Three House Democrats joined Republicans in voting to censure Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) on Thursday, bucking party leadership to back a reprimand of their liberal colleague. Reps. Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.), Chris Pappas (D-N.H.) and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) all supported the censure resolution, bringing the final vote to 214-191-5. Four Democrats and one Republican voted “present:”...
Having more than a third of this revenue go to states instead — a proportion that will total hundreds of millions of dollars within 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office — would be a welcome development.
Republicans in the Georgia House approved a new congressional map Thursday, which is set to keep the GOP’s 9-5 majority in state representation, one Democrats claim doesn’t follow the court order which forced lawmakers to make new maps in the first place. The new maps split Rep. Lucy McBath’s (D-Ga.) northeast Atlanta district between neighboring...
Chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) on Thursday announced an investigation into three top colleges following major backlash to their presidents’ testimony at a hearing about antisemitism on campuses this week. "The testimony we received earlier this week from Presidents Gay, Magill, and Kornbluth about the responses...
More than a dozen Democratic Senators are working to enact conditions on military assistance to Israel as part of President Biden’s nearly $111 billion national security supplemental request. The move is an effort by, largely, progressive Democrats in the Senate to address their alarm over the devastating humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip amid Israel’s...
CNN analyst Van Jones said he was “shaking” watching GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on the debate stage Wednesday night, warning that the country is witnessing “the rise of an American demagogue.” In a panel discussion on CNN after the fourth GOP primary debate, Jones denounced Ramaswamy’s embrace of conspiracy theories and warned, “That guy...
Apparently, in the judge’s view, you can preserve, protect and defend something without supporting it.
A former pilot who allegedly tried to cut off an in-flight plane's engines, threatening the lives of dozens of people, is out of jail on a judge's ruling this week. Former pilot Joseph Emerson, 44, of Pleasant Hill, Calif., has pleaded not guilty to reckless endangerment after he previously faced attempted murder charges. Multnomah County...
Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story What we learned from the final GOP debate of the year Four Republican candidates sparred Wednesday in a fiery debate with huge stakes as the Iowa caucuses — and front-runner former President Trump — loom. © Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Nikki...
Rep. Kathy Manning (D-N.C.) announced on Thursday that she won’t seek reelection to her U.S. House seat in 2024 under new “egregiously gerrymandered” congressional maps in North Carolina. “I would love nothing more than to continue representing our community in Congress. Unfortunately, the egregiously gerrymandered maps do not make this race competitive, and I cannot...
AmeriCorps is a unifying cause that represents the heart of America, and it’s a catalyst for what’s already there: Good, decent people from all walks of life ready to do the hard work to help their communities.
The Senate health committee will hold a hearing next week on the diabetes epidemic in the U.S., committee chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said. Sanders, who earlier this year interrogated drug manufacturers about the high cost of insulin, told The Hill the hearing will focus broadly on the underlying causes of the rise in diabetes,...
A compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) negotiators in the House and Senate agreed on does not include a number of controversial amendments criticized as attacks against the LGBTQ community. House Republicans, who passed the amendments in July, agreed to drop them from the annual defense policy bill, according to an updated draft released Thursday. The...
A former executive who worked under Elon Musk after he purchased Twitter filed a lawsuit against the tech billionaire, claiming he was fired for raising concerns about security issues on the platform now known as X. Alan Rosa, the former head of Twitter's global information security, filed the suit in a New Jersey federal court...
A deputy U.S. marshal was charged Thursday with entering an aircraft while drunk after he was arrested in London over allegations of misconduct while on a flight from New York, according to local authorities. Michael Brereton, 39, was arrested Wednesday upon landing at Heathrow Airport in London after a flight crew alerted officers of an...
President Biden on Thursday took aim at former President Trump's travel ban policies, marking the eighth anniversary of the so-called "Muslim ban" pushed by Trump in the 2016 election. Trump released the proposal in December 2015, when he was vying for the Republican presidential nomination, calling “for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United...
The Senate on Thursday overcame its first procedural hurdle to passing the annual Defense policy bill despite an objection from Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), putting lawmakers on a path to finalizing the measure in the coming weeks. Senators voted 82-15 on the motion to proceed to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Usually the motion...
College leaders seeking to fend off accusations of failing to protect their students from rising antisemitism have instead shot themselves in the foot. For weeks the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were drowning in criticism of not taking the problem seriously enough after Hamas's...
Congress, in a draft version of the annual defense bill, has directed the Pentagon to review the reinstatement of U.S. troops who were discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. The provision is included in the compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), reached by negotiators in the Democratic-controlled Senate and Republican-controlled House and...
If reducing air pollution can cut dementia cases by 15 percent and delay age-related cognitive decline by a year or two for every senior citizen — as the science suggests it would — the U.S. would see substantial economic savings from the EPA’s tougher standards.
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.)— and his signature fashion accessory — is being recognized for his sartorial prowess, making the cut on the New York Times Style section’s “71 Most Stylish ‘People’ of 2023.” The newspaper explained, in the list released this week, that “people” was in quotations in the title of its list because “some weren’t people,...
Former President Trump filed a motion seeking to halt activity in his election interference case after filing a notice of appeal Thursday seeking to override a decision from a federal judge who denied his motion to toss the case. The back-to-back motions ask Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing the Jan. 6 case, to pause...
The White House on Thursday knocked the House Republicans’ resolution to formalize its impeachment inquiry into President Biden, calling it a waste of time. “This baseless stunt is not rooted in facts or reality, but in extreme House Republicans’ shameless desire to abuse their power to smear President Biden. Fox News already reported that the only...
Meta is rolling out default end-to-end encryption for all calls and messages on Facebook Messenger, the company announced on Wednesday. While users have had the option to turn on end-to-end encryption since 2016, the feature will now automatically apply to all private chats and calls, Loredana Crisan, the head of Messenger, said in a blog...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is taking heat from the hard-right conservative wing of his conference over the addition of a short-term extension of the nation’s warrantless surveillance powers in the Defense authorization bill. Johnson huddled with a slew of animated GOP lawmakers — many of whom had long given his ousted predecessor headaches — on...
