SEATTLE — Former Rep. George Nethercutt, who was a Spokane lawyer with little political experience when he ousted Democratic Speaker of the House Tom Foley as part of a stunning GOP wave that shifted national politics to the right in 1994, has died. He was 79. Nethercutt died Friday near Denver of progressive supranuclear palsy, […]
SEATTLE (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. George Nethercutt, who was a Spokane lawyer with limited political experience when he ousted Democratic Speaker of the House Tom Foley as part of a stunning GOP wave that shifted national politics to the right in 1994, has died. He was 79. Nethercutt died Friday near Denver of progressive […]
The Texas man who was indicted last year and accused of threatening to kill U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., in a series of phone calls has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison, federal officials announced Monday. Brian Michael Gaherty, 61, from Houston, was sentenced Monday and fined $10,000 for his crimes, according to […]
Three Republicans and one Democrat are seeking to become the Representative for Florida House District 81 – a big change from 2022 when Republican Bob Rommel was the incumbent and ran unopposed. Rommel has termed out after eight years in the post and is running for state Senate District 28. As long as they all qualify, […]
Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (Fla.) said Sunday that she wants the House to use the sergeant-at-arms, a provision that hasn’t been used in more than a century, to enforce the contempt of Congress resolution against Attorney General Merrick Garland. Luna was interviewed by Maria Bartiromo on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” where she […]
California Rep. Ro Khanna became the latest Democratic lawmaker to announce his refusal to attend a highly anticipated speech before Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, citing the leader’s role in continuing the devastating U.S.-funded military offensive in Gaza while rejecting efforts to prioritize a cease-fire deal. Last month, a bipartisan group of top […]
Florida GOP Rep. Byron Donalds on Sunday urged the Supreme Court to take up former President Donald Trump’s New York case in which he was convicted on 34 counts of falsification of business records. “Speaker [Mike] Johnson, myself included, and many Americans believe the Supreme Court should step into this matter,” Donalds told NBC News’ […]
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., on Sunday said he plans to skip Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress later this month, blasting the speech as “a one-way lecture.” “I will not attend,” Khanna said in an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” adding, “I said that if he wants to come to speak […]
Utah Rep. Burgess Owens said as he reviewed everything he saw related to public transportation on his trip to Nevada in December 2023, he came away impressed. During this field tour, organized by the Western Caucus Foundation, the Utah 4th District congressman and a handful of colleagues learned more about Hoover Dam and inspected the […]
Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert was spotted vaping where it’s prohibited once again. The populist congresswoman smoked up at Wednesday’s Congressional Baseball Game for Charity in the nation’s capitol while wearing an autographed MAGA baseball cap, according to Politico. Washington D.C.’s Nationals Park calls itself “a completely non-smoking and tobacco-free facility per District of Columbia law,” […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Garret Graves, a Republican representing Louisiana, said on Friday that he will not run for reelection after a new congressional map dismantled his district, transforming it into the state’s second majority-Black district. Up until now, the congressman, one of former-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s close allies, had remained adamant […]
Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) wants top Army officials to tell him why a military award pin he has been wearing on his lapel was revoked last year following criticism from some of his GOP colleagues for continuing to wear the designation, accusing the service of a smear campaign. Nehls — who served 21 years in […]