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Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, U.S. Congress, War in Ukraine, World News
Senate Republicans Dec. 6 blocked an emergency spending bill to provide billions of dollars in wartime aid to Ukraine and Israel while calling for strict new policies at the U.S.-Mexico border opposed by some Catholic immigration advocates.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., told reporters on Capitol Hill Dec. 5 that he would end his monthslong blockade on hundreds of military promotions undertaken in protest of a Pentagon abortion policy.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray sparred with Republicans during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Dec. 5 about a leaked and withdrawn memo from the bureau’s Richmond, Virginia, field office about political extremism in some Catholic groups.
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ong-simmering tensions between Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., and his fellow Senate Republicans spilled into the open Nov. 1, as they challenged his blockade on the confirmations of senior military nominees over the Pentagon’s abortion policy.
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Republican Conference Vice Chair Mike Johnson (R-La.) was elected U.S. House speaker Oct. 25 following the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy and a series of failed GOP nominees to replace him.
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Filed Under: Commentary, U.S. Congress
Our politics stands badly in need of an infusion of decency and idealism.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Congress, World News
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., withdrew his name from consideration for Speaker of the House Oct. 12, a day after he received his party’s nomination.
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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., was nominated by his fellow Republicans for speaker of the House Oct. 11, but questions remained whether Scalise can get enough votes from his party to become speaker in a vote before the whole House.
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Filed Under: 2024 Election, Feature, News, U.S. Congress, World News
Former Vice President Mike Pence Oct. 3 called himself “deeply disappointed” by California Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as speaker of the House of Representatives that same day, after eight House Republicans joined with Democrats to remove McCarthy from the role, the first such move in the history of the U.S. House.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Congress, World News
Kevin McCarthy was ousted as speaker of the House of Representatives Oct. 3, after eight House Republicans joined with Democrats to remove him from the role in a historic vote, setting the stage for a contentious process to elect a new speaker.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News
Legislation recently introduced by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and 25 of his fellow House Republicans and a companion bill sponsored by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, in the Senate, seeks the repeal of the 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, or FACE, Act, calling it an unconstitutional weaponized use of federal power.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Congress, World News
Congress passed a stopgap funding measure Sept. 30, just a few hours before its deadline to avert a federal government shutdown.
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