Category: Democrats

GOP Panel Chair Demands Action to Fix ‘Dire’ Border Situation

ORLANDO, Fla.—House Republicans will redouble their efforts this spring and summer to convince the Democrat-held Senate to adopt eight proposed immigration reform measures that are matriculating through the lower chamber, two key GOP committee chairs affirmed March 20. While that’s not necessarily breaking news, Homeland Security Committee Chair Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) and Judiciary Committee…


Senate Votes to Begin Debate on Bill Repealing Iraq War Authorizations

The Senate voted on March 21 to advance a repeal of two U.S. authorizations for military action against Iraq. The upper congressional chamber voted on the motion, 67-28, to begin debate on a bill that would undo the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for the Use of Military Force (AUMFs). The first authorization allowed the United…


McCarthy Urges Senate to Form China Committee

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calf.) on March 21 suggested the Democrat-controlled Senate should create its own China-focused committee, not unlike the select China committee that the Republican-controlled House inaugurated this session. “I would hope that the Senate would create a similar committee,” he said. McCarthy made the comments alongside his colleagues Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah…


PREMIERING at Mar. 22 10AM ET: Troubled US Bank’s Ties to China Raise More Red Flags

The Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) bad management may have set off a nationwide financial crisis. The Biden administration has pledged to protect depositors’ money. But among SVB’s customers are firms affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). So why are American taxpayers footing the bill to make Beijing whole? In the premiere of the new…


House Republicans at Retreat Focus on China, Parents’ Rights, Energy as Trump Arrest Looms

ORLANDO, Fla.—The 500-acre Ritz Carlton Grande Lakes, with its 580-plus luxury rooms, Greg Norman-designed golf course, and waterpark, is figuratively if not geographically a million miles away from Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach or New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Manhattan office. With events in both locations dominating the news, more than 150 House Republicans…


At House GOP Retreat, Lawmakers Focus on China, Parents’ Rights, Energy as Possible Trump Arrest Looms

ORLANDO, Fla.—The 500-acre Ritz Carlton Grande Lakes, with its 580-plus luxury rooms, Greg Norman-designed golf course, and waterpark, is figuratively if not geographically a million miles away from Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach or New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Manhattan office. With events in both locations dominating the news, more than 150 House Republicans…


Former US Rep. John Jenrette, Jailed in Abscam Scandal, Dies at 86

CONWAY, S.C.—Former U.S. Rep. John Jenrette, who was convicted in the Abscam bribery scandal in the late 1970s, has died. He was 86. Jenrette, who had been in declining health, died Friday, according to his obituary from Goldfinch Funeral Home in Conway, South Carolina. Jenrette served three terms as a Democrat in the U.S. House,…


Alleged Chinese Payments to Biden Family in Focus at House Republican Party Retreat

Republican members of the House of Representatives are using a party retreat in Orlando, Florida to hone in on new details in a multi-faceted investigation of Joe Biden’s family’s business transactions, including the possible flow of Chinese money to the Biden family. Ahead of the House Republican retreat, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.)…


Border Patrol Chief Says 1.5 Million ‘Gotaways’ Now in US Since Biden Took Office

Around 1.5 million illegal immigrants have been able to sneak across the border and remain the country under President Joe Biden, the U.S. Border Patrol chief told Congress on Wednesday. Raul L. Ortiz told the House’s Homeland Security Committee on March 15 that Biden’s unwillingness to protect the border has opened the doors to around 1.5 million…


Bi-Partisan Cooperation Emerges With Two Bills in Aftermath of Ohio Toxic Train Derailment

Since the toxic derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train in eastern Ohio on Feb. 3, Democrats and Republicans have pointed fingers at each other about the disaster and subsequent derailments. Yet bi-partisan cooperation on railroad safety legislation has emerged in both chambers on Capitol Hill. Following the Railway Safety Act of 2023 announced by…