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...
by jpitney | Oct 6, 2024 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress, House of Representatives
Don Wolfensberger at The HIll: The comic strip character, Pogo, identified the problem: “We have met the enemy and they are us.” Anna, the teacher in “The King and I,” identified the solution in the song, “Getting to Know You.” The basic truth that resonates in both...
by jpitney | Oct 3, 2024 | Congress, House of Representatives
Haley Byrd WIlt at NOTUS: In interviews with more than a dozen House Republicans ahead of the anniversary of McCarthy’s removal, lawmakers said they are still emotionally recovering. They blamed those frenetic, frustrating weeks for thwarting GOP priorities and...
