The House clerk read resignation letters from Reps. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) Tuesday afternoon that will officially end the lawmakers’ tenures in the House. The duel resignations come as the two men faced sexual misconduct allegations and efforts from colleagues to have them expelled. Swalwell’s resignation was effective at 2 p.m.; Gonzales’
The trial of the Democratic member of Congress is scheduled to begin on April 20.
Three Republican committee chairs are seeking additional documents from the platform as part of their probe into whether they accepted foreign donations.
Another woman came forward on Tuesday to accuse former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) of sexual misconduct violations. Swalwell resigned from Congress and dropped out of California’s gubernatorial race after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct at the end of last week. The now-former California lawmaker has denied allegations of sexual assault, but he acknowledged…
Several states undertook mid-decade redistricting efforts to try to alter the makeup of their congressional delegations this year, after President Trump began last summer to press Republican-led states to increase the number of GOP-friendly districts to help his party hold the House in next year’s midterm elections. Indiana became the first of these to reject
The Trump administration released a memo detailing plans for a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030 to advance U.S. space exploration and defense.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said that a measure to extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s (FISA) warrantless spy powers is dead unless the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act is attached to it. “I think FISA dies unless SAVE America is attached. Period,” Luna told The Hill in an interview on Monday. The…