The Senate passed a five-year FAA reauthorization Thursday night with overwhelming bipartisan support — except from the Virginia and Maryland delegations, who are furious about an expansion of flights at Reagan National Airport. The Senate cleared the major reauthorization 88-4. But the DMV senators held up the separate weeklong extension bill out of frustration about…
There are several Republicans running for the Senate who have sizable net worths and can self-fund to help counteract Democrats’ big financial advantage. Then there’s Jim Banks. The Indiana Republican fits a different profile as he seeks the Senate seat vacated by Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind…
As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will “stand alone” if it has to, leading congressional Republicans are pressuring President Joe Biden to rule out withholding weapons to the allied country — regardless of any invasion into the Gaza city of Rafah. “We should not be telling them how to protect themselves,” Senate Minority Leader…
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was never hugely popular among her more centrist colleagues. After forcing a vote on ousting Speaker Mike Johnson, even droves of conservatives seem to have abandoned her — leaving the Georgia firebrand with next to no allies in the House. “People are calling me saying: ‘Please…
After Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s doomed referendum on Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership, a growing number of her GOP colleagues are pushing bigger consequences for her and other rebels. Those Republicans are proposing to build specific punishments into conference rules that would be triggered if hardliners keep breaking ranks against leadership…
Just as the hands that rock the cradle rule the world, the President that sits in the White House rules the world. This is because for the past thirty…
The group quota regime has largely succeeded in stripping its opponents, the American people, of the power to fight back…
In April, President Biden signed a bill forcing TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to either sell the platform or face a total ban. Now, the company is fighting back with a lawsuit. “For the first time in history, Congress has enacted a law that subjects a single…
We are less than six months away from the presidential election, which means that certain members of the news media will soon appoint themselves the arbiters of truth. They’ll do this even though so many got things wrong over the last half a decade (about Russian collusion with the 2016 Trump campaign…
President Joe Biden’s top advisers are all too aware the ghosts of 1968 may haunt their convention here, but they’re grappling with a pair of more urgent and thoroughly modern-day challenges as summer nears: How far can they go in reprising their virtual 2020 convention to mitigate the threat of disruption inside the arena…
World-building, identity and decolonising spaces in the digital and offline realms. The post Interview: Gabriel Massan & LYZZA appeared first on Fact Magazine…
Electorally vulnerable Senate Democrats are in a tricky position over Biden administration plans to allow Palestinian refugees into the U.S. — a move that’s becoming a political football in the party’s toughest races. The idea of allowing Palestinian refugees into the U.S. blends a couple of political problem points for Democrats…
The Nebraska Republican was convicted of lying to the FBI two years ago, but an appeals court ruled the charges should’ve been brought in a different venue…
A Senate agreement on a path forward for FAA reauthorization remains on standby, as Washington stares down a Friday deadline. Another procedural vote is slated for 1 p.m. as lawmakers continue work on the broader reauthorization. However, the House passed a one-week extension before leaving town Wednesday…
“I hope — I believe he’s off-script,” the speaker said about the decision to withhold weapons…
Barely 24 hours after muddying her timeline, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) did it anyway — and lost big. Speaker Mike Johnson survived Greene’s first proposal to oust him, which was tabled on a lightning-quick 359-43 vote, with seven Democrats voting present. Only 10 conservatives voted alongside Greene to keep her speaker-firing push alive…
Biden’s Economic Elitism Devastating Americans
America’s vaunted Ivy League has proven totally incapable of dealing with pro-Hamas protestors. They should learn from the balanced approach to free speech taken by Florida’s thriving universities…
While the mainstream media repeatedly mischaracterizes pro-Palestine protests on campus, police and university administrations are attempting to repress the student press…
Seven months after the Florida firebrand led the ouster of the former speaker, tempers are running hotter than ever — with McCarthy lauding Gaetz’s new primary challenger…
How a rookie speaker is finally proving his critics wrong…
Senators continue to look for a way forward on amendments to FAA reauthorization legislation ahead of a Friday deadline. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer cited “good progress” on the floor Tuesday but also noted it will take “a lot of cooperation to get this complicated bill done” quickly…
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is seemingly retreating from her threat to hold a referendum on Mike Johnson’s speakership this week after two meetings with the GOP leader. The Georgia firebrand is backing away from her pledge to hold an ouster vote, for now, saying the small band of conservative rebels interested in booting him would…
House Republicans are escalating their standoff with the Justice Department as they demand the audio of former special counsel Robert Hur’s interview with President Joe Biden. The Judiciary Committee will vote on May 16 on recommending Attorney General Merrick Garland be held in contempt of Congress…
Biden’s Approval Rating Is in the Danger Zone
Unelected officials want the power to drag us back into lockdown…
Ideology, Not Race, Widens Fractures in America
Trump has told allies about his plans to covertly send Special Forces to Mexico to assassinate drug kingpins, sources say…
Donald Trump is going further than just public statements supporting Speaker Mike Johnson — he’s actually trying to mediate between the House GOP leader and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. So far, it’s unclear if the ex-president can convince one of his most loyal followers to back off her threat to force a vote ousting the…
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian American woman to serve in Congress, is demanding the International Criminal Court issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. She made the demand in a statement Tuesday, as Democrats are grappling with deep intra-party divisions over the state of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas…
After a two-hour-long meeting Monday with the speaker, Marjorie Taylor Greene — and Capitol Hill writ large — could get a much better sense Tuesday of the future of her efforts to oust Mike Johnson from the House’s top spot. Greene (R-Ga.), along with ally Rep…
A bipartisan group of 85 House and Senate members is lining up against the Biden administration’s push to shift space-focused Air National Guardsmen into the Space Force. The lawmakers urged leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees in a letter Monday to reject the Pentagon push when their panels consider annual defense policy…
Rep. Henry Cuellar’s indictment marks the third high-profile Hispanic lawmaker to have been indicted in recent months. Critically, the influential Congressional Hispanic Caucus is coming to his defense. That’s a marked difference from how the group treated Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), a fellow member who was indicted on charges that he and his wife accepted…
If Washington elites are hell bent on continuing to fund another war, impoverishing Americans as inflation is raging, they should pick a more clever excuse…
Ian Bremmer explains how an additional $61 billion in aid and arms will, and will not, change the course of the war…
Laws that hamper Democrats are ignored.A Laws that might be used to hurt Republicans are enforced to a and often well past a the limits of the law…
Gaza War Protests Don’t Yet Rival Anti-Vietnam War Movement
