Anyone who was expecting the Republican-controlled Congress to provide meaningful checks and balances on Donald Trump’s administration is in for a rude awakening, courtesy of House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT). Trump’s cabinet nominees have recently come under fire for failing to file their disclosure paperwork with the Office of Government Ethics (OGE), and Senate […]

One of the most powerful moments of CNN’s town hall event with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) was former Obamacare opponent Jeff Jeans’ moving tale of discovering he had treatable cancer, but could only receive treatment because of the Affordable Care Act. Jeans even took the moment to thank President Obama: TAPPER: He […]

.@HouseGOP wants to "cut and run." Cut Americans' health care benefits, and run from the consequences. — Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) January 12, 2017 In a press conference signaling that Democrats would fight hard to protect the Affordable Care Act, Rep. Nancy Pelosi stepped up to the plate to defend the ACA’s achievements in care for seniors […]

Donald Trump ended a week that began well for him — then quickly deteriorated — by firing off a series of tweets that did not just allege, but clearly stated as fact, the lie that President Obama had wiretapped his campaign offices at Trump Tower during the presidential election: Terrible! Just found out that Obama […]

This piece was co-written by Shareblue staff writers Dianna E. Anderson and Ginger McKnight-Chavers. In an unprecedented move, several members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) testified before the Senate Judiciary committee at the Attorney General nomination hearing for Senator Jeff Sessions. These members were relegated by the committee’s schedule to the final hours of […]

Khizr Khan was invited to speak at a public forum on Donald Trump’s Muslim ban executive order, hosted by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. Rather than “explaining the atrocities” of the first days of Trump’s presidency “inflicted on my country and my nation,” Khan fervently implored House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Democrats in Congress to […]

In a daily briefing to the press, Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) minced no words in her comments on Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s Chief Strategist. Trump recently gave Bannon a permanent seat on the National Security Council, while downgrading the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and members of the Defense Department to a “need […]

On January 8th, Representatives Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and Katherine Clark (D-MA) both announced that they would not be attending Donald Trump’s inauguration. Gutierrez said he “could not look at my wife, my daughters, or my grandson in the eye” if he attended. And Clark commented that, after many discussions with her constituents, she did not want […]

44 years ago today, the Supreme Court handed down an immensely important and controversial decision which reproductive justice activists have been working to protect ever since. In the case of Roe v. Wade, the court declared that a person’s decision to have an abortion was protected by the right to privacy guaranteed by the Due […]

Repealing Obamacare is a worse idea than anyone could have imagined, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office. The depth and severity of the results will be difficult to convey in headlines and soundbites. To cut through some of the likely confusion, here is a brief breakdown of what the report says. The report finds that […]

Every sworn-in House Democrat has now signed on to sponsor Rep. Elijah Cummings’ and Rep. Eric Swalwell’s Protecting Our Democracy Act, which would establish a “12-member, bipartisan, independent commission empowered to interview witnesses, obtain documents, issue subpoenas, and receive public testimony to examine attempts by the Russian government or others to use electronic means to […]

So far, the Republican effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act has been a disaster, and the latest stunt from Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and his fellow House Republicans is an utter farce. Ryan and the House leadership have placed the draft legislation in a sealed room in the basement of the U.S. […]

Following Michael Flynn’s resignation from his very brief stint as National Security Advisor, Donald Trump offered the position to retired Vice Admiral and former Navy SEAL Robert Harward. But Harward turned down the job, reportedly over concerns regarding instability in the White House and other staffing choices made by Trump. CNN’s Jake Tapper flagged a […]

At the end of the last Congressional term, Rep. Elijah Cummings, the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Eric Swalwell, the ranking member of the CIA Subcommittee of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, introduced legislation calling for the creation of a bipartisan, independent commission to investigate […]

Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) seems to always know the right thing to say. Before Donald Trump’s inauguration, he channeled what many of us were (and still are) feeling: “I don’t see this president-elect as a legitimate president.” Now, as the resistance builds against a presidency that gets worse with every passing day, Lewis fortifies us for the fight ahead: And I […]

When House Democrats met to discuss Donald Trump’s moves toward gutting the consumer protections and financial regulations of the Dodd-Frank Act, Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) had strong messages for Trump. When Waters was asked about her recent comments, wherein she stated that her “greatest desire” is to lead Trump “right […]

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has been a crucial voice in calls to investigate interference in our presidential election by the Russians, and the connections and potential collusion between the Russian government and Donald Trump’s campaign and administration. And on Meet the Press, she showed that she is not about to back down: The American […]

.@SpeakerRyan's office sent 6 security guards to block delivery of 87K #IStandWithPP petitions telling Ryan not to defund Planned Parenthood pic.twitter.com/56QHwhjR2q — Planned Parenthood Action (@PPact) January 6, 2017 In the first week of the 115th Congress, House Speaker Paul Ryan is already pursuing a long-time conservative goal: Defunding Planned Parenthood. As part of the […]

As House Republicans voted on the new congressional rules package for the 115th Congress, many passages drew controversy, including a provision to unconstitutionally fine legislators for taking video footage on the House floor, and an attempt to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics. But one passage made it through without attention from the corporate media: A provision that […]

With families already being torn apart as a result of Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda, members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus were looking forward to meeting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials to discuss the current and future impact on their communities. However, ICE abruptly cancelled the meeting that had been arranged earlier this week, […]

President-elect Donald Trump has received scrutiny for his eyebrow-raising authoritarian proposals, such as stripping citizenship from political protestors and maintaining a private security force to eject anyone he pleases from his events. But he is not the only Republican resorting to authoritarian threats — House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) is joining in. In June, a group of Democratic representatives […]

Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI), a Donald Trump supporter and congressman from Michigan’s second district, marshaled an unusual and absurd argument against the Affordable Care Act recently, telling a local paper that patients should be responsible for holding down costs by delaying or foregoing treatment based on costs. But even more repugnant is the story he […]

As the 115th Congress is sworn in, it is important to remember that, while Republicans maintain control over both the Senate and the House of Representatives, they will be joined by twelve new female colleagues who bring a diversity of backgrounds — and a readiness to fight — to the table. Indeed, the Democratic caucus taking […]

Rep. Paul Ryan was reelected as Speaker of the House today, maintaining his position as third in line to the presidency. During remarks following his reelection, Ryan expressed “optimism” for the impending Donald Trump presidency and waxed poetic about the patriotism of House members — despite the fact that his party endeavors to stymie efforts […]

Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) threw down the gauntlet against President-elect Donald Trump recently, declaring in an appearance on MSNBC that she has “no intention in pretending everything is alright, that we’re going to work together,” and promising, particularly in her role as a ranking member of the Financial Services Committee, that she is “going to […]

A group of former congressional staffers — Ezra Levin, Angel Padilla, and Jeremy Haile — has published a crucial guide to the coming resistance against a Donald Trump administration, providing action steps and advice for Democrats seeking ways to fight back against an authoritarian and dangerous Republican government. The hope, they write in the introduction, is for “stiffening […]

Concerned, unlike most of her Republican colleagues, about Russian interference in the U.S. election, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is again calling for a bipartisan, independent review. Elections determine the future our children will inherit. Given the alarming magnitude, seriousness and scope of Russia’s efforts to undermine U.S. elections, we must have an independent, bipartisan […]

We are in the midst of a national crisis: The U.S. intelligence community has confirmed that Russia interfered in the election, in order to help Donald Trump get elected. They now have evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin was orchestrating the interference. This was not, as Trump has suggested, just some hacker sitting on his […]

House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has issued a statement echoing Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) call for a bipartisan Congressional investigation into Russian interference in the election, urgently noting: “There must be no equivocation or ignoring the seriousness of the intelligence community’s conclusion about Russia’s actions.” Her statement is as blunt as it […]

A federal court has ordered that North Carolina’s heavily gerrymandered state districts be redrawn and that the state must hold new primaries for state-level representatives in September 2017 followed by a general election in November 2017. The case, Covington vs. the State of North Carolina, argued that race-based districting — like that in North Carolina, where […]