GOP Reps. Young Kim, Michelle Steel prep for fight to defend seats in highly competitive SoCal districts
ORANGE, Calif. – Republican Reps. Young Kim and Michelle Steele are optimistic. It is a species that is in danger of extinction, but scientifically California RepublicanThe Orange County-based lawmakers are confident voters will elect them to Congress for a third term this fall. First elected in 2020, both districts have been hot targets of campaigning […]
Reps call on postmaster general to implement new heat rule for workers
Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) led a group of more than 70 lawmakers. In a joint letter As the heatwaves continue, he called on U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to protect U.S. Postal Service workers. The letter, released Wednesday, called for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to finalize proposed rules to protect people who […]
Jets giving Olu Fashanu reps at both tackle spots
Morgan Moses knows what it’s like to switch between right and left tackle, so when first-round draft pick Olu Fashanu switched positions from his natural position on the left side during training camp on Monday, Moses told Fashanu to “embrace it.” “That’s the only thing you can do,” Jets right tackle Moses said. “At the […]
Wyoming wildfire destroys GOP rep’s childhood home: ‘Devastating’
A raging wildfire has destroyed the childhood home of Republican Congresswoman Harriet Hageman of Wyoming. Officials say the blaze has burned more than 28,000 acres in eastern Wyoming since last week. The Haystacks Fire, which was contained Monday, reignited the next day and burned areas in the Haystack Mountains and north of Fort Laramie, Goshen […]
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 […]
Martin Heinrich becomes third Dem senator to call on Biden to drop out of race, joins 24 House reps
Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico on Friday became the third Democratic senator to call on President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race, joining 26 others. Heinrich joined his colleagues in calling for the 81-year-old president to “pass the baton” in a statement, but did not immediately suggest whether Vice President Kamala Harris […]
EXCLUSIVE: State Reps Demand Resignation From Congresswoman Who Went After Trump’s Secret Service Protection
Texas state representatives are demanding Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crocket resign over her bill to strip former President Donald Trump of his Secret Service protection following Saturday’s assassination attempt against him. In a letter sent to the congresswoman on Monday, 27 Texas lawmakers and candidates for office called on Crockett to resign because she co-sponsored […]
Vulnerable Dem meets with group that supports ‘halting’ deportation, employs reps with anti-police views
The Democratic senator supported “an end to the expansion of immigrant detention and deportations” in Congress and met with groups that say police are “murdering people of color” and “often without reason.” Sen. Jon Tester (D-Montana) met with representatives from Voices for Progress on May 16, 2024, according to the senator’s public schedule. Voices for […]