#Republicans point fingers after embarrassing defeats

#Republicans point fingers after embarrassing defeats

House Republicans are struggling to pick up the pieces after a series of crushing legislative defeats that highlighted the simmering strife within the GOP conference and triggered new attacks on GOP leaders heading into a critical election cycle.  “Last night was not a good night for Republicans in the House, and anybody who says it was…

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#Scalise grateful for his health this Thanksgiving

#Scalise grateful for his health this Thanksgiving

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) says he’s grateful for his health this Thanksgiving, three months after announcing that he had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma. “I’m thankful for my health, and just the love and support from family and friends,” Scalise said Monday on SiriusXM’s “The Julie Mason Show.” “I’m feeling great. I’m in the last…

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#Stephanopoulos presses Scalise on whether 2020 election was stolen: ‘Yes or no’

#Stephanopoulos presses Scalise on whether 2020 election was stolen: ‘Yes or no’

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) refused to answer whether the 2020 election was stolen when pressed eight separate times in a Sunday interview with ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos. Asked about conservative Rep. Ken Buck’s (R-Colo.) decision to leave Congress and his departing remark that “too many Republican leaders are lying to America, claiming that…

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#House GOP punts vote on transportation  funding amid Amtrak concerns 

#House GOP punts vote on transportation  funding amid Amtrak concerns 

House Republicans are punting plans to vote on a housing and transportation government funding bill this week amid concerns from members over costs and Amtrak.  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said earlier Thursday that the House would bring up the legislation — which lays out full-year funding for the departments of Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies — this…

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#GOP ditches Jordan and scrambles for Speaker: Five takeaways

#GOP ditches Jordan and scrambles for Speaker: Five takeaways

House Republicans ditched Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) as their nominee for Speaker on Friday, thrusting the GOP conference back to square one and escalating the chaos that has ensnared the group for nearly three weeks. Jordan is the second Speaker nominee to be rejected by House Republicans. Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), who initially clinched…

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