U.S. Congress
Another debate, another night of brazen lying about Trump’s history of trying to kill the Affordable Care Act.
“I think 22 years is pretty good,” the Arizona congressman, who has been battling cancer since February, said in an interview with a local news outlet.
John Lee, who is running against Congressional Black Caucus chair Steven Horsford, also called the caucus “the most racist people in the world.”
Congress has kept the government’s lights on. But by failing to do much more, it carved its own niche in history.
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Israeli forces fatally shot the Turkish American activist this month in the West Bank, which the military claims was an accident despite contradicting evidence.
If the filibuster is the “Holy Grail” of democracy, there aren’t many democracies in the world.
Economists have said big hikes on imported goods could make them more expensive to consumers.
The symbolic pledge is a rebuke of the former president’s authoritarian tendencies and the Supreme Court’s recent presidential immunity decision.
Congressional leaders have a deal on a short-term spending bill that will fund federal agencies for about three months.
Rep. Virginia Foxx later withdrew her ask after Rep. Sean Casten cited Martin Luther King Jr. in his remarks.