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Pursuant to House Rule XI Clause 3(q)(1), Thursday the Chairman of the Committee on Ethics, Representative Michael Guest, and the Ranking Member, Representative Susan Wild, submitted a report to the House of Representatives in the Matter of Allegations Relating to Representative George Santos.

In what has already been a major year for the Clean Water Act, there’s now another attempt to redefine its scope. On October 17, the Clean Water Act of 2023 was introduced by ranking...

Charles Rangel Fast Facts Here’s a look at the life of former US Congressman Charles Rangel, who represented New York from 1971 to 2017. Personal Birth place: New York, New York (Harlem) Birth name: Charles Bernard Rangel Father: Ralph Rangel Sr. Children: Steven and Alicia Military service: US Army, 1948-1952 Religion: Roman Catholic Timeline 1948-1952 – In the US Army, receives the Purple Heart and Bronze Star with Valor while serving in Korea. 1961-1962 – Assistant US Attorney for th...

>> thank you for having me. >> i want to talk about the future of health care. first i want to get your reaction to the latest news involving the russia meddling in the u.s. investigation election, specifically that president trump son-in-law, key advisor jared kushner will meet with your colleagues on the senate intelligence committee to discuss this. what do you make of that development? >> clearly theres concern about what russia did. again t may be as your reporter said t may be a drip, drip...

Covered for pre-existing conditions without mandates and -- that bill did not achieve what president trump pledged. i think we need to fill that pledge in a responsible way and lower premiums. that bill did not do so. the only folk that were for it were probably republican leadership on the house side. im not saying there werent things there having to operate with. they did. but still i think president trumps original pledge is where we need to be. that way hell be full throat the behind it and ...

Behalf. >> have you taken a look at your democratic colleague? to get to 60 eight democrats would need to join s. that realistic from the head county presumably youve done? >> chuck schumer and, i join chuck in encouraging my colleagues to not support neil gorsuch for this opening, so we shall see. i dont think that the republicans have 60 votes and i definitely think that someone whos going to go to the highest court of the land should have a higher threshold requirement so that we can be assur...

I tried to press chairman nunes to explain whether or not this came from the white house. he would not say. he said i cant go anywhere. i will not rule people in or out. but now hes suggesting the information did come at least on white house grounds. now, just in the last hour mr. nunes facing more question bs whether there was a white house source involved. told a bloomberg -- still we also dont know what was actually in the information that he revealed publicly, the committee itself has not se...

This according to a spokesman who put out a statement saying that chairman nunes met with a source at the white house grounds in order to have proximity to a secure location where he could view the information provided by the source. the chairman is extremely concerned by the possible improper upmasking of names of u.s. citizens and the statement goes on to say he had been looking into this issue even before president trump tweeted that he had been spied on by president obama under the orders of...

Fairly soon. start answering reporters questions. lots of news happening today. were going to bring you live coverage. after suffering a singy defeat to health care president trump lashed out at democrats blaming them for the loss. the white house chief of staff reince priebus is feeling more c. >> -- at the end of the day i think that democrats can come to the table as well. >> let me bring in senator of hawaii. shes a dremocrat. senator, thanks for joining us. is this a welcome signal from t...

Expressing their displeasure with trumpcare and so if the president wants to come forward and talk about improving the affordable care act, then thats a good sign. but if its just to redo trumpcare which kept getting worse by the way by the minute as they tried to corral republican votes, thats not going to be much. >> you think theres a group of bipartisan representatives and senators, democrats and republicans who can work with the president in improving health care in america? is that wishful...