House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will host a screening of “Sound of Freedom,” a film about a human trafficking rescue operation, on Capitol Hill for members of Congress. Scheduled for July 25, the screening will also be attended by Jim Caviezel, the movie’s starring actor, and Operation Underground Railroad’s Tim Ballard, who inspired the film….
Speaker McCarthy to Host Bipartisan ‘Sound of Freedom’ Screening at Capitol
US Lawmakers Divided Over Supreme Court’s 2 Major Rulings
The conservative majority U.S. Supreme Court has been busy in the final days before its summer break, and the decisions it handed down this week have heartened and made Congressional Republicans mostly happy and left their colleagues on the other side of the aisle mostly unhappy and in many cases angry. Following the court’s historic…
McCarthy Backs Effort to Expunge Trump’s Impeachments
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is backing an effort in the House of Representatives to expunge the two impeachment proceedings against former President Donald Trump. On Friday, Reps. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) introduced two different resolutions to expunge Trump’s 2019 and 2021 impeachments. The resolutions state an expungement would act as…
Hunter Biden’s Attorney Defends Plea Deal, Says Investigation Was Thorough
Chris Clark, an attorney who represented Hunter Biden in a recent criminal investigation, is insisting that prosecutors were thorough and that the case against the Democratic president’s son didn’t end with an overly lenient plea deal. On Tuesday, Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss notified the U.S. District Court that Biden intended to plead guilty to…
McCarthy, Dissidents Aim to Improve How the House Functions
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will meet with dissenting House Republicans to resolve concerns that erupted in a dissenting vote by 11 GOP members on a procedural issue on June 6. At stake for both McCarthy and the dissenters is the ability of the House to function, especially in exercising one of its core constitutional…
Frustration With McCarthy’s Leadership Erupts in Mini-Rebellion by GOP Hardliners
Several Republican hardliners on June 6 staged a small revolt against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), frustrated by his handling of the Fiscal Responsibility Act. The group voted against the speaker on a procedural matter, preventing consideration of four bills favored by Republicans. The move was largely symbolic in that the bills are unlikely to…
Some Republicans Hint at Reckoning With McCarthy After Debt Ceiling Vote
The tension between House Republican leaders and the House Freedom Caucus resurfaced with the passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act on June 1. The law resulted from negotiations between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and President Joe Biden over terms for raising the nation’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling. It passed by a wide margin in…
ANALYSIS: McCarthy Emerges Stronger From Debt Ceiling Battle
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is no longer the underrated quarterback of the House of Representatives. Despite being drafted in the 15th round and persistently ignored by President Joe Biden, the dogged Californian succeeded in compelling the president to negotiate, standing firm on red-line issues, and moving a debt ceiling bill through Congress despite holding…
First Republican Publicly Threatens Move to Oust McCarthy as Speaker
Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) threatened on May 30 to seek an end to Kevin McCarthy’s tenure as speaker of the House were he to go through with his debt ceiling agreement with President Joe Biden. Bishop is the first one to make this threat. It only takes one member of Congress to file a motion…
Gaetz Predicts Debt Ceiling Deal Won’t Harm McCarthy
As negotiators zero in on the details of an agreement to raise the debt ceiling, some Republican representatives are downplaying the idea that cutting a bipartisan deal will endanger the position of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). McCarthy was elected speaker in January after a record 15 ballots. Because Republicans hold a slim majority in…
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