House Republicans celebrated a return to legislating Wednesday after electing Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana to serve as speaker and ending weeks of bitter intra-party fighting over leadership that paralyzed the chamber.
U.S. Capitol Police charged Rep. Jamaal Bowman for pulling a fire alarm in a House office building on Sept. 30 and have referred the matter to D.C. prosecutors.
Mortgage applications have crashed to a level not seen in 30 years, according to an unsettling new report released Wednesday by the House Budget Committee and shared with Inside the Beltway.
Former President Donald Trump’s tax reform cut rates for everybody and reduced one particular tax break for the rich: the deduction for state and local taxes (abbreviated as SALT). Democrats and some suburban Republicans want to lift the $10,000 cap on the SALT deduction.
There’s a decent chance your doctor’s practice was bought up by a hospital in the last decade or so. Such consolidation has run rampant for years, and a new study looks at the impacts. The bottom line: Hospital consolidation results in higher hospital profits, higher costs to consumers, and maybe worse long-term outcomes for patients.
After a little more than three weeks, House Republicans have finally elected a speaker. He’s Mike Johnson, first elected to the House in 2016 from a district in northwest Louisiana. He’s almost unknown to the public, has a right-wing voting record, and has been a supporter of Donald Trump. He grills witnesses effectively but calmly, with no visible anger.
It was a subdued night as the White House appeared to try to balance hosting a state dinner for Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese amid a backdrop of violent international conflicts. The White House had made the decision to scale back on the potential party-like atmosphere at the Wednesday dinner in the wake of the...
The stunning rise of newly minted Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) marks the end of weeks of chaos in the House and the Republican Conference. After bitter and personal battles sank three other Speaker options, House Republicans found Johnson to be the conservative constitutionalist with a dash of Southern charm that they needed to end the...
Former President Trump congratulated newly elected Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on winning the Speaker’s gavel Wednesday — and took credit for Johnson’s quick rise to victory. “I just want to congratulate Mike Johnson. He will be a great Speaker of the House, and we were very happy to have helped,” Trump said to reporters outside...
Florida officials have ordered state universities and colleges to disband pro-Palestinian student chapters on their respective campuses amid the ongoing war between Israel and the militant group Hamas. In a letter to state university presidents sent Tuesday, State University System Chancellor Ray Rodrigues directed them to disband chapters of the National Students for Justice in...