House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday confronted critics in his Republican Party who say the stopgap funding bill to avoid a government shutdown Friday has become a bloated spending package.

Democrats have always been unwilling to learn anything about guns or even most gun laws before spouting off their gun control talking points. Still, they have somehow become even lazier on this issue over the past few years. Two people were killed and several more injured at a shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in […]

TRUMP IS UNDER ATTACK LESS. HIS POPULARITY IS RISING. WHAT WILL THE RESISTANCE DO? Dec. 6 was a historic day. It was the first time since July 2015, since Donald Trump entered presidential politics, that more people have said they have a favorable impression of Trump than an unfavorable one. All that time, from Trump’s first […]

President George W. Bush’s administration in late 2001 sued Alamosa County in the San Luis Valley in south central Colorado, demanding the county racially gerrymander commissioner districts to guarantee the election of a Hispanic commissioner. The Bush Department of Justice sued because, as a complaining witness testified, “To me, representative government means having somebody that looks like you, […]

The U.S. Department of Transportation is going to mandate rear seat belt reminder systems to be implemented by late 2027 in all new cars, as part of ongoing efforts to reduce traffic accident deaths and injuries. In a final rule released Monday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHSTA) finalized its rule that would require...

Congressional leadership is set to hold a Menorah-lighting ceremony Tuesday afternoon. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) are all set to attend the event, commemorating the eight-day festival of Hanukkah. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), who has said he will serve out his term...

A bipartisan working group on Tuesday released two drafts aimed at providing more families with more paid family leave. “The American people have waited too long for us to solve a major issue that vexes nearly every family in the nation, and in dropping our discussion bills today, we’re putting Congress on notice that we...

The outgoing chair of the Senate Banking Committee is throwing in the towel on trying to confirm two key Biden administration appointees with just days before the upper chamber is set to leave for the year. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), who lost his reelection bid last month, set up Banking panel votes for Caroline Crenshaw,...

“Pod Save America” host Jon Favreau said in a Tuesday episode of the podcast that the President Biden “seems to be disappearing from the public stage.” “So, the purpose of [President-elect] Trump’s appearance at Mar-a-Lago Monday morning was to announce a $100 billion investment from SoftBank, the hugely influential Japanese bank in American [artificial intelligence...

President Biden in a new interview published Tuesday said there should be a ban on members of Congress trading stocks, taking a position on an issue that has entered the spotlight in recent years. “I don't know how you look your constituents in the eye and know because the job they gave you, it gave...