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Pelosi backs ethics probe of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s confrontation with AOC

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday characterized Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's run-in with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as "verbal assault and abuse" and suggested an ethics probe was warranted.

May 13, 2021

Chip Roy can’t find challenger to Trump-backed Stefanik

Rep. Chip Roy isn't ruling out challenging Rep. Elise Stefanik for the job of House Republican Conference chair -- but is actively seeking someone else to step up as the alternative to the Donald Trump-endorsed front-runner.

May 13, 2021

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vs. Marjorie Taylor Greene: Shouting, taunting, threat to call cops

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Thursday appeared to confirm that she had a confrontation with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez outside the House chamber, mocking her for threatening to call the police.

May 13, 2021

Bernie Sanders pitches free lunches for all children

Sen. Bernard Sanders wants more free lunches in the massive infrastructure plan Congress is writing -- and this time he means it literally.

May 12, 2021

Stefanik confident of a GOP leadership win: ‘We have great support’

Rep. Elise Stefanik predicted Wednesday that she has the votes to become the next House Republican Conference chair after fellow GOP member ousted Rep. Liz Cheney on Wednesday.

May 12, 2021

Donald Trump scares off challengers to Elise Stefanik’s rise to GOP leadership

The backing of former President Donald Trump helped keep the field clear of challengers to Rep. Elise Stefanik's bid to become the next House Republican Conference chair after fellow GOP members ousted Rep. Liz Cheney on Wednesday.

May 12, 2021

Miguel Cardona: College student Dreamers eligible for emergency grants

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona is announcing Tuesday that "Dreamers" are eligible for emergency grants for college students in COVID-19 relief bills, reversing the Trump administration policy that enforced the federal ban on giving most taxpayer benefits to immigrants who are in the country illegally.

May 11, 2021

Cathy McMorris Rodgers fights government control of broadband rates in expansion plan

House Democrats want to spend $100 billion to expand broadband internet to poor rural and inner-city communities and make permanent a COVID-19 program that pays $50 a month of the internet bill for low-income families while setting maximum prices that providers can charge in some cases.

May 10, 2021

Biden hits school-opening goal but leaves Black, Hispanic students behind

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on Thursday cheered President Biden for meeting the goal of reopening a majority of K-8 schools within his first 100 days in office, but he also acknowledged Black and Hispanic students returned to school at lower rates than their White classmates.

May 6, 2021

Nancy Pelosi refuses to denounce father Thomas D’Alesandro Jr.’s complicity in racism

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refuses to denounce her late father, former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., for supporting the erection of Confederate monuments in the city and perpetuating systemic racism by not stopping discriminatory practices, including refusing rental housing to Black people in White neighborhoods.

May 5, 2021

House Democrats eye minimum wage laws to fix past ‘racial discrimination’

House Democrats on Monday trumpeted plans to undo past racism by raising the minimum wage of tip workers and giving overtime pay to farm and live-in domestic workers.

May 3, 2021

Elimination of ‘qualified immunity’ a stumbling point in policing reform talks

Democratic and Republican senators searching for common ground on how to change policing in America are struggling over the divisive question of whether police officers should face lawsuits if they are accused of civil rights violations.

May 2, 2021

Senate Republicans criticize 1619 Project’s ‘divisive nonsense’ in letter to education secretary

Senate Republicans wrote Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on Friday expressing "grave concern" about the Biden administration's plans to push the controversial ideas of the "1619 Project" in the nation's classrooms.

April 30, 2021

Joe Biden ‘American Families Plan’ shifts child care costs to taxpayer

President Biden wants to spend $224 billion to reduce how much lower- and middle-income families pay for child care and make it free for the poorest parents.

April 29, 2021

Bernie Sanders to push Joe Biden on tuition-free college

Sen. Bernard Sanders said he's not going to give up on trying to get rid of tuition at all four-year public colleges.

April 28, 2021

‘Biden needs a reality check’: Tuition-free college for Dreamers gets chilly reception on the right

Conservatives blasted President Biden on Wednesday for including illegal immigrants in his plan for tuition-free community colleges.

April 28, 2021

Biden racial equity agenda targets ‘exclusionary’ single-family zoning in suburbs

President Biden wants to transform the character of many American cities and suburbs by building more apartment buildings in quiet and frequently disproportionately White neighborhoods of single-family homes.

April 28, 2021

Bernie Sanders pledges to put Medicare drug-price haggling in Biden’s next big spending bill

Sen. Bernard Sanders said Tuesday that he would rewrite President Biden's massive social-program spending bill to include allowing Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices from pharmaceutical companies.

April 27, 2021

Elizabeth Warren pushes Joe Biden to spend $700 billion on child care

Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday prodded President Biden to include $700 billion in his infrastructure package to make child care free for many parents -- far more than the $225 billion he is expected to propose when addressing a joint session of Congress this week.

April 27, 2021

Faith group slams HUD move barring shelters from deciding how to house transgender residents

A religious-rights group on Friday blasted a decision by Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge to reverse a Trump-era move that would have allowed faith-based groups running homeless shelters to decide which gender they consider transgender people to be.

April 23, 2021