Four states – Georgia, Kentucky, Idaho, and Oregon, hold primary contests on Tuesday, including several congressional showdowns that could shape key contests in the autumn battle for control of the House. And in a move that will give Republicans a bit of breathing room as they protect their fragile, razor-thin majority, voters in a California congressional district will choose a …
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Oregon State Rep. Janelle Bynum won the Democratic primary in Oregon’s 5th Congressional District on Tuesday, putting her on a collision course with the Republican incumbent, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, this fall. Bynum defeated Jamie McLeod-Skinner to advance to face Chavez-DeRemer in a race widely expected to play a significant role in deciding which party controls the House of Representatives. McLeod-Skinner narrowly …
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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., prevailed in a three-way Republican primary on Tuesday night, paving the way to an eighth term representing his deep-red Kentucky district. Massie enjoyed a decisive victory during what’s been a tumultuous period for both the House GOP and himself. The libertarian Republican was one of three GOP rebels pushing to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., …
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A top House Republican leader is accusing the International Criminal Court (ICC) of equating Israel’s democratically elected government with terror group Hamas after its chief prosecutor petitioned for arrest warrants against top officials in both. “The ICC’s decision to equate Israel with Hamas as a war criminal is a gift to terrorists around the globe and a slap in the …
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FIRST ON FOX: The House Oversight Committee is launching an investigation into the effects of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs on the U.S. military. Reps. Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., and Jim Banks, R-Ind., chairs of the Oversight panel’s subcommittees on national security and military personnel respectively, sent a letter to the head of the Pentagon’s Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity …
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One perk of covering Congress is that you get to see the Capitol statues after hours. But not always at their best. Such was the case a week ago Friday. I cut through Statuary Hall of the Capitol around 6:30 pm, et, after my TV piece about a House hearing and public broadcasting aired. I was heading home. That’s where …
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene responded to Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Monday for seeking to fundraise from her dust-up with the Georgia Republican during a chaotic House hearing last week. Crockett’s campaign filed a trademark application on Sunday for the phrase “bleach blonde bad built butch body,” to be used for hats, hoodies, socks, and t-shirts, among other things, according to …
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CNN host Jake Tapper told Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, she hit back at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., criticism of her appearance “a thousand-fold” by referring to her “bleach blonde, bad-built, butch body.” “You’ve really embraced what you said. You’re printing it on SWAG,” Tapper told Crockett on sunday. “How would you respond to say it’s inappropriate to respond to …
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President Biden’s assertion of executive privilege to prevent recordings of his interviews with special counsel Robert Hur from being released shares some similarities with former President Trump’s attempts to use privilege while in the White House, according to one legal expert. Though transcripts of Biden’s interview with Hur have already been released to a committee, the White House asserted executive …
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Long-simmering tensions within the House GOP are poised to inflame as members of Congress find themselves in the throes of the election season. Ideological, political and even personal differences that have seen Republicans’ razor-thin House majority wracked with chaos in the 118th Congress are now manifesting in lawmakers endorsing primary challengers against their incumbent colleagues. “I think every member should …
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