Browsing: House GOP

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) wants to move on from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)’s effort to oust him from his position. “I don’t hold grudges. I’ve got to work with everybody. I told her last night before she left the floor, let’s move on, Marjorie,” Johnson said Thursday in an interview with…

Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) appeared to link the story about presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stating that a doctor informed him a parasite had partially consumed his brain to the assassinations of his father and uncle. “You either die a Kennedy with a hole in the brain or live long enough to become a…

An activist from CodePink said a GOP congressman knocked her phone out of her hand when she talked to him about the Israel-Hamas war. Rep. Mike Ezell (R-Miss.) was walking in a hallway before a House committee when two people approached him. According to camera footage posted to social platform…

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said on Tuesday that he does not plan to vote for former President Trump in November, indicating that he would write in another candidate instead. “Character is too important to me,” Ryan, who left Congress in 2019, told Yahoo Finance at the Milken Global Institute Conference. “And it’s a job that…

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) joined Jesse Watters Wednesday to discuss the massive foreign aid package that recently passed both chambers, and the difficulties Republicans have faced getting immigration-related reforms passed with a Democratic Senate and President Biden in office. “Listen, we’re dealing with the smallest majority in U.S. history. We have a one-vote margin,” Johnson said on “Jesse Watters…

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) criticized President Biden for giving Russian President Vladimir Putin a signal when the U.S. withdrew its troops from Afghanistan. McConnell appeared on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom” on Wednesday following the Senate's approval of aid to Ukraine in its conflict with Russia after a long delay. He argued that one of Biden’s…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed gratitude to the U.S. after the House passed a bill providing additional funds to Ukraine in its ongoing war against Russia. “Today, we received the awaited decision on the US aid package that we long fought for. And a very significant one,” Zelensky wrote on social media platform X. “Our…

President Biden signed a bill Saturday extending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s (FISA) warrantless surveillance program another two years. The Senate passed the reauthorization bill early Saturday, after hours of intense debate, narrowly avoiding a key national intelligence gathering capability going dark. Senators voted 60-34 to send the bill to Biden’s desk shortly after the midnight deadline.…

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said Americans have “every right to be angry” about a border security bill not being a part of foreign aid legislation making its way through Congress this week. “I believe the American people have every right to be pretty angry with Congress as a whole, and both sides tonight,” Mace said…

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) pushed back on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) motion to vacate against Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), saying it is “not the right business model.” “Now Mike Johnson walked into a bad situation,” Comer said Friday an interview with Fox News’s Martha MacCallum. “It’s gotten a lot worse since…