House Republicans are bracing for what could be a divided and drawn-out fight to elect a new Speaker of the House this week as they appear to struggle to unify behind one candidate. The Republican conference will meet at 5:00 P.M. today to hear from the two candidates running to be speaker of the House:… Read More
Kevin McCarthy (R-California) is now the first speaker in history to have been voted out of his job — 216 to 210 — with a mere eight Republican detractors in his slim majority sealing his fate and siding with Democrats to oust him. The eight Republicans who voted against McCarthy are: Andy Biggs of Arizona,… Read More
Representative Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) moved on Monday to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) from his post, a move that poses the clearest threat yet to Mr. McCarthy’s troubled tenure and could plunge the House into chaos. After days of warnings, Mr. Gaetz rose on Monday evening to bring up a resolution declaring the speakership vacant,… Read More
Congress narrowly averted a government shutdown on Saturday as the House, in a stunning turnabout, approved a stopgap plan to keep the federal government open until mid-November. After Senate passage, President Biden signed the bill shortly before midnight. In tumultuous day of events on Capitol Hill, a coalition of House Democrats and Republicans voted to… Read More
Both the House and Senate spent Thursday working on a path forward on their respective continuing resolutions with a shutdown now looking inevitable. The House did mange to pass three of four appropriations bills late Thursday, although that does nothing to keep the government open in the short term. The House passed: State Department and… Read More
Congress is starkly divided over very different paths to preventing a federal government shutdown with the Senate charging ahead with a bipartisan package to temporarily fund the government, but the Republican led House is slogging through a longshot effort with no real chance of funding the government by Saturday’s midnight deadline. Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California)… Read More
With just four days remaining until a government shutdown, both the House and Senate will be back in session today, and the House this evening will vote on whether to advance four full-year appropriations bills for fiscal year 2024, a move that does nothing to avert a shutdown, but that House Republican leaders hope will… Read More
Both the House and Senate are not in session today for the Yom Kippur holiday. The House will reconvene for votes at 6:30 P.M. tomorrow and the Senate at 3:00 P.M. tomorrow. With just five days left before a government shutdown, both sides of the Capitol are scrambling to find a solution, with few real… Read More
House conservatives on Thursday morning defeated a procedural vote on a Pentagon funding bill, preventing the legislation from moving forward in the chamber for the second time this week and dealing another embarrassing blow to Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California). Six Republicans joined Democrats in voting against the rule for the Pentagon appropriations bill, which was… Read More
Government funding lapses in less than 11 days, and a shutdown has never seemed so certain with challenges on both sides of the Capitol. Intraparty feuding between moderates and the hard-right lies at the heart of the GOP’s inability to reach a compromise and highlights the challenge before House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California). Both factions… Read More
