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Former senior investigative reporter at ThinkProgress and former head of money-in-politics reporting at the Center for Public Integrity.
Rep. Ralph Abraham announced a scorched-earth tactic to kick the House speaker out of Congress for doing her job.
By Josh Israel - October 08, 2019
Rep. Jim Banks is pushing to divest Chinese and Russian holdings from federal retirement accounts.
By Josh Israel - October 08, 2019
Trump claimed EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland would be “testifying before a totally compromised kangaroo court.”
By Josh Israel - October 08, 2019
New Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia is already pushing a reverse Robin Hood scheme to let restaurant owners effectively take tips from servers to save themselves money.
By Josh Israel - October 08, 2019
House Republicans are repeating Donald Trump’s conspiracy theory that the Intelligence chair should be punished for talking about the transcript the White House released.
By Josh Israel - October 07, 2019
Gov. Mike DeWine promised to ‘do something’ after a deadly shooting earlier this year. Now he’s reversing course.
By Josh Israel - October 07, 2019
The White House notably waited until the summer was over to try to submit the deal to Congress.
By Josh Israel - October 07, 2019
Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the EU, told Sen. Ron Johnson of Trump withholding aid funds to Ukraine, allegedly in exchange for an investigation into Joe Biden. Then he told his colleague not to worry about it.
By Josh Israel - October 04, 2019
A new campaign ad says donations to Sen. Mitch McConnell will help him stop impeachment.
By Josh Israel - October 04, 2019
‘We would have to take a look,’ is his best answer.
By Josh Israel - October 04, 2019
One month ago, the North Carolina Republicans’ most recent gerrymander was struck down by the courts. Now they are trying to pretend state Democrats are the ones engaged in shenanigans.
By Josh Israel - October 03, 2019
A new finalized rule will let states opt to require drug testing for many people just trying to get their unemployment insurance benefits.
By Josh Israel - October 03, 2019
$100 billion is actually much less than $1 trillion.
By Josh Israel - October 03, 2019
Former Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) participated in a how-to-gerrymander training for right-wing lawmakers in August.
By Josh Israel - October 02, 2019
GOP leaders in Prince William County did what national Republicans still have not done with Donald Trump.
By Josh Israel - October 02, 2019
Trump has repeatedly claimed his border wall is ‘going up rapidly’ or simply needs to be finished.
By Josh Israel - October 02, 2019
Collins resigned from Congress on Monday and pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to commit securities fraud.
By Josh Israel - October 01, 2019
The Senate’s most senior Republican indirectly scolded Trump for threatening the Ukraine scandal whistleblower.
By Josh Israel - October 01, 2019
So much for draining the swamp.
By Josh Israel - September 27, 2019
Maria Butina plead guilty to conspiracy charges after working to infiltrate the National Rifle Association and other conservative groups.
By Josh Israel - September 27, 2019
The House followed the Senate’s lead, passing a resolution to terminate Trump’s national emergency on Friday. But the vast majority of Republicans sided with Trump.
By Josh Israel - September 27, 2019
The Morning Consult polls showed the number of Republicans backing impeachment proceedings doubled after the Ukraine scandal become public.
By Josh Israel - September 26, 2019
After months of Mitch McConnell blocking virtually all legislation in the Senate, Republicans are now blaming the impeachment inquiry for their legislative impotence.
By Josh Israel - September 26, 2019
Tom Homan melted down after Rep. Pramila Jayapal tried to enforce his time limits. He claimed she ‘worked for’ him.
By Josh Israel - September 26, 2019
Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire shot down one of the GOP’s key talking points.
By Josh Israel - September 26, 2019
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) dismissed concerns that Trump violated the law with his request to the Ukrainian president.
By Josh Israel - September 25, 2019
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) noted that Trump’s attorney general, William Barr, was the one who decided to make the whistleblower complaint disappear.
By Josh Israel - September 25, 2019
Trump has repeatedly insisted the memorandum of his conversation would prove he did ‘nothing wrong.’
By Josh Israel - September 25, 2019
Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) wants to pretend that there is no impeachment inquiry and that the Ukraine scandal is all a ploy to distract.
By Josh Israel - September 25, 2019
Trump’s Twitter rant about his impending impeachment inquiry is just plain false.
By Josh Israel - September 24, 2019