Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.) recently questioned President Barack Obama’s birthplace and patriotism, then quickly apologized for the comments. The Denver NBC affiliate 9NEWS first broke the story and posted the audio online late Wednesday night.
Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.) recently questioned President Barack Obama’s birthplace and patriotism, then quickly apologized for the comments. The Denver NBC affiliate 9NEWS first broke the story and posted the audio online late Wednesday night.
Rep. Tom Rooney (Fla.) Thursday lashed out at fellow Republican Rep. Justin Amash, accusing the Michigan lawmaker of wanting to "coddle foreign enemy combatants."
The Senate Banking Committee today invited JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon to testify on the bank’s recent $2 billion trading loss as part of the panel’s upcoming hearings on implementing the Wall Street reform law.
Capitol Police are ramping up surveillance on the House side of the Hill after a rash of robberies in Member and committee offices, leaders of the panel with jurisdiction over campus security said today.
Speaker John Boehner today declined to repudiate an outside group for considering running campaign ads against President Barack Obama that tie him to his former spiritual adviser, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Such an approach was largely shunned by Republicans during the 2008 campaign.
House Democrats on Thursday unveiled new voting rights legislation designed to modernize voter registration while cracking down on practices that could discourage certain populations from voting.
Opening a new front in the GOP’s ongoing bid to end public campaign financing, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has called on the chairs of the Democratic and Republican National Committees to reject public funding for their upcoming party conventions.
Democratic Sens. Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and Bob Casey (Pa.) are introducing legislation today that would impose strict penalties on Americans seeking to renounce their citizenship to avoid paying taxes, like Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin.
House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa came out of a morning meeting with House leadership today vowing to respond forcefully to a Tuesday letter from the Department of Justice, but the California Republican did not have an answer on whether House Republicans will hold the attorney general in contempt of Congress.
The National Republican Congressional Committee announced today that eight GOP House candidates are one step closer to earning the committee’s top-tier Young Guns status.
Rep. David Cicilline, one of the most endangered House Democrats this cycle, might not even make it out of the September primary, according to a pollconducted for Rhode Island television affiliate WPRI.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee combined to raise $40.1 million in April and closed the month with $61.4 million in cash on hand.
The unbearable mugginess that heralds summer in Washington, D.C., has already begun to choke the area, so we might as well enjoy the spoils of the season, too.
