by jpitney | Jan 5, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives
Daniella Diaz, Meredith Lee Hill and Jordain Carney at Politico: Speaker Mike Johnson told Republicans on Saturday that President-elect Donald Trump wants one reconciliation package, instead of the planned two that Republican leadership has been pushing, three people...
by jpitney | Jan 4, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives
Aidan Quigley at Roll Call: A last-minute insertion into House Republicans’ rules package for the 119th Congress substantially raises the bar for voting on legislation under suspension of the rules late in the week or over the weekend, in a concession to conservatives...
by jpitney | Jan 2, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives
Jordain Carney and Meredith Lee Hill at Politico: Republicans will make it harder to remove the speaker in the 119th Congress under a rules package unveiled Wednesday. The proposed rules package would require nine GOP members to back making a motion to vacate to...
by jpitney | Dec 22, 2024 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress, House of Representatives
Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) was one of the winners of the 2024 Newsweek-Stubblefield Institute Civility Awards. He recently spoke to Larry Platt of the Philadelphia Citizen It’s funny in politics, right? [Laughs] You are used to getting called too young and then...
by jpitney | Dec 12, 2024 | Civility, Congress, House of Representatives, Public Service
Stephen Gruber-Miller, Des Moines Register: Former U.S. Rep. James Leach, who represented Iowa in Congress for 30 years as a Republican before chairing the National Endowment for the Humanities and becoming a University of Iowa professor, died Wednesday. He was 82....
by jpitney | Dec 11, 2024 | Congress, House of Representatives
Abby Livingston at Puck: Meanwhile, I’m hearing that female House Republicans are livid after the House G.O.P. steering committee voted on its preferences to chair the big, exclusive committees. There’s not a woman to be found among the gavel-winners. A particular...
