by James Fite | Apr 19, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
Despite continued threats to his position, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) assured his colleagues Thursday, April 19, that he won’t seek to implement a minimum threshold on a vote to oust him. The speaker had reportedly been flirting with the idea of ending the...
by James Fite | Apr 7, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
Congress will be back from vacation this coming week: Monday for the Senate and Tuesday for the House. Shortly thereafter, the impeachment of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will be presented to the upper chamber for consideration – but don’t expect much in the way...
by Mark Angelides | Jan 31, 2024 | Articles, Illegal Immigration, Politics
The House Homeland Security Committee is on track to send the strongest possible message to President Joe Biden over his attitude and commitment to border security. Voting along party lines, the Republican-led group agreed to finalize two articles of impeachment...
by James Fite | Jan 27, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
The ghost of a deal in the Senate to address both border security and Ukraine aid in the same bill may have been exorcised thanks to House Republican leadership. The supposed arrangement has no formal legislative text yet, and the exact details have not been made...
by James Fite | Jan 10, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
When Republicans took the US House of Representatives in 2023, they had big plans – as majorities often do. But session one showed the 118th to be, so far, the least productive Congress in 87 years, if not longer. Will 2024 be the big year the House GOP hopes for – or...