#house-floor

#house-floor

In case you missed it, there was chaotic energy at the Capitol on Tuesday.What was supposed to be a day filled with run-of-the-mill leadership votes and swearing-in ceremonies descended into chaos when Kevin McCarthy lost the Speaker of the House vote not once, not twice, but three times.Amid the main spectacle, here's what else happened yesterday at the Capitol.

The lawmakers' demands have included allowing any one member to force a vote on the House floor to depose a speaker.The Club for Growth also mirrored those members' calls for prohibiting the Congressional Leadership Fund, a campaign committee closely aligned with McCarthy, from "spending money or providing grants to any Super PAC to engage ... in open Republican primaries or against any Republican incumbent."

A White House official acknowledged that a snag had occurred without indicating that either side had walked away from the table: "There are real differences between the parties on budget issues and talks will be difficult.The President's team is working hard towards a reasonable bipartisan solution that can pass the House and the Senate."

Senate primaries next year will hinge on a number of differences between candidates, many of them more important.But the vote could become a major factor, especially as Republicans try to win over a bloc of GOP primary voters who take a dim view of the party's leaders in Washington.Rosendale, a two-term representative, has been one of McCarthy's more public opponents, writing in an op-ed for a local paper that he "squandered every opportunity to protect Americans from woke policies."

Democrats moved on Tuesday to force a vote within days on removing Representative George Santos of New York from Congress, an attempt to press Republicans to either endorse or abandon a serial liar in their ranks who has been indicted on charges of wire fraud, money laundering, stealing public funds and lying to the government.

Representative George Santos's campaign and six affiliated political committees filed statements on Wednesday indicating they were removing his longtime treasurer, Nancy Marks, who has been connected to nearly every Santos-related fund and one of Mr. Santos's private business ventures.But the move as with so many things regarding Mr. Santos, who has admitted to falsehoods on the campaign trail and misleading statements about his background was clouded by mystery and immediately provoked questions.

The House voted Thursday to pass a bill that would help recover fraudulent unemployment insurance benefits paid out during the pandemic.The final vote was 230-200, with 10 Democrats crossing over to vote with the Republicans.An ironic twist on the House floor occurred when now-indicted New York Republican Rep. George Santos, who has been accused of committing this same fraud, voted for the bill.

A Montana judge on Tuesday denied a request for the court to intervene and return state Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr's access to the House floor.Zephyr, who is the first openly transgender woman elected to the Montana's legislature, was banned last week by state House Republicans from the chamber for the rest of this year's legislative session.

WASHINGTON House Republicans on Thursday were poised to push through a sweeping bill that would crack down on unlawful migration at the U.S.-Mexico border, blowing past solid Democratic opposition in a move timed to spotlight their hard-line stance on immigration in the face of a potential border surge.

US Capitol Police are ramping up security for President Joe Biden's State of the Union address to Congress next week, including adding a non-scalable fence around the Capitol grounds, according to two sources familiar with the plans.Intelligence officials in the police department warned in an email circulated to the force on Friday that the threat level remains elevated ahead of Biden's annual address set for Tuesday night.

Gianforte's son, who is nonbinary, told him "these bills are immoral, unjust, and frankly a violation of human rights."Montana Republican Governor Greg Gianforte speaks in Emigrant, Montana on July 24, 2021.William Campbell / Getty Images Weeks after Montana Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte's son called on him to veto a bill to ban gender-affirming healthcare for minors, the governor signed the legislation into law Friday, making Montana the 11th state in the past three months to enact full or partial bans on transition surgery, hormonal treatment, and puberty blockers for youths.

A law that would codify federal protections for same-sex marriages cleared a procedural hurdle in the U.S Senate on Wednesday, overcoming the 60-vote filibuster threshold and setting the stage for approval.Senators voted 62-37 in favor of ending debate on the Respect for Marriage Act and advancing it to the floor for an up-or-down vote.

Things really started to spin out on the floor of the House.It got so out of control, I thought I was watching the Oscars.JIMMY KIMMEL Ahead of the last round of voting for House speaker, Alabama Congressman Mike Rogers appeared to charge at fellow Republican Representative Matt Gaetz.And, out of habit, Gaetz yelled I've never even met your daughter!' SETH MEYERS That's a face mask violation 15 yards.

For the fourth day in a row, Kevin McCarthy has failed to secure enough votes to become Speaker of the House.Rep. Mary Peltola speaks to supporters at a watch party on November 8, 2022, in Anchorage, Alaska.Spencer Platt / Getty Images As the impasse over choosing a speaker of the House of Representatives continues for a fourth day, Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) has expressed an openness to supporting a bipartisan "coalition" candidate to end the stalemate.

Libs of TikTok creator Chad Raichik tried confronting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) at her congressional office, accusing the Democrat of spreading lies about her.Libs of TikTok is a social media account that has amassed a massive following and sparked controversy as critics claim it's promoting homophobia.

Republicans on a powerful House committee voted to advance a bill on Wednesday that would allow President Joe Biden to ban TikTok from the United States, despite objections from Democrats and civil liberty groups.In a 24-16 vote, the House Foreign Affairs Committee greenlit Rep. Michael McCaul's (R-TX) Deterring America's Technological Adversaries Act, or DATA Act, sending it to the House floor.

The donations were among hundreds McCarthy spread around to the Republican conference and GOP challengers as he sought to help Republicans win the House majority in 2021 and 2022.Most candidates received the maximum $10,000 - $5,000 each for the primary and the general election - although a few only got support for the general election.

Five Republicans so far are threatening to oppose McCarthy in that vote, a number that's possibly enough to derail him given the slim GOP majority next year.But other GOP lawmakers have grown increasingly frustrated as those conservatives decline to float a viable alternate candidate, with some predicting that McCarthy's foes don't have a fallback plan or any possible consensus pick.

Congress is considering whether to seat a delegate from the Cherokee Nation for the first time - a proposal nearly 200 years in the making.The non-voting delegate would be Kimberly Teehee, a former Obama administration adviser on Native American issues, who was appointed to the position in 2019.Non-voting members of Congress have no say on the final passage of bills, but they can speak on the House floor and introduce legislation.

Former President Donald Trump has been privately encouraging allies to support House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's bid for House speaker, according to two sources familiar with the effort, believing that the California Republican will be an asset down the road should the former president find himself in a contested 2024 primary.