Tag Archives: Kevin McCarthy

Politico reports: There’s been lots of talk but little progress towards a solution to the upcoming debt ceiling crisis on Capitol Hill. Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is set to meet this week with President Joe Biden at the White House to discuss Congress’ need to pay the tab it’s already racked up. All eyes will be on the Biden-McCarthy meeting …

“These are members who just got elected by their constituents and we put them into committees and we’re proud to do it. You look at all the questions out there. I think what the American public wants to see is an open dialog in the process. This is a select committee where people can have all the questions they want …

CNN reports: Fewer than one-third of Americans believe that House GOP leaders are prioritizing the country’s most important issues, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. Just 27% of US adults say they think Republican leaders in the House have had the right priorities so far, while 73% say they haven’t paid enough attention to the country’s most …

NBC News reports: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said today that while he stands by Rep. George Santos, the freshman congressman from New York would be removed from office if the Ethics Committee finds he broke the law after he admitted fabricating parts of his background. Asked whether he is standing by Santos because his resignation would cut into the House …

The New York Times reports: Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday unilaterally exiled Representatives Adam B. Schiff and Eric Swalwell from the House Intelligence Committee, making good on a longstanding threat to expel the California Democrats in his first major act of partisan retribution since taking the majority. The move was a much-anticipated tit-for-tat after Democrats, then in the majority, voted …

NBC News reports: Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Monday tapped Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell to continue serving on the House Intelligence Committee, teeing up a long-anticipated fight with Speaker Kevin McCarthy who has vowed to block the pair from keeping their seats on the powerful panel. The move means that the relationship between Jeffries, a New Yorker and …

CNN reports: In the middle of the day, the water pressure would drop completely. Cranking up both hot and cold could only coax a little drip out of the faucet. Then there was the water itself, contaminated with chemicals from agriculture runoff. Throughout McCarthy’s tenure, this region of California has spent more time than any other part of the country …

Fox News reports: House Republicans have officially ended the practice of proxy voting, which was established during the COVID-19 pandemic to permit lawmakers to vote without being present in-person. Proxy voting was established by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi in May 2020 to allow Congress to operate under COVID-19 protocols. Republicans have argued this policy enabled abuse, though many GOP lawmakers …

Axios reports: The White House on Wednesday condemned the addition of far-right Republicans to the House Oversight Committee, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Scott Perry (R-Pa.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.). The White House did not explicitly name the four members, but cited examples of Greene and Gosar promoting violence against other members of Congress that led …

Puck News reports: Republicans have been fixated on whether 71-year-old Rep. Vern Buchanan might retire from Congress after losing the House Ways & Means chairmanship to the 42-year-old Speaker’s pet Jason Smith, potentially reducing Kevin McCarthy’s margin of error from four votes to three. Just how angry was he? A source on the House floor during the vote told me …

Mediaite reports: “I always had a few questions about it,” McCarthy said about the background of Santos. The speaker made clear, however, that he never knew anything for sure about his fellow Republican’s supposed resume. McCarthy was asked about a specific report accusing a Santos staffer of pretending to be McCarthy’s chief of staff over the phone during the campaign. …

Punchbowl News reports: Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have finally reached an agreement on ratios for four exclusive committees, the most highly-sought after assignments for members. And things are mostly staying the same. With Republicans navigating the same narrow majority that Democrats had in the last Congress, we didn’t expect huge shakeups on the “A” committees …

Axios reports: Reps. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) and Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) issued a letter Sunday to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Chair of the House Republican Caucus Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), and Congressional Leadership Fund President Dan Conston calling on them to cooperate with the investigations into Santos. “In light of recent public reporting indicating that each of you had at least some …

Mediaite reports: Adam Kinzinger’s shots at McCarthy stemmed from a conversation with Bulwark’s Charlie Sykes this week on the topic of Rep. George Santos (R-NY). Sykes suggested McCarthy may do nothing at all to Santos, and Kinzinger, who recently signed on with CNN, eagerly agreed, describing him as a power-hungry leader. “Kevin’s a piece of shit,” Kinzinger said. “And let’s …

The Hill reports: Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Thursday that he would consider expunging one or both of former President Trump’s impeachments. “I would understand why members would want to bring that forward,” McCarthy said in response to a question at a press conference on Thursday. In the last Congress, a group of more than 30 House Republicans led by …

CNN reports: Santos has so far been defiant, pushing back on calls for his resignation – and House GOP leadership has not called on him to do so. Instead, McCarthy, a Republican from California, has indicated he will not join demands from New York GOP leaders, and others, for Santos’ resignation – and has indicated that Santos is on track …

Politico reports: Kevin McCarthy’s concessions to conservatives did more than win him the speaker’s gavel — they empowered House progressives to wreak havoc. And they’re eager to mess with him. Republicans’ new rules allow just one member, regardless of party, to force a floor vote on deposing the speaker. And liberal Democrats, some of whom are part of the progressive …

Media Matters has the transcript: Let’s talk about a moment — maybe it comes sooner, maybe it comes later — on the debt ceiling. And you know how the argument will unfold. It’ll be “Republicans are shutting down government.” I’ve been around this game too long. Government never shuts down. Essential services will exist. Grandma, mom and dad, they’re going …

Axios reports: A private document that only some House Republicans have seen and others refuse to talk about could play an outsized role in the governance of the chamber over the next two years. The document contains concessions — not included in the rules package passed on Monday night — that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) made to rebellious Freedom …

The Washington Post reports: House Republicans on Monday commissioned a special investigative panel focused on the coronavirus pandemic, hoping to leverage their new, powerful majority to press scientists and federal officials about the origin of the public health crisis and the government’s response to it. Republicans have long derided Democrats, public health experts and others who advocated for an aggressive …