Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), who rose to No. 2 Democrat in the House and helped spearhead key legislation around protections for people with disabilities and election administration reform, is retiring from Congress after serving 45 years in the lower chamber. “I did not want to be one of those members who clearly stayed, outstayed his…
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Republicans are excitedly forecasting the fall of the communist regime in Cuba following President Trump’s shocking operation capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Trump’s oil embargo on Venezuela is viewed as the central pressure point on Cuba and its governing communist party, which is already facing one of its worst economic crises since coming to power…
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The House is poised to pass legislation Thursday extending contentious ObamaCare tax credits for three years, marking a hard-fought victory for Democrats and fueling hope among centrist Republicans that it will lead to a bipartisan compromise to revive the subsidies. The proposal has no chance of moving through the Senate as-is. The same three-year extension…
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The House will attempt to override President Trump’s vetoes of two GOP-backed bills Thursday, a move that could showcase GOP division. Veto override votes are standard procedure, and a matter of high privilege in the House that forces the vote. A White House official said that the votes do not indicate any disunity with the…
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Nine House Republicans voted on Wednesday to compel the lower chamber to vote on a Democratic bill to revive ObamaCare subsidies after they expired at the start of the new year. Republican Reps. Mike Lawler (N.Y.), Nicolas LaLota (N.Y.) Robert Bresnahan (Penn.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Penn.), Ryan Mackenzie (Penn.), María Elvira Salazar (Fla.), Max Miller (Ohio),…
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