November 21, 2024
Incoming Rep. Tom Barrett won’t be a typical freshman lawmaker. He lost the most expensive House race in America in 2022, before scoring a victory and flipping the seat after the incumbent, Rep. Elissa Slotkin, vacated the seat to run for Senate.
November 21, 2024
Rep. Bill Huizenga (R., Mich), a top contender to chair the House’s Financial Services Committee next Congress, is touting to Republicans that he’s donated over $10 million to elect House Republicans since he first won in 2010 — all while while Democrats spent over $1 million dollars to defeat him in one of America’s most pivotal swing states.
November 21, 2024
Nineteen Senate Democrats have voted for legislation that would restrict U.S. weapons sales to Israel, America’s closest ally in the Middle East. Some foreign policy observers told the Washington Reporter the votes group such Democrats into a “Hamas Caucus.”
November 21, 2024
With just weeks before Donald Trump assumes office, Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) has warned the Department of Justice (DOJ) against improperly deleting records, according to a letter he sent to the department’s Assistant Attorney General, Jonathan Kanter.
November 21, 2024
An American energy independence advocacy group has launched Lame Duck Watch in an effort to hold the Biden administration accountable in its waning days, and to “expose any attempted malfeasance” as Democratic political appointees exit Washington, D.C.
November 21, 2024
Gov. Kristi Noem (R., S.D.) will likely leave office soon to assume her role as America’s next head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); but the race to succeed her, especially assuming the seat becomes open quickly, is a jump ball between the state’s lone representative in Congress, Dusty Johnson, and the state’s attorney general, Marty Jackley.
