An investigation from House Judiciary Democrats concluded the Justice Department has approved more than a million dollars in payments to fired FBI agents, and accuses the Trump administration of “improperly shower[ing] government cash” on employees who were dismissed after alarming conduct. “You have now proceeded behind closed doors to order the Federal Bureau of Investigation…
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said she would oppose advancing a long-stalled Senate-passed housing bill if it came to the floor, despite President Trump’s push for the House to pass the measure. Luna, in an interview with The Hill on Tuesday, cited her frustration with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) for not doing more…
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) is introducing a bill on Tuesday that proposes allowing the death penalty for people convicted of distributing fentanyl that results in fatalities, Fox News reported. The bill, the Deal Death, Face Death Act, proposes amending the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 to say that convicted fentanyl dealers “shall be sentenced, if…
The office of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) went after Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) on Tuesday after the Virginia Republican concurred when a conservative radio host urged Jeffries to get his “cotton-picking hands off of Virginia.” Christie Stephenson, a spokesperson for Jeffries, who is the first Black lawmaker to lead either party in Congress,…
The top Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday seemed dubious of plans to fund the Pentagon’s $1.5 billion budget request as Congress waits to receive a supplemental request for tens of billions of dollars to fund the war in Iran. Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), the chair of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee, pressed…
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) on Monday asked former JPMorgan Chase executive Jes Staley to sit for an interview with the panel as part of its probe into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Comer wrote in a letter to Staley, “Due to public reporting, documents released by the Department…
President Trump on Monday urged the House to pass a sweeping housing affordability bill that has stalled in the lower chamber amid divisions over certain provisions, including a ban on large institutional investors buying single-family homes. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, aimed at lowering housing costs, overwhelmingly passed the Senate in an 89-10…