by Mark Angelides | Feb 7, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
In a last-minute twist of fate, the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas went from doomed-to-fail to back-on-the-table. After hours of debate in the House of Representatives yesterday evening (Feb. 6), a floor vote looked set to end in a tie –...
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 Liberty Nation Authors | Oct 25, 2023 | Articles, Politics
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) has won the contest to be Speaker of the House with 220 votes against 209 today, October 25. He is the fourth nominee that the party has put forward since Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was ousted three weeks ago, each contender fell before racking up...
by Graham J Noble | Oct 20, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Politics
On Oct. 19, having failed to secure his election to the office of House speaker after two rounds of voting, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) opted to push a Plan C gambit. The Judiciary Committee chair reluctantly decided to back an effort to provide Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick...
by Mark Angelides | Oct 4, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
The word “unprecedented” is oft overused – and mistakenly so – in political journalism; as Ecclesiastes reminds us, “there is no new thing under the sun.” However, in the case of Tuesday’s (Oct. 3) successful vote to remove Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA),...