The resolute refusal of South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, the House Oversight Committee chairman, to do his job and pursue misconduct by Donald Trump has infuriated House Democrats at every turn. And none more so than Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, the committee’s ranking member. Appearing on MSNBC Saturday morning, Cummings described the exasperating lengths […]

On Thursday, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) announced that he would be resigning from Congress in January. But January came early, as just one day later, Franks released a new statement that he would instead be resigning effective immediately, due in part to his wife’s unspecified “ongoing ailment.” What’s the reason for Franks’ sudden expedited schedule? In his original […]

It’s clear Republicans in Congress now see their main job as protecting Donald Trump from further scandalous revelations, rather than shedding light on the facts. That’s according to Maryland Democrat Elijah Cummings, ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. In an appearance on CNN Friday, Cummings discussed the explosive letter released earlier this week, detailing a […]

Rep. Pete Sessions is a key target for Democrats in 2018, and for good reason. Texas’s 32nd Congressional District, located in Dallas, is not nearly as conservative as it used to be. Hillary Clinton carried it by 2 points. Despite this, Sessions continues to represent the district as a relentless GOP partisan, voting with Trump […]

Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) has announced that he will retire from the House of Representatives. The announcement comes after it was revealed that he paid a settlement to a former staffer after she alleged that he fired her because she turned down his sexual advances. Another woman who worked for Conyers has alleged that he […]

In their haste to help Donald Trump throw immigrants out of the country and separate parents from their children, some Republicans appear to have forgotten the Constitution — including Indiana Rep. Todd Rokita. Rokita, who next year will be running against Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly, wants to get rid of “sanctuary cities” — cities where […]

Speaker Paul Ryan and his fellow Republicans in Congress have spent the last year infuriating the American people with plots to take away their health care, the latest of which is not-so-subtly tucked into their corporate tax scam for billionaires. Their refusal to act as any sort of check on Donald Trump’s excesses, or corrupt […]

Republicans were rocked earlier this year by their failure to repeal Obamacare amid a wave of protest from the American people. Desperate to walk away with at least one major legislative success this year, they are now struggling to pass a tax scheme which is nearly as unpopular. But Republicans have much bigger problems now […]

Of the 14 lawmakers who have already announced their retirement from the House in advance of next year’s midterm election cycle, 12 are Republicans. That GOP stampede for the door will likely grow stronger in coming weeks as more members face filing deadlines and have to decide if they want to raise the required millions in […]

Ever since Donald Trump capriciously decided to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the future of 800,000 young, skilled immigrants has hung in the balance. Republicans in Congress have frequently promised action to protect the DREAMers with legislation. But so far, no real bipartisan solution has materialized. One of the main reasons […]

Virginia + Alabama = jeopardy for the GOP. That’s the formula more and more campaign forecasters are now working with as they try to calculate just how much trouble Republicans face in next year’s midterm election cycle, and specifically in the House, where Democrats need to flip 24 seats to take control of the chamber. […]

On Thursday, House Republicans passed their deeply unpopular tax scam that most Americans don’t want. And they actually — and rather callously — applauded themselves for doing it. All but 13 Republicans, several of them in competitive races next year, voted to raise taxes on middle-class Americans so that millionaires and corporations can pocket handouts. […]

On Tuesday, both Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Sean Hannity unveiled stunning new flow charts that were supposed to help track the myriad of players who make up the latest phony Clinton scandal – the seven-year-old sale of a Canadian uranium company. It was a sale then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was only tangentially involved […]

Attorney General Jeff Sessions returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to yet again try to explain the extent of his contacts with Russian surrogates during the 2016 campaign. Sessions’ story keeps changing, usually based on news revelations that contradict whatever he has most recently said on the topic. And as California Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu […]

The revelations that Roy Moore is accused of sexually assaulting two teenagers and aggressively preying on several others has prompted a wave of condemnation from GOP leadership. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan have both said that Moore should bow out of the race. Fellow Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby believes Republicans should […]

Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) has announced that he will not be running for re-election, just days after Democrats racked up huge victories in Virginia. He currently serves as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee under Trump loyalist Speaker Paul Ryan. “After much contemplation and prayer, we decided it was the right time for me to […]

In a new interview, a North Carolina Republican admitted what we all already knew: That the GOP’s push to eliminate the estate tax is nothing but a scam to fatten the pockets of the richest Americans at the expense of everyone else. The estate tax applies only to a tiny fraction of inheritances — the […]

The House GOP tax scam is horrible in several obvious ways — from slashing taxes for big corporations and millionaires, to punishing people with student debt, to gutting campaign finance laws, to blowing a hole in the federal deficit. But a closer look at the framework reveals several, less apparent ways that the GOP plan […]

Responding to the indictment of top Trump campaign aides, congressional Republicans have begun a new push to interfere in the special counsel investigation into Russian election interference. A new bill, proposed by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and cosponsored by Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Louis Gohmert (R-TX), demands that Robert Mueller “resign from his position.” […]

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz arrived in Washington, D.C., to give public testimony at a hearing on the federal government’s responses to recent natural disasters, including Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. But Republicans on the House Committee on Homeland Security abruptly scrubbed the event, gave no explanation for the […]

Republicans were so busy trying to ram through their nightmarish Obamacare repeal bill in September that they forgot to put a key funding bill on the agenda: the reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which covers some 9 million children. Funding officially expired on Oct. 1. Nearly one month later, Republicans have shown […]

Donald Trump is trying to run away from his responsibilities and his role in authorizing the doomed Niger raid that led to four American soldiers being murdered. As he prioritizes his own political fortunes over American lives, one of the leading voices demanding answers has had her life threatened. The Miami Herald reports that Rep. […]

With Republicans on Capitol Hill suddenly scrambling to re-investigate Hillary Clinton and treat her as she were a scandal-ridden president of the United States, Democratic leaders are stressing how transparently partisan the newly announced inquiries are. “This had to be orchestrated with the approval of the speaker of the House,” noted Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) […]

For a brief period, it looked as though the horrific Las Vegas shooting that killed 58 people and injured 548 others might finally be the moment Congress would act on gun violence. The firearm attachments used by the killer, called “bump stocks,” serve no reasonable civilian purpose, upgrading semi-automatic weapons into fully automatic machine guns. […]

Since Donald Trump took office, the Republican Party has been slowly but steadily hemorrhaging incumbents in Congress. So far this year, seven House Republicans have announced they will retire at the end of their term, not counting those who are preparing to run for higher office. Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee is also not seeking […]

Michigan Republican Rep. Tim Walberg has never been known for his reasoned, levelheaded views. Walberg has claimed that President Barack Obama might be from Kenya, that Saddam Hussein financed 9/11, that “God will take care of” global warming, that Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme,” and that China is secretly drilling for oil off the […]

As Donald Trump continues down a path of destructive, narcissistic, and unstable behavior, GOP politicians have largely stuck by him. But those who are leaving office — like Sen. Bob Corker — have been quicker to speak their mind. Former Republican politicians who are now out of office are even more blunt, like former Rep. […]

The Republican plan to slash money from Medicaid and Medicare and eliminate middle-class tax deductions to give money to corporations and millionaires is increasingly imperiled by public distrust. But Mike Pence’s efforts to sway public opinion are doing little to inspire confidence, particularly considering the people with whom he is choosing to campaign. Tuesday, Pence […]

Convinced that Donald Trump has no idea the “the misery Democrats could unleash on his presidency” if they gain control of the House next year, CNN reports more and more Republicans, including Trump aides, fear impeachment proceedings if the GOP is swept out of office in 2018. And they don’t understand why Trump is fueling […]

Speaker Paul Ryan is threatening to cancel Christmas and conduct a special session of Congress so that he can pass tax breaks for wealthy families like the Trumps. Ryan gave a speech to the conservative Heritage Foundation touting the tax scheme he concocted with Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. “We’re going to keep […]