House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) weighed in on Tuesday’s dustups between GOP lawmakers in both chambers, calling it “another episode of ‘Republicans Gone Wild.'” When asked about his feelings toward the tension in the Republican party, Jeffries responded by criticizing his Republican colleagues for not focusing on more important issues than their disagreements. “We…
It’s hardly the “shot heard ‘round the world,” but the “shot to the kidney” former Speaker Kevin McCarthy sneakily delivered to Freedom Caucus foe Rep. Tim Burchett was the buzz of the Capitol Tuesday. It all started here:Reprinted with permission from Daily Kos.
In a sign of how tense the dynamics are in the House Republican conference GOP Rep. Tim Burchett accused Kevin McCarthy of elbowing him in the back while he was talking to a reporter after the House GOP conference meeting.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday said he doesn’t view it as his “responsibility” to police the behavior of other Republicans, especially aggressive physical behavior, acknowledging it’s “very difficult to control the behavior of everybody who’s in the building.” McConnell said he was not aware of two incidents from earlier in the…
Florida's Matt Gaetz filed a formal ethics complaint on the exchange, demanding the chamber investigate his longtime nemesis, California's Kevin McCarthy.
Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) accused former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) of consistently lying in comments Tuesday. “Kevin McCarthy and lying are like peanut butter and jelly,” Buck said in a CNN interview when asked about McCarthy’s response to an accusation by Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) that the former speaker elbowed him in a Capitol…