Politics Mar 05 House Republican leaders urge Tony Gonzales to end reelection bid after admitting to affair with aide GOP leaders notably did not call for Gonzales to resign as they struggle to maintain their slim majority in the House, which they hold by only a handful of seats.
Politics Mar 05 WATCH: House rejects Iran war powers resolution in narrow vote, following Senate's footsteps The House narrowly rejected a war powers resolution Thursday to halt President Donald Trump's attacks on Iran, an early sign of unease in Congress over the rapidly widening conflict that is reordering U.S. priorities at home and abroad.
Politics Mar 04 WATCH: Senate GOP votes down war powers resolution after U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran Senate Republicans voted down an effort Wednesday to halt President Donald Trump’s war against Iran, demonstrating early support for a conflict that has rapidly spread across the Middle East with no clear U.S. exit strategy.
Politics Mar 02 WATCH: Limiting Trump's authority with war powers act is 'dangerous,' Johnson says The U.S. Congress is confronting a war powers debate over President Donald Trump's authority to bomb Iran under largely unusual circumstances — without a formal declaration or an address to the nation, the commander in chief has already launched the country into a quickly spiraling…
Nation Feb 28 Members of Congress demand swift vote on war powers resolution after Trump orders Iran strike without congressional approval Both the House and Senate, where the president's Republican Party has a slim majority, had already drafted such resolutions long before the strikes Saturday.
Politics Feb 23 Trump's big speech will be delivered to a changed nation and a Congress he has sidelined One year back in office, Trump has emerged as a president defying conventional expectations. He has executed a head-spinning agenda, upending priorities at home, shattering alliances abroad and challenging the nation's foundational system of checks and balances.
Politics Feb 12 House GOP pushes strict proof-of-citizenship requirement for voters ahead of midterm elections The bill passed Wednesday is a Trump administration priority aimed at scrutinizing ballot access. But it faces blowback in the Senate.
Politics Feb 11 WATCH: House rebukes Trump's tariffs on Canada, passes SAVE Act The tally, 219-211, was among the first times the House, controlled by Republicans, has confronted the president over a signature policy, and drew instant recrimination from President Donald Trump himself.
Politics Feb 10 WATCH: Heads of ICE, immigration agencies testify following protester deaths Todd Lyons, the acting ICE director, Rodney Scott, who heads U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and Joseph Edlow, who is the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, spoke in front of the House Committee on Homeland Security in a…
Politics Feb 09 WATCH: House gavels in as deadline for Homeland Security funding nears Whether to ban the masks — or allow the masking to continue — has emerged as a central question in the debate in Congress over funding Homeland Security ahead of Friday’s midnight deadline, when it faces a partial agency shutdown.