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Print this article Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to receive the newsletter. WHY HOUSE REPUBLICANS HAVE HAD IT WITH LIZ CHENEY. On January 25, Republican Representative Dan Newhouse sent out a press release announcing that he had been chosen to serve as one of his party's assistant whips. "I'm honored to have been selected," Newhouse said. GOP Whip Steve Scalise, who chose Newhouse, added, "I'm very excited to welcome Dan to the Whip Team for the 117th Congress." Twelve days earlier, on January 13, Newhouse voted to impeach President Donald Trump. Newhouse, who had gotten wo...

New York Loses House Seat After Coming Up 89 People Short on Census New population figures released on Monday confirmed that after the latest census, New York would lose a congressional seat, but only by the narrowest of margins. Even with the loss, New York will retain one of the most powerful delegations in Congress, one that includes Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a prominent progressive congresswoman.Credit...Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters April 26, 2021Updated 6:30 p.m. ET New York’s congressional delegation will shrink by one seat af...

Mayorkas defends Biden's border policies amid surge of migrant children Nicole Sganga © JOSHUA ROBERTS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Alejandro Mayorkas Washington — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday defended the Biden administration's handling of the surge of unaccompanied migrant children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, telling lawmakers that the government is working to expand its capacity to handle the influx of minors. Mayorkas testified before the House Homeland Security Committee in his first hearing as the head of overseeing the sprawling Dep...

As our sister publication Townhall reported, “The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which would essentially eliminate freelancers and the gig economy. The bill passed 225 to 206. Five Republicans joined Democrats in voting for the act.’ As we have seen so clearly over the past year, it’s less about the letter before your state, and more about who is putting the feed in your trough; and how much. The PRO Act is a clear “gimme” to the big Labor Unions, so signing on for the destruction of 57 million Americans ability to pursue w...

February 20, 2021 Share Jolted by a sweeping hack that may have revealed government and corporate secrets to Russia, U.S. officials are scrambling to reinforce the nation’s cyber defenses and recognizing that an agency created two years ago to protect America’s networks and infrastructure lacks the money, tools and authority to counter such sophisticated threats. The breach, which hijacked widely used software from Texas-based SolarWinds Inc., has exposed the profound vulnerability of civilian government networks and the limitations of efforts to detect threats. It’s also likely...