The White House on Monday attacked House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) for focusing on an impeachment inquiry into President Biden instead of on averting a government shutdown. The House Oversight Committee will hold its first hearing on the impeachment inquiry into Biden on Thursday and Comer said...
Democrats are seizing on a GOP-backed push for steeper cuts in government funding to argue Republicans are putting Americans in danger with the threat of a shutdown that could cut off various federal services by next week. Administration officials, the White House and members of Congress have laid out a litany of problems that will...
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) is fighting for his political life amid rising calls to resign from Democratic colleagues in the wake of a federal indictment on bribery charges. Menendez on Monday said he's not going anywhere during a defiant appearance before the press, insisting he'd be exonerated. But by 5 p.m., a second Senate Democratic...
Senior U.S. officials arrived in Armenia on Monday after neighboring Azerbaijan launched a full-scale military assault last week in the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region and forced the evacuation of thousands of ethnic Armenians. Samantha Power, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is in Armenia along with State Department acting assistant secretary for...
Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Americans attributing extreme weather to climate change jumped 10 points this summer Nearly 9 in 10 Americans say they have experienced extreme weather, and the percentage of people attributing it to climate change has increased to...
A group of Haitian-American elected officials is calling on President Biden to withdraw support for a Kenya-led peacekeeping mission in Haiti, which they say will bolster acting President Ariel Henry's grip on power. The National Haitian-American Elected Officials Network (NHAEON) and Family Action Network Movement (FANM) on Friday wrote Biden and Secretary of State Antony...
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) on Monday became the second Senate Democrat to call on Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) to resign after he was indicted on federal bribery charges late last week. “Senator Menendez has broken the public trust and should resign from the U.S. Senate," Brown said in a statement. Menendez, along with his wife, Nadine,...
President Biden on Monday bashed House Republicans for heading towards a government shutdown, saying that they shouldn’t be elected if they can’t do their job to fund the government. “Funding the government is one of the most basic, fundamental responsibilities of the Congress and if Republicans in the House don’t start doing their job, we...