DeLauro introduces bill to fund every agency under DHS except ICE, CBP

House Appropriations Committee ranking member Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) introduced a bill on Wednesday that would fund every agency under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) except Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Office of the Secretary.  The move comes as the stopgap measure to fund DHS at existing…

Johnson says 6 Democrats should be indicted after grand jury rebuke

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said the six Democrats who participated in a video urging service members to disobey illegal orders last fall “should be indicted,” even as a grand jury on Tuesday refused to do so. “I think that anytime you’re obstructing law enforcement and getting in the way of these sensitive operations, it’s…

House tees up final vote on GOP elections bill

The House on Wednesday advanced a Republican-backed voting requirements bill and three other measures, rebounding from a mini-GOP revolt that had derailed the passage of a procedural rule a day earlier. The lower chamber voted 216-215 to pass the rule, which tees up debate and votes on final passage for all four measures.  It was…

Tim Scott clashes with Chuck Grassley, Dick Durbin over Nazi-linked bank probe

The leaders of two Republican-led committees are quietly locked in a behind-the-scenes turf battle. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who helms the Senate Banking Committee, sent a letter this week to Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the chair and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary panel, saying he was “surprised” to learn that