House Republicans acknowledge they are unable to govern
Rep. Steve Scalise, their nominee to replace Speaker Kevin McCarthy, withdrew Thursday due to lack of GOP support.
By Josh Israel - October 13, 2023Rep. Steve Scalise, their nominee to replace Speaker Kevin McCarthy, withdrew Thursday due to lack of GOP support.
By Josh Israel - October 13, 2023The Senate advanced a bipartisan plan to avert a shutdown, but the House GOP refuses to support it.
By Josh Israel - September 28, 2023The GOP leadership canceled this week's votes after members of their own caucus refused to schedule four bills for a vote.
By Josh Israel - June 08, 2023House Republican leaders want to cut spending from the Inflation Reduction Act in exchange for raising the debt ceiling, despite a recent poll showing public support for it.
By Oliver Willis - April 20, 2023House Speaker Kevin McCarthy claims his caucus is ‘keeping our Commitment to America’.
By Josh Israel - April 11, 2023Fossil fuel companies have thrown their support behind the Lower Energy Costs Act.
By Josh Israel - March 28, 2023The GOP’s 11 ‘ready-to-go’ proposals targeted progressive prosecutors, immigration, abortion rights, and the IRS.
By Josh Israel - January 30, 2023The House GOP has not expressed similar concern about antisemitism among its own caucus members.
By Josh Israel - January 23, 2023Republicans will bring a bill criminalizing doctors and abortion providers to a vote as one of their first acts in the new Congress.
By Emily Singer - January 11, 2023The government would lose an estimated $185 billion in tax revenue over the next decade if the bill became law.
By Oliver Willis - January 10, 2023Without a speaker, House members cannot be sworn in, business cannot be conducted, and pay for thousands of staffers is in jeopardy.
By Emily Singer - January 06, 2023The ‘Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act’ would help wealthy tax cheats evade the law.
By Josh Israel - January 03, 2023The new House majority leader broke campaign promises and has authored just one minor law.
By Josh Israel - December 23, 2022Republican Rep.-elect George Santos lied about where he worked, his business ventures, his education, and more, according to a report by the New York Times.
By Emily Singer - December 19, 2022GOP Whip Steve Scalise is urging his caucus to oppose even a brief continuing resolution to avert a holiday crisis.
By Josh Israel - December 14, 2022Racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, and anti-LGBTQ extremism remain endemic in the Republican conference.
By Josh Israel - March 01, 2022Lawmakers promised to explore solutions to online COVID scams and online misinformation. But Republicans on the subcommittee had other plans.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - November 18, 2021But every Republican present voted against the House bill that would protect abortion rights.
By Josh Israel - September 24, 2021Republicans in Congress are now complaining that undocumented people entering the country are not required to get a COVID-19 vaccine first.
By Josh Israel - September 20, 2021President Joe Biden discussed Afghanistan just hours before Fox News and Steve Scalise accused him of ignoring it.
By Oliver Willis - August 25, 2021Republicans are very mad that the CDC is recommending mask use again.
By Josh Israel - July 28, 2021Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) demanded the media ask Democrats whether they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19.
By Emily Singer - July 22, 2021Some members of the group of Republican doctors are still spreading misinformation, however.
By Emily Singer - July 21, 2021House Minority Whip Steve Scalise made sure members of the GOP caucus voted against a resolution to condemn mass shootings in Georgia that killed eight people.
By Emily Singer - May 19, 2021On the eve of her ouster, the Wyoming Republican excoriated her fellow GOP lawmakers for being ‘at war with the Constitution’ and ‘undermining democracy’ by pushing Donald Trump’s election lies.
By Emily Singer - May 12, 2021Rep. Liz Cheney voted with Donald Trump 93% of the time, but failed to lie for him about the 2020 election.
By Josh Israel - May 05, 2021Rep. Steve Scalise’s home state of Louisiana has led the nation in homicides for 31 years, but he thinks crime should disqualify Washington, D.C., from statehood.
By Emily Singer - April 21, 2021Republicans’ milk carton stunt was ill-timed.
By Amy Lieu - April 14, 2021Republican lawmakers are upset that the vice president isn’t buying into fearmongering rhetoric about a ‘crisis’ at the U.S.-Mexico border.
By Amy Lieu - March 23, 2021Republicans voted to return to a system they banned a decade ago.
By Josh Israel - March 17, 2021