U.S. House of Representatives

Trump Vetted Each of the Republican Speaker Candidates with Personal Calls

Trump Vetted Each of the Republican Speaker Candidates with Personal Calls

All of the eight new Republican speaker candidates were vetted by the former president in a process Rep. Pete Sessions…

5 months ago

Media Finally Realizes It’s Republicans Not Democrats Who Are In Disarray

Things are so bad in the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives that CNN's chyron read "GOP in Crisis, GOP Scrambling…

6 months ago

Democrats Take 18-Point Lead In Midterm Matchup As Voters Are Eager To Punish GOP For Tax Scam

Democrats lead the GOP by a whopping 18 points among registered voters – the largest lead they've held in two…

6 years ago

Chuck Schumer Thanks GOP For Ramming Through Tax Bill That Will Hand Congress To The Democrats

Schumer said the plan's combination of tax increases for middle-class Americans and dramatic reductions for the wealthy is a recipe…

6 years ago

Republicans In Congress Are Plotting To Sabotage Russia Investigation If It Doesn’t End Soon

According to a new report, many GOP lawmakers are restless and "ready to close the books" on the probe.

6 years ago

Paul Ryan Promises ‘Unified Republican Government’ Will Destroy America in 2017

Take away healthcare because it's hurting you. Take away corporate taxes (and raise yours). Take away regulations that protect you…

7 years ago

Republican Job Creation Plan is the Same Old Laughable Laundry List of Lies

When Paul Ryan says "it’s time to take these lessons learned and apply them on a national scale—that’s a Better…

7 years ago

Do-Nothing GOP Congress Won’t Investigate Russia Hacking Our Elections

"GOP Congress spends a year and a half investigating Clinton emails, but refuses to investigate whether Russia is hacking our…

7 years ago

Paul Ryan Responds to Banking Scandal by Accusing Dodd-Frank of Killing Free Checking

Paul Ryan Ignores the Wells Fargo fraud scandal and instead accusing Dodd-Frank of killing free checking accounts

8 years ago

Paul Ryan, The Architect of Obstruction, Accuses Dems of Attack on Bipartisanship

Ryan accuses Democrats of attacking bipartisanship even though he was in the room of GOP luminaries who decided to obstruct…

8 years ago

GOP Says the Right to Know What You’re Eating is Burdensome to Corporations

Despite the protests of many medical organizations, Republicans ignore the health cost to Americans in favor of corporate profits

8 years ago

A Note to Speaker Ryan: Prayer Won’t Turn Flint’s Poisoned Water into Wine

Ryan says prayer comes first, when disaster strikes their home districts, it's money that comes first. Prayer is what they…

8 years ago

Paul Ryan Claims “If we make it an ideas contest, we win.”

Ryan says, “If we make it an ideas contest, we win.” But to have an ideas contest, you have to…

8 years ago

Senate Democrats Call Ryan’s Bluff and Reject SAFE Act Sleight of Hand

Ryan wanted Americans to believe Republicans are actually doing something, when really it's just more prime-time Republican theater

8 years ago

Paul Ryan Thinks Job-Killing is Worse Than People-Killing

Paul Ryan wants to use the the Congressional Review Act to prevent the president from saving the American people from…

8 years ago

Paul Ryan’s ‘Pro-Growth Agenda’ Calls for Giving Your Money to Rich People

Paul Ryan insists he is going to 'fix' things, but since Obama has already done that, he can only mean…

8 years ago

House Weekly Address Says Happy New Year, Now Die Without Insurance

The Republican-run House is up to its same old tricks: rather than helping Americans, attacking their access to healthcare

8 years ago

Paul Ryan Brags Up GOP Priorities – Not the Middle Class, But Big Oil and Corporations

Ryan says he wants to protect us from the overreach of intrusive government bureaucracies but he really wants to protect…

8 years ago

House Republicans Introduce A War on Christmas Resolution

It was inevitable that at some point, the radicalized United States House of Representatives would become involved in an official…

8 years ago

House Legislates Muslim Profiling with Visa Waiver Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act

The House voted to legalize the profiling of Muslims as part of HR 158 - a revision of the Visa…

8 years ago

Paul Ryan and House Use NDAA to Hijack the President’s Response to ISIL

Obama has a strategy for defeating ISIL so of course Paul Ryan demands that the he submit to Congress a…

8 years ago

Paul Ryan To Spew More of the Same Old on Five Sunday News Shows

"We are wiping the slate clean," we are told by Paul Ryan, which means the same "screw America" agenda advanced…

8 years ago

A Farewell to Boehner

There is plenty of blame to go around. No small share of it attaches itself to Boehner, who let the…

8 years ago

Paul Ryan Spurns Conservatives On Budget Deal But They Still Agree To Make Him Speaker

Paul Ryan, who is likely to become the next House Speaker, announced his support for a two-year debt and budget…

8 years ago

72 Percent Of Americans Say Benghazi Investigation Is A Political Sham

72 percent of Americans believe the House Select Committee on Benghazi is mostly using the Benghazi investigation to achieve political…

8 years ago

Warmonger Tom Cotton Wants To Put Dick Cheney In Charge Of The House

Arkansas GOP Senator Tom Cotton wants to put chickenhawk Dick Cheney back into a position of political power.

8 years ago

Paul Ryan Crushes GOP Hopes By Saying “No” To The Speaker Job That Nobody Wants

A spokesperson for Ryan reiterated that the Congressmen was still not interested in becoming the next Speaker of the House.

8 years ago

Radical House Freedom Caucus Doomed McCarthy’s Chances Of Becoming Speaker

After recalcitrant members of the House Freedom Caucus threatened not to back McCarthy, the California Rep. surrendered without a fight.

8 years ago

Poll: Americans Like Kevin McCarthy Even Less Than John Boehner

Only 12 percent of Americans view McCarthy favorably, while 38 percent hold an unfavorable opinion of the California Congressman.

8 years ago

Utah Right-winger Jason Chaffetz Will Challenge Kevin McCarthy For House Speakership

Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz plans to challenge Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy to become the next Speaker of the House.

8 years ago

Boehner’s Departure Opens The Door For Tea Party Crazies to Take The Wheel

With the tea party taking the wheel, the crazies can move forward with their plan to dismantle functioning government.

9 years ago

Hillary Clinton Slams Republicans for Plan to Shut Down Government Over Planned Parenthood

Clinton called out the Republican "race to the bottom," their hateful rhetoric and lies used as an excuse to shut…

9 years ago

Meet The 25 House Democrats Who Betrayed Peace By Joining Republicans In Opposing Iran Deal

While 162 Democrats stood with the president, 25 Democrats defected and sided with the Republicans in the House.

9 years ago

Boehner Says Obama’s Unwillingness to Attack Iran Shows a Lack of Commitment to Democracy

There is no low Republicans will not sink to when they are deprived of the opportunity to launch another baseless…

9 years ago

GOP’s Epic Failure To Stop Iran Deal Started With Netanyahu Stunt In March

The Israeli Prime Ministers speech to Congress backfired and pushed Democrats who were on the fence into siding with President…

9 years ago

House Republicans Introduce a Resolution of Disapproval of Iran Nuclear Agreement

House Republicans will be voting on a resolution of disapproval of the Iran deal, and Senate Republicans are talking about…

9 years ago

Weekly House Address Claims Over-Regulation Caused Crash of 2008

House Republicans want us to believe that by gutting Wall Street reform, we can somehow end bailouts and have a…

9 years ago

Clinton Emails Have Provided GOP Yet Another Excuse to Cry “Benghazi”

The GOP is determined to ignore every relevant fact about Benghazi on their mission to crucify Hillary Clinton

9 years ago

50 Years Later, John Lewis Is In Congress, Our President Is Black, But Selma Fight Isn’t Over

It is not enough simply to remember Selma. The courageous men and women on the Edmund Pettus Bridge could not…

9 years ago

The Forces of Nullification Behind Opposition to Boehner

This is really about opposition to Obama, and in violation of the Constitution, forcing him into the role of a…

9 years ago

Michele Bachmann Gets Both Bible and Constitution Wrong in Her Final Speech

Bachmann said the Speaker of the House is under the authority of Moses, something that comes up neither in the…

9 years ago

Taking Back the House, Vol. 9: David Schweikert and Arizona’s 6th District

This is the ninth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of…

10 years ago

Taking Back the House, Vol. 6: Don Young and Alaska’s At-Large District

This is the sixth edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. The purpose of…

10 years ago

Taking Back the House, Vol. 2: Mike Rogers and Alabama’s 3rd District

  This is the second edition of a research project at PoliticusUSA known as Taking Back the House. You can…

10 years ago

New Book Outs Democrats as Commies and Obamacare a Commie Plot

Since only a communist would oppose rampant crony capitalism and its corporatist/theocratic ideals, Democrats must be commies

11 years ago

Alabama Commission Prays Away Gay Marriage – at Meeting About Power Rates

The Alabama Public Service Commission started a meeting about power rate structures with a prayer against Marriage Equality.

11 years ago

President Obama is More Popular Now than During His First Term

The GOP finds itself in trouble as Obama's popularity soars and their own plummets, and Obama's second term only promises…

11 years ago

Things to Like About 2012

We had some rough times in 2012 but there are things to like about the year just past. Here are…

11 years ago

Let’s Not Give Right Wing Religious Idiots and Hypocrites the Last Laugh

The Religious Right says some laughable things, but there is nothing laughable about their money, power - or influence on…

11 years ago

Fake Jew Says Obama Victory Would be God’s Judgment on America

The fundamentalists got themselves covered now, so don't even try to argue: if Obama wins, it's God's will. If Romney…

12 years ago

Christian End-Time Fantasies Endanger Us All

Christian end time fantasies are not limited to the world of fiction; these people get elected to office and influence,…

12 years ago

Ezra Klein Presents The Do Less Than the Do-Nothing Congress

Ezra Klein, filling in for Rachel Maddow, gave the GOP no respite as he labeled this Congress the "do less…

12 years ago

The Dirty Thirty – New Year’s Edition

The Dirty Thirty New Year's Edition updates our survey of the GOP's war on women, the environment, education, voting rights…

12 years ago

A Possible Nightmare Scenario for America in 2012

A new group wants to nominate a third candidate in 2012 but if there is no clear winner, extremists in…

12 years ago