house of representatives

One of the 10 Republican House members to support the impeachment of former President Donald Trump is facing blowback for their vote in their home state. Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who has been one of the more vocal critics of the Trump administration in the GOP, has officially been censured by the LaSalle County Republican […]

During a GOP conference on Wednesday, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene apologized to her fellow Republican lawmakers for her past remarks, which included endorsing violence against Democratic leaders and espousing conspiracy theories about mass shootings, as reported by The Hill. During the closed-door meeting, Greene told her colleagues that she did believe that school shootings […]

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene revealed on Twitter on Saturday morning that she had recently received a call from former President Donald Trump in which he thanked the controversial Georgia lawmaker and offered his “support.” “I had a GREAT call with my all time favorite POTUS, President Trump! I’m so grateful for his support and more […]

During a news conference on Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opened up about concerns over threats she and other members of Congress have received in the wake of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, as reported by ABC News. She admitted that a bill will likely be required to increase funding for […]

In a Sunday interview with CNN, a clip of which can be viewed below, two rising progressive stars refused to commit to voting for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaking with host Dana Bash, incoming Reps. Jamaal Bowman of New York and Cori Bush of Missouri — both of whom won […]

Democratic officials in the House of Representatives have leaked details about a fiercely bitter phone call to members about the results of the 2020 presidential election. Though it appears that the party will hold onto its majority in the lower chamber, numerous candidates lost their re-elections and are voicing concerns about the future. One of […]

Rep. Justin Amash, the Michigan congressman who left the GOP in 2019 and later briefly sought the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination, has seemingly indicated that he won’t seek another term in Congress. The 40-year-old, who previously broke from conservatives with his criticism of President Donald Trump, implied that he won’t pursue re-election via Twitter on […]

Donald Trump’s campaign announced its first rally since the coronavirus pandemic led many states to issue stay-at-home orders, and it will be held on Friday, June 19, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The location, as well as the date, caught the attention of many, including Texas Rep. Al Green, who took to Twitter to slam the whole […]

House Republicans had indicated that a proposal for legislation on police reform would be available by the end of the week, but now sources say they’re holding off, The Hill reported on Wednesday. Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, who is the leading Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, has been working on a proposal and had […]

Days after President Donald Trump was acquitted in his Senate trial, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll has revealed what Americans think about the acquittal. By a small margin, a plurality of Americans believe that Donald Trump deserved to be acquitted. Asked if they support or oppose the Senate’s decision to acquit Trump, 43 percent of poll […]

Democrats continue to advocate to hear from new impeachment witnesses in the forthcoming Senate trial on Donald Trump as Republicans appear united against the suggestion. While Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware recently said he believes the Senate will delay the debate on hearing from new witnesses, The Hill reports that House Democrats may call […]

As the number of Republicans in the House of Representatives who have announced their resignations this year continues to increase, leaving the party more vulnerable to an upset in the 2020 election, California Rep. Duncan Hunter joined that list on Tuesday, not long after pleading guilty to a scandal. According to The Hill, Hunter submitted […]

As President Donald Trump continues to deal with the severe blowback from his decision to authorize a U.S. military drone strike that resulted in the death of Iranian military general Qassem Soleimani, the House Foreign Affairs Committee added to the criticism by reminding Trump via Twitter that he’s “not a dictator.” According to The Hill, […]

Civil Rights icon and Democratic Representative from Georgia John Lewis revealed that he has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. His office added that the representative will be undergoing treatment for the disease. “While I am clear-eyed about the prognosis, doctors have told me that recent medical advances have made this type of cancer […]

Rep. Debbie Dingell on Sunday described President Donald Trump‘s distasteful jab about her late husband’s eternal fate during a Michigan rally on Wednesday night as feeling like she was hit in the stomach. According to Politico, Dingell was asked by Fox News host Chris Wallace about the incident, which happened at the same time House […]

Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has faced increased backlash from Democrats in the wake of her decision to vote “present” on the matter of two articles of impeachment drafted against President Donald Trump, but on Saturday, during an event, the president offered praise for the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. According to Mediaite, at a Turning Point […]

The Senate confirmed more than a dozen of President Donald Trump‘s judicial nominees this week, just hours before leaving for the Christmas recess. The final confirmations for 2019 — one on Wednesday and 12 on Thursday — came as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has turned his attention to approving district court nominees, after filling […]

As the House of Representatives launched a formal vote on two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Wednesday night, the president held a campaign rally in Battle Creek, Michigan in which he slammed a deceased Democratic member of Congress — a remark that garnered backlash from members of the Republican party. According to […]

In a potentially history-making moment, Democrat Alcee Hastings — who is a member of the House of Representatives — will cast a vote on whether or not to impeach Donald Trump, having been impeached himself, Yahoo News reports. It would be the first time in U.S. history that a sitting member of Congress who has […]

Rep. Ted Lieu, serving the 33rd Congressional District in California, made his thoughts on President Donald Trump crystal clear during the debate on articles of impeachment today. “Let’s start by making this very simple: no one in America can do what Donald Trump did and get away with it,” Lieu said to open his remarks. […]

As the House of Representatives prepares to conduct a formal impeachment vote on President Donald Trump, it’s important to understand the impeachment process in its entirety and what might happen in the next stage of the process. What Is The Impeachment Process? The framers of the U.S. Constitution included the impeachment process and rules to […]

Donald Trump asked Americans to “say a prayer” for him as he is poised to become the third president to be impeached. On Wednesday, the House of Representatives will likely vote on articles of impeachment against the 45th president. As Democrats lead the House of Representatives with 233 votes to the Republicans’ 197, and since […]

As Democrats in the House of Representatives prepare to formally vote on whether or not to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reacted to a blistering, six-page letter penned by the president which expressed, in no uncertain terms, his disdain for the entire impeachment process. According to The Hill, Pelosi was […]

As President Donald Trump‘s impeachment investigation reaches the end of handling by the House of Representatives, The Hill reported on Tuesday that with very few exceptions, virtually all House Democrats will formally vote to impeach the 45th president and are expected to do so on Wednesday. Notable holdouts include a handful of Democrats who represent […]

Last week, freshman Democratic lawmaker Rep. Jeff Van Drew grabbed headlines after it was announced that he informed his top staffers of an imminent switch to the Republican party after a private meeting with President Donald Trump and on Tuesday, the president heaped praise on his new ally. According to Politico, Trump took to Twitter […]

A new Washington Post/ABC News poll shows that 49 percent of Americans — effectively one of every two — say that they want to see Donald Trump removed from office through impeachment. In theory, that could happen as soon as January, when the United States Senate appears likely to hold Trump’s impeachment trial, if the […]

New Jersey Rep. Jefferson Van Drew, the anti-impeachment Democrat who sent shockwaves across Capitol Hill after signaling he intends to switch his political allegiance to the Republican Party on the heels of a meeting with President Donald Trump, lost a number of his staffers over the weekend. According to The Hill, five of the lawmaker’s […]

As President Donald Trump and the White House prepare for the likelihood of an impeachment trial in the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate, his critics are coming out in force, including CNN’s Chris Cuomo, who on Friday night coined a new nickname for the president: “Dirty Donald.” According to The Hill, as Cuomo slammed Republicans for their […]

House Democrats are wrapping up the final phase of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump and preparing to formally vote on the two articles of impeachment they drafted and announced on Tuesday. Now, at least one Democratic lawmaker believes that if the president wins re-election in 2020, he could face the process all over […]

The House of Representatives has revealed two articles of impeachment against Donald Trump: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, Yahoo News reported. Following weeks of maneuvering that included both behind-closed-doors testimony of several witnesses, public testimony of several witnesses and public testimony of constitutional scholars, key Democrat-led House committees have formally produced the document […]

After several weeks of testimony from witnesses in Donald Trump’s ongoing impeachment inquiry, it is being widely reported on Monday night that House Democrats will formally announce the drafting of two articles of impeachment against the president on Tuesday, according to The Hill. The announcement is expected to be delivered by House Judiciary Committee Chairman […]

President Donald Trump ripped into Fox News on Sunday, returning to a familiar line of attack when the network invites Democrats to make appearances on its programs, which typically means some level of unfavorable coverage for the president. His attacks against the conservative-friendly cable news network have been somewhat consistent in 2019, having fired off […]

As the House Judiciary Committee continues to process its phase of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump over his alleged wrongdoing in his dealings with Ukraine, Chairman Jerry Nadler claimed that the president would be quickly convicted in front of a jury. According to The Hill, Nadler held nothing back Sunday during an interview […]

If the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump is formally voted on by the U.S. House of Representatives and a trial moves to the U.S. Senate, one Democratic senator claims that there could be several Republican senators who will vote to remove Trump from office. According to The Hill, Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy made the […]

One of the expert legal witnesses called to testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan, apologized during her allotted time for bringing up President Donald Trump‘s son, 13-year-old Barron Trump, as part of her testimony. Karlan invoked Barron’s name while she attempted to explain the rights afforded […]

As Democratic lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee geared up for Wednesday’s televised phase three of the impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, Chairman Jerry Nadler reportedly told his colleagues on Tuesday night that he wasn’t going to “take any sh*t” from Republicans. According to Politico, Nadler delivered his strong message in […]

The George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, a witness invited by Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee to add testimony to President Donald Trump‘s impeachment inquiry, delivered one of the more memorable opening statements as of late, claiming even his sweet dog was “mad” about the ongoing impeachment hearings. According to The Hill, […]

The House of Representatives has released its impeachment report into Donald Trump, NBC News reports. The report will likely be the basis for a draft of articles of impeachment that will be voted on by the full House, possibly by Christmas. Following weeks of testimony, both behind closed doors and in contentious public hearings, the […]

As House lawmakers return to duty after a Thanksgiving break, which followed two weeks of headline-generating news about President Donald Trump‘s impeachment inquiry, Republicans issued a scathing, 123-page rebuttal to the Democrats’ efforts to build a case against the president. In it, the Republicans stated that not enough evidence exists to prove any of the […]

As House Democrats break for Thanksgiving after two weeks of grueling live testimony by a number of witnesses in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, a new report on Tuesday suggested that the president was well aware that a whistleblower complaint was filed against him before he released a U.S. military aid package to […]

Republican Sen. John Kennedy held nothing back concerning his thoughts on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s decision to formally launch an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, claiming that the California congresswoman is using the impeachment process as type of “political weapon.” According to Fox News, during an interview on Fox News Sunday, Kennedy told host […]

As House Democrats are reportedly preparing articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on the heels of two weeks of live testimony from a number of witnesses, House Intel Committee Chairman Adam Schiff dismissed Trump’s notion that he would be called to testify in the U.S. Senate. According to The Hill, Trump tweeted a warning […]

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff promised on Sunday that the legislative body will move forward with writing its report on the findings of the impeachment inquiry, although he didn’t rule out the possibility that there would be more depositions and more public hearings. As NBC News reports, Schiff stopped by the network’s stalwart Meet […]

The latest polls show that Americans are evenly split on whether or not Donald Trump should be impeached, and that two weeks of televised hearings have failed to change many minds about the situation. According to the most recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll, conducted November 20 through 22, Americans are largely evenly split on whether or […]

Ken Starr, famously known as the independent counsel who led the investigation on the 1990s Whitewater scandal, made a bold prediction on Wednesday amid live testimony by Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, claiming that Democrats were likely already drawing up articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. According to Fox News, Starr cited […]

Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman claims to be able to predict the exact moment during the impeachment hearings in which President Donald Trump will be “toast,” HuffPost reports. Akerman believes that the moment will come once Gordon Sondland testifies. Sondland, the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, was involved in the machinations the Trump administration […]

Democratic Representative Dina Titus, 69, from Nevada blasted President Donald Trump this weekend during a forum called “First in the West,” featuring several 2020 candidates in Las Vegas. According to a Fox News report, Titus’s comments came on Sunday evening during the event, which took place at the Bellagio hotel. When she spoke, Titus did […]

Mike Turner, a Republican Representative from Ohio, admitted that the testimony he heard as a committee member at the House’s closed-door deposition of former NSC official Tim Morrison alarmed him, CNN reported. Morrison’s statement is part of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, and Morrison will testify publicly on Tuesday. “Well, of course, all […]

Jennifer Williams, who is one of the few White House officials to comply with House Democrats in the ongoing impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump, felt the wrath of the president’s tweet attacks on Sunday after it was revealed that she believes there was something amiss in a July 25 phone call between Trump and […]

The attorney for the anonymous Ukraine whistleblower, Mark Zaid, blasted Republican party lawmakers as hypocrites in the wake of the first televised, public hearing of two witnesses in front of the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday. According to The Hill, Zaid dialed in on a repeated accusation from GOP lawmakers and from President Donald Trump […]