Republicans

WASHINGTON — The nation’s largest national trade association for the trucking industry is throwing its support behind a Republican effort to urge the Environmental Protection Agency to put the brakes on newly announced emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles. Unveiled in... Read More

WASHINGTON — An effort by the Republican National Committee and Nevada GOP to purge voters from the state’s voter roll has been dismissed by a federal court.  After a two-hour hearing last week in Las Vegas, U.S. District Judge Cristina... Read More

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked legislation that would have established a national right to in vitro fertilization, as the chamber’s Democrats continued an effort to put their GOP colleagues on the defensive ahead of the November elections. The... Read More

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked legislation that would have protected women’s access to contraception, dismissing the bill as nothing more than a political stunt by Democrats in an election year. The bill, the Right to Contraception Act, needed... Read More

WASHINGTON — Two conservative Republicans in Congress are waging an aggressive campaign of filing official complaints against the legal authorities assigned to criminal and civil cases against former President Donald Trump. On Tuesday, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., filed an ethics... Read More

WASHINGTON — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Wednesday he is stepping down as his party’s leader in the Senate, bringing the curtain down on a historic tenure in the chamber. McConnell’s announcement was apparently something of a surprise... Read More

CHARLESTON, S.C. — André Bauer still remembers the moment he believes South Carolina became a nominee-maker when it comes to national presidential politics. “I must have been 11 or 12 at the time and early on, former Texas Gov. John... Read More

FRENCHMAN’S REEF, St. Thomas — Former President Donald Trump garnered another commanding win Thursday night, handily winning arguably the most festive event to date of the 2024 election season — the Virgin Islands Republican caucuses. That the vote was pulled... Read More

CONCORD, N.H. — Voter turnout for the 2024 New Hampshire presidential primary on Tuesday exceeded the secretary of state’s expectations despite the fact many complained beforehand that this year’s contest lacked the oomph of previous primary seasons. Numbers released Wednesday... Read More

WASHINGTON — The House Republican Conference voted to withdraw its endorsement of Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, for House speaker by secret ballot Friday afternoon, evidently seeing no need to prolong the misery after the House Judiciary chair lost in three... Read More

WASHINGTON — Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, failed for a third time to secure enough Republican votes to become the speaker of the House on Friday, as even more members of his party appeared to abandon him. In the end the... Read More

RALEIGH, N.C. — Republican state legislators in North Carolina unveiled two new congressional maps on Wednesday, both of which, according to critics, appear to ensure the GOP will pick up seats in Congress after the 2024 election. At present, the... Read More

WASHINGTON – Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., a member of Congress since 2011, has announced that he is challenging Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio to be the next House speaker. Scott, whose Georgia district runs down the middle of the state, from... Read More

WASHINGTON — House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., narrowly won the Republican nomination to be the next speaker of the House on Wednesday, setting the stage for a floor vote that is still less than certain. The announcement of Scalise’s... Read More

WASHINGTON — Republicans on the House Budget Committee on Tuesday rolled out a 10-year budget plan they contend will “right size” the federal bureaucracy, balance the budget, and in doing so, cut the nation’s bulging deficit by more than $16... Read More

WASHINGTON — Democrats and Republicans set their differences aside Wednesday night to enjoy a game of America’s pastime. The 88th Congressional Baseball Game, won by the Republicans 16-6 in their third straight victory, raised over $1.8 million for various charities.... Read More

WASHINGTON — Frustrated Republicans walked out of debt ceiling talks on Friday, unexpectedly bringing a halt to the critical negotiations just days before the United States faces the first ever default on its financial obligations. “We decided to press pause... Read More

WASHINGTON — House Republicans passed their border protection bill in a 219-213 vote on Thursday, just hours before President Biden is about to end the use of the COVID-19 health emergency as a means to bar illegal immigrants from entering... Read More

WASHINGTON — House Republicans put more pressure on social media companies Thursday by introducing a bill that would block the Biden administration from trying to remove certain kinds of information from their websites. Republicans who introduced the bill said they... Read More

WASHINGTON — The first two weeks of a Republican-controlled House of Representatives will feature a hard tilt to the right with lawmakers voting on a number of messaging bills sure to make no headway in a Senate controlled by the... Read More

WASHINGTON — Elon Musk may have invited former President Donald Trump back to Twitter, but it’s the Biden administration that is taking full advantage of the social media platform for some pre-holiday messaging. In a Tweet posted shortly after 9... Read More

WASHINGTON — For months talk of the 2022 midterms has centered on who will control the House and Senate, and how the outcome will shape the remainder of President Joe Biden’s current term in office. The focus was no different... Read More

LEVITTOWN, N.Y. – Joe Mondello, the longtime leader of the Nassau County Republican Party in New York and a sometimes feared, often admired political powerbroker on the national stage, has died. The chairman, as many called him over the years,... Read More

WASHINGTON —The summer of 2022 has shaped up to be a season of discontent for those who consider themselves climate activists and fans of the environment. It began three weeks ago, when a majority of justices in the U.S. Supreme... Read More

WASHINGTON — A site selection panel has selected Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the host city for the 2024 Republican National Convention. The panel’s pick isn’t the final word, however, as the full RNC must approve the selection committee’s choice at its... Read More

WASHINGTON — A federal judge has tossed out a Republican National Committee bid to block a subpoena to a third-party vendor from the select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, siege on the U.S. Capitol by angry supporters of then-President... Read More

WASHINGTON — With just two states, New Hampshire and Missouri, left to finalize congressional district maps ahead of the 2022 midterms, attention is now shifting to primary contests and the inevitable litigation that the decennially-drawn maps inspire. On Friday, The... Read More

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida House of Representatives on Thursday voted to advance a redistricting plan proposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that will likely place the state’s representation on Capitol Hill further into the Republican column while eliminating a district... Read More

WASHINGTON — Republican senators took the podium during a press conference on Wednesday to call on the Biden administration to increase domestic oil and gas production to stifle rising gas prices. The conference featured remarks from Sens. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho,... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Wisconsin Supreme Court erred in not sufficiently considering the actual requirements of the Voting Rights Act when it imposed a map drawn by Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers over other proposals, the U.S. Supreme Court said on... Read More