by jpitney | Dec 12, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives
Don Wolfensberger: A bipartisan group of roughly three dozen House members, led by Reps. Don Beyer (D-Va.) and Don Bacon (R-Neb.), have introduced a resolution to change House rules and require that a censure must be approved by 60 percent of members voting, not just...
by jpitney | Dec 5, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives
Don Wolfensberger: When the House returned to work on Nov. 17 after a 43-day government shutdown and a 54-day recess ordered by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), it was a bitter homecoming. The usual backslapping and camaraderie were missing, replaced by a startlingly...
by jpitney | Nov 29, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives
Speaker Johnson has problems with discharge petitions. Jennifer Scholtes, Nicholas Wu and Meredith Lee Hill at Politico: On the Louisiana Republican’s watch, the “discharge petition” has caught fire. Rank-and-file lawmakers have managed five times since he won his...
by jpitney | Nov 26, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives
Megan Mineiro at NYT: Even by the standards of the raucous House of Representatives, the past week was an exceptionally caustic one, with lawmakers from both parties lobbing or threatening no fewer than a half-dozen censures and official scoldings at one another. The...
by jpitney | Nov 6, 2025 | Congress, Dreier, House of Representatives
John Gizzi at Newsmax: So what would have happened had Tower been confirmed or Bush found another nominee to replace him? “That’s a really good question,” former Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif., said. “Dick told me that he made a conscious...
by jpitney | Nov 5, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives, Journalism, Journalists
Bloomberg’s Steve Dennis: Capitol news desert: ~Half the states have nobody in the press corps watching their state delegations and asking tough questions in the hallway. It would take ~$10M/year to hire 50 top reporters, one for each state, plus editors, etc.,...
