House passes key foreign aid package Whip Tom Emmer, Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise voted for Ukraine aid, while Conference Chair Elise Stefanik voted against it. Several House Republican hardliners said they ... 04/20/2024 - 1:14 pm | View Link
House passes key foreign aid package The House has passed a key foreign aid package on Saturday. Follow here for the latest live news updates from Capitol Hill. 04/20/2024 - 12:15 pm | View Link
A Beleaguered Gentleman: Speaker Mike Johnson The sky is cloudless and blue on a warm April afternoon as a cheerful Mike Johnson, seated on a beige couch next to an unlit fireplace in an office still new to him, contemplates his demise, ... 04/20/2024 - 1:48 am | View Link
WHITE HOUSE Follow the president's progress filling nearly 800 positions, among the 1,200 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service. 04/19/2024 - 12:59 pm | View Link
These Are Likely Contenders for House Speaker If Republicans Oust Johnson The last time Republicans unseated their own House speaker, it took three weeks and several implosions before they finally settled on the relatively unknown Mike Johnson (R-La.) as a replacement.Most ... 04/17/2024 - 7:07 am | View Link
Self-declared Governor of the Terrible Sand Kingdom of Arizonastan Kari Lake, talking to some IDAHO newspaper, flipped again. I guess she was hoping that the Terrible Sand People of Arizonastan don’t read the papers from there:
In an interview with the Idaho Dispatch on Saturday, Lake described the recent court decision upholding the 1864 law: “The Arizona Supreme Court said this is the law of Arizona.
“A political arm of Planned Parenthood is launching a $10 million voter engagement campaign in North Carolina to elect candidates in favor of abortion rights this year as reproductive rights surge further into the 2024 spotlight,” The Hill reports.
“Speaker Mike Johnson was drowned out by booing crowds during a speech at Columbia University where he condemned the ongoing student protests against the Gaza war,” CNBC reports.
“Johnson called on Columbia University President Minouche Shafik to resign if she could not restore order to the campus and said he would urge President Biden to take executive action against the protesters.”