
Congress sends stopgap spending bill to Biden’s desk, averting shutdown for now | #alaska | #politics
WASHINGTON — U.S. senators voted 87-11 to approve legislation Wednesday that would fund the government into next year, clearing the measure for President Joe Biden’s signature. The stopgap spending bill, sometimes called a continuing resolution or CR, would fund part of the government until mid-January and the rest of the programs within the annual appropriations […]
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An Alabama Republican U.S. House member appears no closer to becoming Speaker. | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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- October 24, 2023
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Gary Palmer (pictured left) is one of eight candidates to replace Kevin McCarthy. A closed door Republican meeting failed to reach consensus on who should hold the gavel. Palmer’s record is coming under scrutiny following his decision to run for Speaker. The UCLA Promise Institute lists him as an election skeptic regarding the 2020 […]
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House Republicans are making a gamble with a possible Jim Jordan speakership | #elections | #alabama
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- October 17, 2023
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CNN — If House Republicans elect hard-charging Jim Jordan as speaker on Tuesday, they will be picking an election denier who is known for working to shut down the government rather than running it. The party would be ending its two-week speakership debacle, but it’d be elevating a ringleader in former President Donald Trump’s attempt […]
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Alabama GOP defies Supreme Court order for black districts with new congressional map | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Alabama seems to have defied an order from the Supreme Court by passing a redistricting map that only included one majority black district instead of two on Friday. The Supreme Court agreed with a lower-level federal court in its order for the state to include two districts that had largely black populations among its voting-aged […]
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House defense bill adds special Ukraine IG, Taiwan cyber cooperation | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
WASHINGTON — The House’s $874 billion National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2024, advanced early Thursday, would establish a special inspector general for Ukraine aid, mandate Pentagon cybersecurity cooperation with Taiwan, authorize procurement of nine battle force ships and permit some aircraft retirements. The bill is the first of three major defense bills Congress expects […]
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U.S. House GOP touts first 100 days with majority on Capitol Hill — ‘We have been hard at work and have produced results’ | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill touted their first 100 days holding the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday and criticized President Joe Biden and other prominent Democrats for lagging behind. “One thing that is abundantly clear is that the people’s House is a productive House again,” Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy […]
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How McCarthy survived House chaos and won over Matt Gaetz to clinch the speaker’s gavel | #elections | #alabama
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- January 23, 2023
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CNN — Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz strode into House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy’s office on Monday night with a list of demands. Among them: The chairmanship of a key House Armed Services subcommittee. McCarthy rejected the offer. That decision set in motion a chain of events that left Gaetz and McCarthy locked in open confrontation […]
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How McCarthy survived House chaos and won over Matt Gaetz to clinch the speaker’s gavel | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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- January 22, 2023
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CNN — Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz strode into House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy’s office on Monday night with a list of demands. Among them: The chairmanship of a key House Armed Services subcommittee. McCarthy rejected the offer. That decision set in motion a chain of events that left Gaetz and McCarthy locked in open confrontation […]
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NY Democratic reps call on McCarthy, GOP to explain when they knew of Santos’s ‘web of lies’ | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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- January 16, 2023
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New York Reps. Dan Goldman (D) and Ritchie Torres (D) sent a letter to GOP leadership demanding that they explain what they knew of Rep. George Santos’s (R-N.Y.) lies about his resume and biography, and when they knew it. “In light of recent public reporting indicating that each of you had at least some knowledge […]
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