December 20, 2015 Calif. GOP Rep. McKeon to retire from Congress after 11 terms California Republican Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, is retiring from Congress, ӣƵ confirmed Wednesday.
December 20, 2015 Letter questions whether Boehner was briefed on Benghazi ops A letter from three relatives of the Benghazi attack victims is renewing questions over whether House Speaker John Boehner was briefed on covert operations in Libya and whether a proposed “Select Committee” might reveal politically damaging details.
December 20, 2015 Speaker invites Obama for State of the Union Speaker John Boehner has invited President Barack Obama to deliver the State of the Union speech on Tuesday, Jan. 20.
December 20, 2015 House spending bill would bar implementation of DC legal pot measure According to the board of elections, nearly 65 percent of D.C. voters voted in favor of the measure, which made it legal to possess up to two ounces of pot and up to three mature marijuana plants for personal use.
December 20, 2015 GOP lawmakers, Benghazi survivors fume over House report A recent report by a GOP-led committee that was seen as going easy on the Obama administration's Benghazi response continues to draw stinging complaints from a number of Republicans on the panel, as well as survivors of the attack.
December 20, 2015 Boehner moves to push off immigration fight to 2015 House Speaker John Boehner announced plans Tuesday to effectively push off a looming battle over President Obama's immigration policies until next year, while potentially averting a partial government shutdown later this month.
December 20, 2015 Poisoning the well? Obama’s immigration vow complicates AG nomination, budget bill President Obama's vow to press ahead with executive action on immigration may already be poisoning the well, as House Speaker John Boehner warned last week.
December 20, 2015 Boehner warns Obama will ‘burn himself’ with exec action on immigration House Speaker John Boehner issued a stern warning to President Obama not to use executive action to bypass Congress on immigration, telling the president on Thursday "he's going to burn himself" and "poison the well" if he goes down that path.
December 20, 2015 Issa: Document dump shows Holder ‘at the heart’ of Fast and Furious debate House oversight committee Chairman Darrell Issa told ӣƵ on Thursday that a massive trove of emails handed to his office on the eve of the elections indicates Attorney General Eric Holder was “at the heart” of deliberations over the Operation Fast and Furious scandal.
December 20, 2015 Pelosi calls for end to rioting in Ferguson House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called for an end to the rioting in Ferguson, Mo., that began after a grand jury decided not to indict a police officer in the killing of a black teenager.