Forty-two House Democrats voted with Republicans on a bill to sanction the International Criminal Court in response to its top prosecutor seeking arrest warrants against top Israeli officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The bill, led by Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Brian Mast, R-Fla., passed along bipartisan lines in a 247-155 vote on Tuesday. Two Republicans voted “present” on …
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Conaway wins Dem primary to succeed lawmaker challenging Bob Menendez for Senate
Longtime New Jersey state assemblyman Herb Conaway won the Democratic primary in New Jersey’s 3rd congressional district on Tuesday, setting him up to face a Republican challenger in November. Conaway served in the Garden State’s legislature since 1998. A late April survey by Public Policy Polling found Conaway to be the runaway favorite to win the race. He won a …
Read More »Former Navy SEAL Ryan Zinke wins GOP Montana primary
Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., has won the Republican primary against Mary Todd in the race to hold onto his Big Sky State seat in Montana’s 1st Congressional District. Zinke served as Secretary of the Interior under former President Trump for several years before launching a successful bid for Montana’s newly drawn district in the 2022 midterms. RILEY GAINES UNLEASHES ON …
Read More »Republican lawmaker’s son steals spotlight by making silly faces during speech on House floor
Despite Rep. John Rose’s impassioned speech Monday decrying last week’s conviction of former President Trump, all eyes were on the show behind him. As the Tennessee Republican spoke on the House floor, his son, 6-year-old Guy Rose, looked directly into the cameras, smiling mischievously from ear to ear. Guy Rose smiles at the camera while his dad gives a speech …
Read More »Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee says she has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, announced Sunday night that she is being treated for pancreatic cancer, but assured her constituents that she will soon be back at full strength. Jackson Lee, 74, has been representing Texas’ 18th congressional district for 30 years. “My doctors have confirmed my diagnosis for pancreatic cancer,” Jackson Lee said in a statement. “I am …
Read More »Fauci denies seeking to suppress COVID-19 lab leak origin theory
Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on Monday denied attempting to suppress the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic began as a result of a lab leak in Wuhan, China, during his opening statement before the House Oversight Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. Lawmakers proceeded to grill Fauci throughout the hearing on …
Read More »Republican Vince Fong sworn into Kevin McCarthy's old House seat
Republican Vince Fong of California was sworn into Congress on Monday after winning a special election to complete the remainder of the term of deposed former U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Fong was a member of the California State Assembly before running for the House. He was backed by former President Donald Trump and McCarthy, who watched the ceremony in …
Read More »GOP lawmaker shreds Biden's lack of ‘moral clarity’ on Taiwan
TAIPEI, TAIWAN – A top Republican on the House Taiwan Caucus is blasting President Biden for what he calls a lack of “moral clarity” on the U.S. relationship with Taiwan. Caucus co-Chair Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., spoke with Fox News Digital in Taipei as part of the first U.S. Congressional delegation to meet with Taiwan’s newly-inaugurated government. “This is the …
Read More »Texas Republican takes aim at Biden's 'unconstitutional attack' on Americans' gun rights
FIRST ON FOX: A Texas Republican is taking aim at President Biden as an enemy of Americans’ gun rights with a resolution he’s introducing Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Roger Williams, chairman of the House Small Business Committee, says his resolution highlights support for the Second Amendment’s “guarantee that the right of the people to keep and …
Read More »Speaker Johnson plans to invite Israel's Netanyahu to meet with Congress sooner rather than later
House Speaker Mike Johnson is poised to extend a formal invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of Congress amid the country’s war with terrorist group Hamas. The Louisiana Republican is expected to send the invite sometime in the next eight weeks. If not in that time frame, the Israeli prime minister could be invited …
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