Articles by Gabriella Muñoz
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Wednesday that the Democratic Party in Washington is actually less liberal after last year's elections, despite all the attention progressive lawmakers have been getting.
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May 8, 2019
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that the House could start to arrest Trump administration officials she deems are obstructing Congress's investigations -- but quipped that they don't have the jail space to hold everyone.
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May 8, 2019
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is backing the Judiciary Committee's push to hold Attorney General William P. Barr in contempt of Congress, suggesting Wednesday that the Trump administration isn't negotiating in good faith.
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May 8, 2019
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that President Trump is trying to "goad" Democrats to impeach him for political purposes -- but she said he's also making a pretty good case for why he should be impeached.
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May 7, 2019
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib's impeachment resolution gained another signature on Thursday, with Rep. Earl Blumenauer becoming its seventh co-sponsor.
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May 3, 2019
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Roughly 20 Democrats -- including at least four presidential candidates -- have publicly called for Attorney General William P. Barr to resign from the Justice Department.
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May 2, 2019
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The Democratic-led House voted Thursday to recommit the U.S. to the Paris climate accord negotiated by former President Barack Obama that his Republican successor is trying to tear up.
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May 2, 2019
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that Attorney General William P. Barr committed a crime by lying to Congress -- but stopped short of saying what consequences there should be.
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May 2, 2019
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President Trump's national security adviser suggested U.S. troops are raring to get involved in the escalating chaos in Venezuela but lawmakers on both sides of the aisle said Wednesday they haven't signed off on any such commitment.
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May 1, 2019
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still isn't calling for impeachment but did ramp up her anti-Trump rhetoric Wednesday, calling attempts to block congressional investigations into the White House "immoral, unethical, corrupt and unpatriotic."
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May 1, 2019
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Democrats returned from a two-week spring break enraged at President Trump -- but the appetite for impeachment remains low even in the wake of the release of the special counsel's report that found evidence of behavior that could be seen as obstruction of justice.
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April 30, 2019
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Progressive activists gathered in Washington this week to adopt an agenda they want the Democratic Party to embrace heading into the 2020 elections, demanding fealty to expansive government ideas such as a federal jobs guarantee and erasing drug convictions from criminal records.
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April 29, 2019
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If Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her allies are the vanguard of the Democratic Party's militant left, then Rep. Derek Kilmer and the New Democrat Coalition are the rearguard -- fighting to keep their party from tipping so far to the political margins that they leave mainstream voters behind.
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April 28, 2019
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Democrats' chances of defending their House majority next year could depend on the fate of three freshmen women -- and none of them is named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib.
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April 25, 2019
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set to meet with President Trump after Congress returns from Easter recess to discuss a bipartisan approach on infrastructure, even as members of her own party are clamoring to start impeachment proceedings against him.
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April 23, 2019
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Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed former White House counsel Don McGahn on Monday, requiring he appear in front of Congress by the end of next month.
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April 22, 2019
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Netflix released the trailer Monday for its new documentary "Knock Down the House" chronicling liberal lightning rod Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's stunning victory last summer.
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April 22, 2019
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The highest-ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee viewed a less-redacted copy of special counsel Robert Mueller's report at the Justice Department on Monday.
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April 22, 2019
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The ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee on Monday blasted Chairman Jerrold Nadler, accusing him of making "wildly inaccurate claims" about the Mueller report.
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April 22, 2019
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Key Democrats are calling for Don McGahn to testify before Congress after revelations in the Mueller report show the former White House counsel's refusal to follow through on Oval Office orders may have saved President Trump from potential obstruction of justice charges.
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April 21, 2019
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