Jill Stein Mocked After Fact-Check Over Basic Congressional Numbers
Green Party candidate Jill Stein has been widely mocked after she failed to accurately state the number of voting members of the U.S. House of Representatives during an interview. The Breakfast Club. On Thursday, when her morning radio show co-host Angela Rye asked Stein how many voting members there are in Congress, Stein hesitated, deflected […]
Congressional Gold Medals for 13 service members killed in Kabul
Congress on Tuesday posthumously bestowed its highest honor on 13 U.S. soldiers killed in a bomb attack at Kabul's airport during America's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Lawmakers gathered in the Capitol Rotunda alongside tearful relatives of fallen heroes for the awards ceremony, which came on the heels of a scathing House report on the withdrawal […]
Hotly contested congressional coming down to kitchen table issues
(The Center Square) – Candidates in the nation’s most competitive congressional district are campaigning on a variety of issues, but the only ones they can fully agree on are lower taxes and health care costs. In Michigan's 8th Congressional District, Democrat State Senator Kristen McDonald-Rivett is running against Republican Paul Junge, and incumbent Democratic Rep. […]
Secret surveillance of congressional staff by DOJ in focus after whistleblower advocates notch court win
A federal judge last week ruled in favor of a whistleblower advocacy group that sued the Justice Department seeking disclosure of documents related to the department's secret acquisition of communications about congressional officials who were investigating the department. Empower Oversight Whistleblowers and Research won a partial victory in a lawsuit it filed in May when […]
New York man sentenced to prison for threatening to kill congressional staffers
A New York man was sentenced Tuesday to just over a year in prison for threatening to kill congressional staff and making more than 12,000 harassing phone calls to dozens of lawmakers. Federal prosecutors announced that Ade Salim Lilly, 35, was sentenced to 13 months in prison with 36 months bail in U.S. District Court […]
FACT CHECK: Did Kamala Harris Claim A Congressional Candidate Needed To Be Deported?
Posts Share on social media It purportedly shows an image from a post by Vice President Kamala Harris calling for the deportation of Republican congressional candidates. U.S. prosecutors have issued an amended indictment that includes language that takes into account former President Donald Trump's immunity from prosecution for meddling in the 2020 election. BBC News […]
GOPer John Lee seeks to flip key volatile Nevada Congressional seat
MESQUITE, Nev. — A veteran politician who could be watching the sun set over the mesas from the comfort of his sprawling Sun City retirement community here is campaigning to get the votes he hopes will flip a swing key district back to Republican. John Lee, 69, is a former state legislator and former mayor […]
FBI Released Crooks’ Body for Cremation, Injured Congressional Investigation, Cleaned Evidence from Crime Scene
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-Louisiana) has called for an examination of the body of would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks as part of the House investigation into the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, only to find that the shooter’s body was “gone” and that “the FBI wiped biological evidence from the crime scene.” Rep. Higgins […]
Walz’ ‘stolen valor’ obvious, says congressional candidate
(The Center Square) – The “cover-up” of defamatory charges against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is an insult to military members who know better than anyone that there are “cowards” among their ranks. “I’m a big fan of the Army,” Pat Harrigan, an Army Green Beret running for North Carolina’s 10th Congressional District seat in Washington, […]
Incumbent GOP Rep. Pete Stauber wins Minnesota Congressional District 8 primary
Pete Stauber, a former police officer and incumbent Republican member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, defeated a Republican challenger on Tuesday night, advancing to November’s general election and set to face off against the winner of Tuesday night’s Minnesota 8th District Democratic Primary. Stauber, who has served in the House since January 2019, is […]