Category: congress

McConnell Released From Inpatient Therapy Weeks After Concussion

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been released home after completing inpatient physical therapy at a rehabilitation facility, following a concussion he suffered earlier this month. The 81-year-old senator had a fall at a private dinner for the Senate Leadership Fund, a Republican super PAC, on March 8 at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington. After the fall, McConnell was admitted to…


House Republicans Insist on Information From Bragg’s Office on Trump Indictment

House Republicans sent another letter to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Saturday, requesting the latter to provide more information about the potential indictment against former president Donald Trump. “We reiterate the request in our March 20 letter and ask that you comply in full as soon as possible but no later than March 31,…


House Financial Services Chair Warns Against Quick Regulatory Fixes For Banking Crisis

The House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), warned against quick regulatory fixes for the banking crisis. The congressman from North Carolina told the American Bankers Association Washington Summit on March 22, we “cannot legislate confidence” when it comes to the banking sector. He stated that it was too early to see if any new…


Select Committee on the CCP Hears Abuse of Uyghurs in China’s ‘Re-Education’ Camps

Two prison camp survivors recounted how Uyghur women were subjected to sterilization, sexual abuse, electric shocks, and brainwashing in China’s “re-education” camps during a hearing held by House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on March 23. “Genocide is occurring, this time at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party,” said Rep. Mike…


House China Committee Hears Abuse of Uyghurs in CCP’s ‘Re-Education’ Camps

Two prison camp survivors recounted how Uyghur women were subjected to sterilization, sexual abuse, electric shocks, and brainwashing in China’s “re-education” camps during a hearing held by House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on March 23. “Genocide is occurring, this time at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party,” said Rep. Mike…


Crisis as Bad as 2008: Democrats Spotlight Consequences of a US Default

Democrats from the Joint Economic Committee presented a report about the possible consequences of Republicans not raising the debt ceiling. The group was led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who warned during a March 23 press conference that the Republican Party’s stance on the debt limit…


Poll Challengers Defended by Witnesses in House Election Hearing

Election integrity activist Lynn Taylor came before Congress on March 23 “to set the record straight.” Taylor, the president of the Virginia Institute of Public Policy, ripped into the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), nonprofit organizations, and the media for “misleading the American people for the past two years” by portraying election poll watchers as a “problem.”…


Rep. Greene and Bipartisan Lawmakers Visit DC Jail That Holds January 6 Defendants

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and other bipartisan lawmakers visit the jail where the Jan. 6 defendants are held in Washington at 4:00 p.m. ET on March 24. …


Lawmaker Revives Push to Make English Official US Language

Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) revived a decades-old push to establish English as the official language of the United States with the introduction on March 24 of the English Language Unity Act of 2023. If passed, the bill (pdf) would “declare English as the official language of the United States,” require all functions and proceedings of…


OMB Director Young Defends Biden’s Budget Plan at House Budget Committee Hearing

While talks between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) about spending cuts as a condition for increasing the debt ceiling remain at a stalemate, House Republicans and Democrats are divided in their viewpoints about Biden’s fiscal year 2024 federal budget proposal. On March 23, Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young…