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Senate GOP blocks bipartisan bill to expand child tax credit

Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a bipartisan bill to expand tax credits for parents as Republicans and Democrats clashed over comments by Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, the Republican vice presidential nominee. Senators voted 48-44 to pass a bill co-authored by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Jason Smith (R-Missouri) that would increase the Child […]

Lawmakers on Trump assassination task force share rare bipartisan ‘commitment’; omitted reps question absence

After House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-New York, nominated candidates to serve on the Trump Assassination Attempt Task Force, committee members expressed a bipartisan desire to determine how the historic tragedy happened in the first place. Rep. Mike Kelly, a Pennsylvania Republican whose district includes the Butler Farm Show […]

Members of bipartisan task force to probe Trump assassination attempt unveiled

Congressional leaders on Monday announced the members of a newly created bipartisan task force investigating the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump earlier this month. The 13-member committee will be chaired by Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pennsylvania) and led by Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colorado), according to a statement from House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and […]

Bipartisan task force members named in Trump assassination attempt probe

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) on Monday announced the leaders who have been appointed to a bipartisan commission investigating the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump earlier this month. “We have the utmost confidence that this bipartisan, stalwart, extremely competent and capable group of lawmakers will […]

House Passes Bipartisan Resolution Establishing Trump Assassination Attempt Task Force

The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a resolution to establish a bipartisan select committee to investigate the July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. HR 1367: Taking the lead The select committee bill, introduced by House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, passed the House unanimously. The announcement comes […]

House forms bipartisan task force to probe Trump assassination attempt

House leaders launched a bipartisan special committee to investigate the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump, a day after the director of the Secret Service infuriated lawmakers by refusing to answer key questions about the case. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) announced the group on Tuesday to […]