May 27, 2020 House Dems adjourn without FISA vote after Trump announces veto threat The House of Representatives adjourned late Wednesday without voting on whether to reauthorize advanced surveillance tools used by law enforcement -- a measure that had wide bipartisan support back in March, but which has drawn sudden GOP opposition amid news of apparent FBI misconduct.
May 27, 2020 House of Representatives conducts first proxy vote in its 231-year history The U.S. House of Representatives made history Wednesday by conducting its first proxy vote since Congress first met in 1789 -- as Republicans raised alarms over the temporary voting system implemented because of coronavirus.
May 27, 2020 House Republicans say votes taken in House under proxy plan 'cannot become law,' would be unconstitutional House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Minority Whip Steve Scalese, R-La., and Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., lambasted the proxy voting plan during a press conference, along with a handful of other members. The House Republicans announced a lawsuit against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Tuesday over the proxy voting system's constitutionality.
May 27, 2020 Kevin McCarthy: Pelosi is endangering Constitution to ensure she has more power Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is endangering the Constitution to ensure that she has more power by maintaining a system of proxy voting in Congress put in place during the coronavirus pandemic, House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., accused Wednesday.
May 27, 2020 Kellyanne Conway slams Twitter's Trump fact-checks: They're done by 'people who attack him all day long' In a sharp rebuke of Twitter's first-ever move to fact-check a tweet by President Trump, White House adviser to the president Kellyanne Conway insisted Wednesday that Democrats within the mainstream media cannot be relied upon.
May 26, 2020 House Republicans sue Pelosi in bid to stop proxy voting amid coronavirus concerns House Republicans filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to block a system of proxy voting put in place during the coronavirus pandemic on the grounds that it is unconstitutional.
May 19, 2020 Trump defends taking hydroxychloroquine, hits back at Pelosi as 'sick' President Trump on Tuesday defended his use of hydroxychloroquine in an attempt potentially to ward off the coronavirus, saying the unproven COVID-19 drug "gives you an additional level of safety."
May 19, 2020 Pelosi swears in two new GOP members of Congress Two new GOP congressmen were sworn into office Tuesday after winning two special elections last week that Republican leaders tout as a sign of GOP momentum heading into the fall general election.
May 18, 2020 Kevin McCarthy: 'Really sickening' that Dems are using COVID-19 to enforce socialism House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said on “Fox & Friends” on Monday that “it’s really sickening that the Democrats are using this opportunity [the coronavirus pandemic] to enforce their socialism.”
May 14, 2020 GOP Rep. Steve King claims he’s poised to have committee assignments restored Ostracized Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, claims he's poised to have his House of Representatives committee assignments restored after they were stripped from him more than a year ago for making comments that were widely panned as racist.