Nancy Pelosi appoints Liz Cheney to Capitol riot committee
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has threatened to punish any Republican who accepted Pelosi’s appointment to the investigative panel.
By Emily Singer - July 01, 2021House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has threatened to punish any Republican who accepted Pelosi’s appointment to the investigative panel.
By Emily Singer - July 01, 2021Just two Republicans, Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, voted in favor of the resolution on creating the select committee.
By Emily Singer - July 01, 2021Rep. Michelle Fischbach (R-MN) claimed the select committee to investigate the Capitol insurrection would be more partisan than the Benghazi select committee.
By Emily Singer - June 30, 2021House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she has veto power over who Republicans appoint to the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot.
By Emily Singer - June 30, 2021House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is seeking to appoint a bipartisan select committee to investigate the Capitol insurrection.
By Josh Israel - June 29, 2021House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a select committee to investigate the insurrection, after Republicans blocked a bipartisan commission.
By Emily Singer - June 29, 2021The new committee comes after Republican senators blocked legislation that would have set up a bipartisan commission to investigate the attack.
By Associated Press - June 24, 2021The Senate voted final congressional approval of the bill last week.
By Associated Press - June 17, 2021Democrats in Congress are reportedly willing to agree to a smaller version of Biden’s American Jobs Plan now if they can pass their other spending priorities through reconciliation soon after.
By Josh Israel - June 14, 2021Former White House counsel Don McGahn is the latest person to find out the Trump administration subpoenaed his communications record in a politically motivated leak probe.
By Emily Singer - June 14, 2021‘I believe the Inspector General should investigate this and other cases that suggest the weaponization of law enforcement by a corrupt president,’ said Rep. Adam Schiff.
By Associated Press - June 11, 2021House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s statement comes as opposition from a key Senate Democrat puts the bill’s future in doubt.
By Emily Singer - June 08, 2021In video from 2020, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) says statues of Hitler and Satan would have educational value and therefore shouldn’t be taken down.
By Oliver Willis - May 25, 2021As the mask mandate is lifted for those who are vaccinated, CNN reports that a large chunk of Republicans in Congress have yet to receive their shots.
By Emily Singer - May 14, 2021The strategy has failed in two consecutive cycles — but it’s not stopping Republicans from running the playbook again.
By Emily Singer - April 26, 2021The story is contained in a new book about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
By Emily Singer - April 15, 2021Lawmakers are still reckoning with possible future threats as the Capitol Police deals with the fallout from the violent ordeal.
By Associated Press - April 13, 2021A dozen House Republicans voted against awarding congressional gold medals to law enforcement officers who responded to the Jan. 6 insurrection.
By Emily Singer - March 18, 2021Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) wants to remove any mention of insurrectionists killing Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick from a resolution meant to honor Capitol police.
By Emily Singer - March 17, 2021House Democrats are proposing basic background checks for gun purchases — which even most Republican voters support.
By Josh Israel - March 08, 2021The bill would ban chokeholds and qualified immunity for law enforcement and create national standards for policing.
By Associated Press - March 04, 2021Mitch McConnell has just a 19% approval rating after his vote to acquit Donald Trump on a technicality of his own making.
By Emily Singer - February 16, 2021Republicans are repeating the false claim that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is responsible for security at the U.S. Capitol.
By Emily Singer - February 15, 2021House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would introduce legislation to award Goodman and his fellow Capitol Police officers who responded to the Jan. 6 riots.
By Amy Lieu - February 12, 2021The fencing was placed around the Capitol at the recommendation of the acting Capitol Police chief after Trump supporters stormed the building.
By Donna Provencher - February 05, 2021Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel is giving no indication the GOP will punish Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for her violent and false rhetoric.
By Emily Singer - February 01, 2021Marjorie Taylor Greene reportedly ‘liked’ posts as recently as two years ago that, among other things, called for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to be shot.
By Amy Lieu - January 26, 2021Five people died as a result of the Capitol insurrection, which was spurred on by Trump himself.
By Oliver Willis - January 21, 2021House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy just began his eighth term.
By Josh Israel - January 19, 2021‘He must go.’
By Amy Lieu - January 13, 2021