Senate report on insurrection details brutal attacks on law enforcement from pro-Trump mob
It was not a ‘normal tourist visit,’ as one GOP lawmaker said.
By Emily Singer - June 08, 2021It was not a ‘normal tourist visit,’ as one GOP lawmaker said.
By Emily Singer - June 08, 2021‘It’s inconceivable that they don’t even want to find out how to prevent this in the future,’ Officer Aquilino Gonell said.
By Emily Singer - June 04, 2021The Senate minority leader previously called it an ‘exotic notion’ to consider the year slavery began in America as a key historical moment.
By Oliver Willis - June 02, 2021The bipartisan proposal was almost exactly what 31 House Republicans demanded in January.
By Josh Israel - May 28, 2021Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is one of just a handful of Republicans voting in favor of an independent review of the Capitol insurrection.
By Emily Singer - May 28, 2021House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy once opposed hate crimes laws of any kind.
By Josh Israel - May 26, 2021Republican senators say the bipartisan House bill is duplicative, partisan, and premature.
By Josh Israel - May 26, 2021He called the bipartisan commission to probe the violent Jan 6. attack a ‘purely political’ exercise to hurt Republicans in the midterms.
By Emily Singer - May 25, 2021Senate Republicans are coming up with nonsensical excuses for why they oppose the bipartisan commission.
By Emily Singer - May 21, 2021Sen. Mitch McConnell and Rep. Kevin McCarthy have both said they oppose a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump.
By Oliver Willis - May 19, 2021Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell came out against a bipartisan commission to probe the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
By Emily Singer - May 19, 2021Days after saying he would not negotiate, the Senate minority leader is already waffling.
By Josh Israel - May 10, 2021No election was stolen from Donald Trump.
By Associated Press - May 07, 2021So much for the bipartisanship Republicans demanded.
By Emily Singer - May 05, 2021And he wants the plan to be much smaller than what the GOP first suggested.
By Josh Israel - May 03, 2021Americans, meanwhile, want Republicans to work with President Joe Biden to accomplish his agenda.
By Amy Lieu - April 28, 2021Sen. Mitch McConnell accused President Joe Biden of running as a moderate but not governing as one.
By Josh Israel - April 28, 2021They also really like his forthcoming $1.8 trillion American Families Plan.
By Josh Israel - April 27, 2021Donald Trump, at least for now, is giving them plenty of leeway, convinced they pose little threat to his own ambitions.
By Associated Press - April 19, 2021He hopes that saying nice things about Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema will convince them to let him block their agenda.
By Josh Israel - April 15, 2021The story is contained in a new book about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
By Emily Singer - April 15, 2021The CEOS of some of the country’s biggest corporations publicly opposed Republicans’ continuing campaign against voting rights.
By Emily Singer - April 14, 2021GOP Sens. Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and Mike Lee will introduce legislation on Tuesday to pull Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption.
By Emily Singer - April 13, 2021The heads of the biggest companies in Michigan have entered the debate around voting rights.
By Emily Singer - April 13, 2021The Senate minority leader is upset President Joe Biden doesn’t want to increase defense spending more.
By Josh Israel - April 09, 2021GOP lawmakers are threatening corporations that oppose Republican voter suppression tactics.
By Emily Singer - April 06, 2021Sen. Mitch McConnell has been threatening companies that speak out against GOP voter suppression efforts.
By Emily Singer - April 06, 2021A new poll shows more Major League Baseball fans support the league’s protest of Georgia’s new voter suppression law than oppose it.
By Emily Singer - April 06, 2021Major companies are speaking out against the nationwide Republican effort to suppress the vote. But they’ve given tens of millions to Republicans who pushed for voting restrictions.
By Associated Press - April 05, 2021They’re conveniently forgetting that the definition of infrastructure includes energy, water, housing, transportation, and communications systems, too.
By Donna Provencher - April 01, 2021