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Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) vowed to reporters Monday that Senate Republicans would not let the government shut down, later warning colleagues on the floor that a government shutdown would be a political loser for fellow lawmakers. “We’re not going to allow the government to shut down,” McConnell told reporters Monday as he walked…

Scott Morgan/ReutersCalifornia has ruled it will not follow in the footsteps of Colorado and Maine, with its secretary of state declining to remove Donald Trump from the state’s March 5 primary despite pressure from fellow lawmakers. While not yet commenting on the matter, the former president’s name was among a list of certified candidates released by Secretary of State Shirley Weber Thursday night. It comes despite a raft of pressure to reject Trump’s candidacy, including ...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – With lawmakers home for the holidays, there’s a lingering sense of frustration in Washington. Many say Congress was chaotic and unproductive in 2023. “We saw a year marked by chaos, extremism and paralysis,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer (R-N.Y.). “I’m not very happy with how productive the Senate has been this year,” Sen. […]

Sightings of UFOs, also known as unidentified aerial phenomenon, are growing across the U.S.

Lawmakers set up this bicameral, bipartisan committee and already met in October and November.

Marco Bello/AFP via Getty ImagesFlorida state lawmaker Michelle Salzman has come under fire for appearing to call for the deaths of all Palestinians. In an impassioned speech this week, state representative Angie Nixon called for a ceasefire and asked of her fellow lawmakers: “We are at 10,000 dead Palestinians. How many will be enough?” “All of them,” Michelle Salzman responded in a widely panned comment that she has since sought to walk back. Salzman initially calle...

What a great financial opportunity for Florida legislators. Except it sure sounds like they’d be making money on the backs of suffering homeowners. | Opinion

The nation is scrambling to learn more about Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) since House Republicans catapulted him to national prominence Wednesday with his election to an office two heartbeats from the presidency. The conservative is a bit of an enigma, even to fellow lawmakers. Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), the No. 3 Republican, said he didn’t…

Fiscal hawks in the House of Representatives have a new BFF. A group of lawmakers led by Democratic Rep. Scott Peters of California and Republican Rep. Bill Huizenga of Michigan have formed the “Bipartisan Fiscal Forum” — BFF, for short — which they say is dedicated to “sounding the alarm about our nation’s unsustainable debt trajectory and working together to get control of our fiscal future.” The lawmakers say that the group began informally bac...

The moderates, theyre the majority makers, the ones who are responsible, republicans hope, for delivering the majority to republicans next year. but the marjorie taylor greens of the conference say they have a lot of power, they know they have a lot of power when it comes to whether mccarthy will be speaker or not and theyre starting to flex the muscles. thats the dynamic were starting to see play out in the republican conference. >> if only that flexing did not require speaking ill of fellow la...