Steve Scalise
WASHINGTON — House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., announced Friday that he has successfully completed chemotherapy treatments for a form of blood cancer known as multiple myeloma, and is undergoing a stem cell transplant today. The statement released by Scalise’s... Read More
WASHINGTON — House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., has released the House calendar for the 2024 election year, a plan that calls for lawmakers to spend 28 workweeks in Washington, and optimistically has them breaking for the election season on... Read More
NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court has temporarily paused a lower court ruling that required the Biden administration to proceed with and expand a planned offshore oil and gas auction in the Gulf of Mexico. The auction in question... Read More
WASHINGTON — House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., withdrew from the race to be the next speaker of the House Thursday night, a stunning development that appears to have left his Republican conference in a state of absolute dysfunction. Scalise... 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 — House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., has entered the race to replace ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., setting up a two-way contest for the post against Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. In a lengthy letter to the members... Read More
WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday passed the energy bill the new Republican leadership said was its top priority, but in the wake of the vote, the Senate’s top Democrat said the legislation is dead on arrival in his chamber.... Read More
WASHINGTON — After weeks of introducing “messaging” resolutions aimed at pleasing the party’s hardcore base of so-called “MAGA Republicans,” the House GOP this week is rolling out its first major piece of legislation. Called H.R. 1 — the Lower Energy... Read More
WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders from the House and Senate on Wednesday blasted away at a GOP proposal to do away with all income and payroll taxes and replace the lost federal revenue with a massive hike in the sales tax.... Read More
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration last week announced it will wind down the pandemic-era order known as Title 42 in late May. Though always controversial, the decision to do away with what were, in essence, summary deportations in the name... Read More
WASHINGTON -- Legislation intended to prevent China from threatening U.S. telecom networks was front and center Wednesday during a meeting of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. Introduced by House Republican Whip Steve Scalise, R-La. and... Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) — The No. 2 House Republican publicly called Wednesday for the removal of Rep. Liz Cheney from the party's leadership, adding momentum to the drive to topple her after she clashed repeatedly with former President Donald Trump. Rep.... Read More
WASHINGTON - It's the election insiders were talking about while most of America was still wondering what would happen on Election Day. Every two years, the election of a new Congress is followed closely by caucus leadership elections. On Tuesday,... Read More