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GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy Chastises Marjorie Taylor Greene Over Holocaust Remarks

By NPR News May 25, 2021

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks with reporters last week. Win McNamee/Getty Images

Nearly four months after condemning Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's comments on antisemitic conspiracy theories, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is once again rejecting the Georgia Republican's rhetoric — this time over her equating of COVID-19 safety measures with the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust.Read More

House Passes Bill To Investigate Capitol Riot, But Fate In Senate Is Unclear As McConnell Opposes

By NPR News May 19, 2021

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is opposing a 9/11-style commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. CREDIT: Jacquelyn Martin/AP

The House has passed a bipartisan plan to create a 9/11-style commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, despite significant opposition from Republican lawmakers.Read More

Kevin McCarthy, Top House Republican, Opposes Bipartisan Commission To Probe U.S. Capitol Attack

By NPR News May 18, 2021

Protesters gesture to U.S. Capitol Police in the hallway outside of the Senate chamber inside the Capitol on Wednesday. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy came out Tuesday against a bipartisan proposal to establish a 9/11-style commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The announcement comes a day before the House of Representatives is slated to vote on the legislation.Read More

House Republicans Ousts Liz Cheney From Leadership Over Her Criticism Of Donald Trump

By NPR News May 12, 2021

Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, seen here outside the U.S. Capitol on March 11, has been removed from a House leadership role. She beat back an effort in February. CREDIT: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

House Republicans have removed Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming as conference chair in retaliation for her unyielding criticism of former President Donald Trump, his continued false claims of a stolen election, his role in the Jan. 6 riot and his future in the Republican Party.Read More

‘America Is On The Move Again,’ President Biden Says In Address To Congress Ahead Of 100th Day

By NPR News April 28, 2021

President Joe Biden addressed a joint session of Congress, his first since becomming president, on April 28, 2021, a day before his 100th day in office. It was a smaller event than the normal State of the Union address, with only several hundred in the chamber and no special guests, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

"America is on the move again," President Biden said in his first joint address to Congress Wednesday night, remarks given amid the coronavirus pandemic. "Turning peril into possibility. Crisis into opportunity. Setback into strength."Read More

Where Efforts To Overhaul Policing Stand In Congress After Derek Chauvin Verdict

By NPR News April 21, 2021

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks alongside members of the Congressional Black Caucus on Tuesday following the verdict against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. Jose Luis Magana/AP

With the verdict against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin now in for the murder of George Floyd, attention is turning to Congress and whether lawmakers can meet the growing demand from across the nation for meaningful changes to policing.Read More

Democrats Unveil Long-Shot Plan To Expand Size Of Supreme Court From 9 To 13

By NPR News April 16, 2021

Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson (from left), Sen. Ed Markey, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler and Rep. Mondaire Jones announce legislation Thursday to expand the number of seats on the U.S. Supreme Court outside the high court. CREDIT: J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Liberal congressional Democrats unveiled a proposal Thursday to expand the number of seats on the U.S. Supreme Court from nine to 13 — a move Republicans have blasted as "court packing" and which has almost no chance of being voted on after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she has "no plans to bring it to the floor.Read More

U.S. House Gives Final Approval To $1.9 Trillion COVID-19 Relief Bill, No Republicans Support

By NPR News March 10, 2021

The U.S. House passed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 economic relief bill on Wednesday, March 10, 2021 with no Republican support in the U.S. House or Senate. CREDIT: CSPAN

The House voted 220-211 with no Republicans voting in favor of the bill, despite calls for bipartisan support from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other Democratic leaders. One Democrat, Rep. Jared Golden, voted against the bill.Read More

House Removes Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene From Her Committee Assignments

By NPR News February 4, 2021

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., faces a vote over whether she should be removed from her two committee assignments because her past comments and social media posts promoting conspiracy theories and violence. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images

The House of Representatives has voted to strip Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments, following uproar over her past incendiary comments and apparent support of violence against Democrats. The vote was 230 to 199.Read More

Central Washington GOP Leaders Demand Dan Newhouse Resign Over Impeachment Vote

By NWPB News January 26, 2021

Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., speaks as the House of Representatives debates the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. CREDIT: House TV-AP

Most of the Republican county leaders in U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse’s congressional district on Monday called for the lawmaker to resign for being one of 10 GOP members of the House to vote for the impeachment of former President Donald Trump. Newhouse said he will not resign.Read More

House Passes 25th Amendment Resolution As Pence Says He Won’t Back It. Impeachment Vote Looms

By NPR News January 12, 2021

U.S. House vote for the 25th Amendment resolution was 223 in favor, 205 opposed

The House of Representatives is expected to vote Tuesday evening on a resolution calling for Vice President Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment against President Trump, days after violent insurrectionists breached the U.S. Capitol.Read More

Louisiana Congressman-Elect Luke Letlow, 41, Dies From COVID-19, Days Ahead Of Swearing In

By NPR News December 30, 2020

Louisiana's Congressman-elect Luke Letlow

Congressman-elect Luke Letlow, who won a runoff earlier this month to represent Louisiana's northeastern 5th District, died Tuesday from complications of COVID-19. Letlow was set to be sworn in as U.S. representative on Jan. 3.Read More

President Trump Signs COVID-19 Relief Deal After His Criticism Threatened To Derail It

By NPR News December 27, 2020

President Trump, seen here at the White House on Dec. 12, has signed the coronavirus relief package. CREDIT: Al Drago/Getty Images

President Trump on Sunday night signed a massive coronavirus relief and spending package, relenting on a measure he had called a "disgrace" days earlier. The legislation, which combines $900 billion in COVID-19 aid with government funding through September 2021, was passed by large majorities in both houses of Congress on Dec. 21 — only to see Trump blindside legislators Read More

‘All Is Not Calm’: Congress Scrambles After President Trump Blasts COVID-19 Relief Package

By NPR News December 24, 2020

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., holds a press conference Sunday. Congress is scrambling after President Trump blasted a major aid and spending package that lawmakers passed Monday. CREDIT: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

With millions of Americans waiting for desperately needed economic aid, a massive relief package remains in limbo as President Trump weighs whether to sign it into law.Read More

Congressional Leaders Reach $900 Billion Deal On Coronavirus Aid, Includes $600 Stimulus Payments

By NPR News December 21, 2020

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wearing a face mask - December 2020

After months of partisan squabbling, congressional leaders have reached agreement on a nearly $900 billion COVID-19 relief package. "At long last, we have the bipartisan breakthrough the country has needed," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on the Senate floor Sunday evening.Read More

U.S. House Approves Decriminalizing Marijuana; Bill To Stall In GOP-Controlled Senate

By NPR News December 4, 2020

Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon has been pushing for federal decriminalization laws for years and argued Americans already showed support by voting to legalize cannabis in states across the country. CREDIT: House Television via AP

The legislation removes cannabis from the list of federally controlled substances and expunges low-level convictions and arrests. But the GOP Senate is not expected to take up the bill.Read More

How A Record Number Of Republican Women Got Elected To Congress

By NPR News November 13, 2020

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., took it upon herself to help boost women's numbers in a party dominated by white men. CREDIT: Jacquelyn Martin/AP

The number of GOP women elected in 2020 pales in comparison with Democrats' numbers, but their increased representation may attest to the power of focused recruitment efforts. Read More

After Delays, Republicans Rolled Out A New Pandemic Relief Bill. Democrats Balked

By NPR News July 27, 2020

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., left, with President Trump at the White House. The GOP has unveiled a new pandemic relief bill but tough negotiations lie ahead with Democrats. Evan Vucci/AP

After days of delays, congressional Republicans unveiled their $1 trillion proposal for a fifth wave of pandemic relief. Democrats are not on board — signaling tough negotiations ahead.Read More

Lawmakers Are Far Apart On A New Coronavirus Relief Bill. Here Are 5 Sticking Points

By NPR News July 20, 2020

Demonstrators in Florida ask senators to support the continuation of boosted unemployment benefits. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

State governments face a precipitous drop in revenue, parents and teachers are debating how kids will return to school in the fall, and millions of unemployed workers face the prospect of their pandemic assistance running out at the end of the month.Read More

How Tea Party Budget Battles Left The National Emergency Medical Stockpile Unprepared

By NWPB News April 5, 2020

File photo. Don Wood, an official with the Strategic National Stockpile, awaits another truck load of medications in Salt Lake City, Utah during a swine flu outbreak from the H1N1 virus in 2009. The pandemic that year prompted the largest use to date of the stockpile, which was created in 1999. It has never confronted anything on the scale of the current COVID-19 pandemic. CREDIT: Francisco Kjolseth/AP

Dire shortages of vital medical equipment in the Strategic National Stockpile that are now hampering the coronavirus response trace back to the budget wars of the Obama years, when congressional Republicans elected on the Tea Party wave forced the White House to accept sweeping cuts to federal spending.Read More