Obama over the implementation…

9 years ago

According to Ted Cruz, Reagan and Both Bushes Acted Like Monarchs

De facto Speaker of the House and self-appointed incoming Senate Majority Leader Ted Cruz accused the President of being a…

9 years ago

Party Of Family Values: Newly Elected GOP Lawmaker Is A Convicted Child Abuser

One election where a Democratic seat was flipped red was Montana's District 32 State House race. The Republican, Gilbert Bruce…

9 years ago

Common Sense: Washington State Voters Approve Expanded Background Checks On Gun Sales

Voters in Washington overwhelmingly passed an initiative that would expand the state's background check laws. Initiative 594 calls for background…

9 years ago

Momentum Moves Towards Democrats As Republicans Get Worried About the 2014 Election

Republicans have moved beyond nervousness and into flat out worry as the nation heads into the homestretch of the 2014…

10 years ago

Ahead Of Midterm Elections, GOP’s Message Appears To Be One Of Racism And Hatred

Two recent events have brought out the Republican Party's inner racist demon -- the GOP's Senate primary runoff election in…

10 years ago

House Republicans’ Intransigence On Immigration Reform Will Cost Them Seats In November

A year ago Friday marked the one year anniversary since the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill with bipartisan…

10 years ago

Same Old: Kevin McCarthy Replaced Eric Cantor as House Majority Leader

If you expected change, tailor your expectations to expect more of the same because this is another House defined by…

10 years ago

Right-Wing Radio Host Laura Ingraham Bullies GOP Congressman Over Immigration Reform

During the broadcast of her radio show Tuesday, Laura Ingraham had Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) on to discuss his attempt…

10 years ago

Republican Congressman Tells Right-Wing Radio Host That House Has Votes To Impeach Obama

Here we go again. During an interview with local Pennsylvania radio host Gary Sutton, Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA) commented that…

10 years ago

A Fired Up President Obama Calls Out Democrats for Not Voting in Midterms

President Obama said, "Democrats do have one congenital disease, and that is that we don't vote during midterms..."

10 years ago

Tea Party’s Defeat Of Eric Cantor Could Eventually Spell Doom For The Republican Party

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) lost in the Republican primary Tuesday night to Tea Party upstart David Brat. Republicans…

10 years ago

House Republicans Refuse to Discuss Climate Change Because They Aren’t Scientists

In the House of Representatives, Republicans signaled to the world that not only are they not discussing the veracity of…

10 years ago

Crazy Tea Party Congressman Suggests Only Property Owners Should Be Allowed To Vote

The watchdog group Right Wing Watch recently uncovered video footage of Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) telling voters in his district…

10 years ago

A Post Mortem look at the VW, UAW vote and the absurd spin of the winners

The late Friday votes are in and yet another union is kept out. Workers at the Chattanooga Volkswagen plant were…

10 years ago

Kansas Senate Comes To It’s Senses And Nixes Extreme Anti-Gay Legislation

The Kansas Senate decided on Friday that they would kill the legislation that was passed earlier this week by the…

10 years ago

An Unknown Crazed GOP Congressman Appears To Be Sending Threats To House Republicans

Republican lawmakers have been receiving threats for the past few weeks over the debt ceiling vote, and the threats appear…

10 years ago

Give Those With Mental Health Issues and Addiction Problems a Break; Elect Democrats!

Let our Democratic candidates run on a platform of both mercy and pocketbook practicality. The issue is out there for…

10 years ago

Impending Terror As Americans Are Forced To Depend On Republicans To Do Something

On Friday, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew stated that the debt ceiling will need to be raised no later than February…

10 years ago

Did God Harden Barack Obama’s Heart or Did He Make Joseph Farah Stupid?

What Farah demands from Obama is that the president set aside the United States Constitution and embrace an imaginary Bible…

10 years ago

California Democrat Calls Out GOP Congressman For Inaccurate Criticism Of President

On Monday, Democrat Tim Sheridan, who is running against Calvert for his seat this November, fired back and called out…

10 years ago

President’s State of the Union Speech Strikes Most of the Chords Dems Were Waiting For

I watched President Obama's State of the Union speech Tuesday night. I was one of the 15% who did in…

10 years ago

Mitch McConnell Threatens To Destroy The Economy Unless Obama Approves Keystone XL

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made an appearance on Fox News Sunday this Sunday. McConnell basically stated that the…

10 years ago

The Media Needs to Talk Less About What Obama Can Do and More About Why Republicans Won’t Do

Since when was it ever the intention of the U.S. Constitution that one branch should be able to not balance…

10 years ago

Liberal Icon George Miller Announces That He Will Be Retiring From Congress

The House of Representatives will lose one if its truly great, progressive voices at the end of this year as…

10 years ago

Republicans Insist al Qaeda Behind Benghazi Attack Because all Terrorists are al Qaeda

The Republicans insist that because pretty much any Islamic terrorist you care to name is al Qaeda that al Qaeda…

10 years ago

Democrat Tim Sheridan Primed To Defeat Ken Calvert and Help Take Back the House in 2014

On Wednesday morning, I was able to speak with Tim Sheridan. Sheridan is a Democratic candidate for Congress who is…

10 years ago

John Boehner Won’t Take Responsibility for Least Productive Congress Ever

Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) was confronted by reporters on Tuesday and asked his thoughts about this being…

10 years ago

Ex-Generals Say President Obama Must be Forced to Resign

Vallely and Jones want to violate the Constitution so they can call for adherence to the Constitution with strict congressional…

10 years ago

The Big Oil and Gas-Owned Republican House Trying to Do the Fracking Bidding of Big Gas and Oil

The political attention of most Americans has been concentrated on the latest developments at HealthCare.gov. Meanwhile fracking explodes.

10 years ago

39 House DINOs Helped Crush ACA Requirements in a Critical Vote

Unless Democrats want more of the same in DC until January of 2021, they'll have to move their frozen rumps…

10 years ago

Republican Condemns President Obama For Not Using the Old Testament to Guide Policy

It is astonishing, but one of their champions used the floor of the House to condemn President Obama for not…

10 years ago

They Were Born That Way: Is This John Boehner’s ENDA?

John Boehner's reaction in not wanting to hold a vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act legislation is still wrong.

10 years ago

Don’t Forget to Respect Your Elders; Unless Their Names are Charles and David Koch

The two most destructive influences on this country are the filthy rich Koch brothers, Charles and David. They have nothing…

10 years ago

Meet One of Ted Cruz’s House Cheerleading Squad

Renee Ellmers, was one of the 144 House Republicans who voted to make the economy scream while keeping her paycheck…

11 years ago

Alex Castellanos Accuses Democrats of Being the Extremists

Republican strategist Alex Castellanos took to a CNN op-ed to accuse the Democrats of extremism, asking "Are Democrats more extreme…

11 years ago

Tea Party Terrorist Republicans Are on an Economic Suicide Mission to Harm Obama

Tea party Republicans who are willing to commit political suicide to punish the people for electing an African American man…

11 years ago

The Big Lie Behind Rand Paul’s Pack of GOP Shutdown Lies

The shutdown Republicans initiated claiming Obamacare is costing Americans too much money, costs more money than Obamacare.

11 years ago

Tea Party – Pee on America and Call this Experiment in Democracy Over

Who, precisely, we must ask ourselves, are Cruz and Paul and others fighting for if it is not the American…

11 years ago

210 Republicans Who make Nearly $175,000 a Year Said Poor People Should Starve to Death

The House's SNAP vote was cold, callous, and calculated by a Republican Party that hopes to ruin Barack Obama's presidency…

11 years ago

Louie Gohmert Suggests Defunding Executive Branch to Punish Obama

Louie Gohmert wants the Obama administration to come clean about non-existent scandals or face being defunded

11 years ago

An Obama Failure On Syria Might Ultimately Doom The Republican Party

An Obama failure with Syria is a strong possibility. However, this failure might end up being what ultimately dooms the…

11 years ago

House Republicans Use Bogus Scandal As an Excuse To Slash The IRS Budget

Republicans have made no secret underfunding the IRS is punitive for what they cite as inappropriate actions over the phony…

11 years ago

Republicans Around The Country Are On A Law breaking Rampage

There is a definite patten among Republicans of finding some means of of ignoring , breaking, or circumventing laws that…

11 years ago

Michele Bachmann Warns Immigration Bill Puts Republic at Stake

Bachmann says, 'We will not successfully pass the torch of liberty if we have perpetual amnesty. It won't happen.'

11 years ago

Michele Bachmann Says God Will Free Us From the Yoke of Obamacare

Michele Bachmann, Queen of Batshit Crazy, says "We serve a mighty God and I believe it can happen"

11 years ago

Instead of Attacking The IRS, Republicans Should be Praising Them for Doing Their Jobs

The real scandal is not that the IRS did its job, it is that groups like Rove's GPS Crossroads and…

11 years ago

While Stealing Women’s Rights Republicans Pledge Allegiance to Evangelical Christians

Republicans typically oppose women's equality as a matter of course, their non-stop attacks on Planned Parenthood are based on their…

11 years ago

The Professional Left Is Handing Republicans Precisely What They Want

The professional left is really not different than the right in that they forget their past missteps and repeat them…

11 years ago