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King is hoping the candidates for speaker explain tonight how they plan to restore the power of the legislative branch.

The same House conservatives who not so quietly helped push out Speaker John Boehner have been tight-lipped about whom they want to replace him.

Cruz yielded the floor but not before he was able to take one more shot at Republican leadership.

“Given that reality, uniting behind a candidate that can get to the 218 votes necessary to win the Speakership is critically important”. “That doesn’t signal change”. Chaffetz said many Republican lawmakers wanted a change in leadership.

“He’s going to fall short of the 218 votes on the floor of the House“.

Conservative Republicans are very much against the spending bill’s inclusion of federal dollars for Planned Parenthood, and News 3’s Noelle Bellow has reaction form one local health group.

Despite speculation that Democrats would boycott the committee’s future proceedings, Rep. Elijah Cummings (R-MD), the top Democrat, said he will be there to defend Clinton from Republicans’ “political attacks”.

In the Senate, Hatch voted for the spending bill, while Sen.

Vicari’s brother told her that anyone who responded “yes” was shot in the head.

“I will not sign another short-sighted spending bill like the one Congress sent me this week”, he said.

McCarthy was elected to Congress in 2006, and was quickly put into the job of chief deputy whip and majority whip.

Last Friday, House Speaker John Boehner walked up to a podium in the Capitol dome singing.

McCarthy’s “candid admission”, he writes, exposes the true aim of the Benghazi committee – “exploiting the death of four Americans for partisan political gain”. But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield on Monday formally launched his bid to become speaker of the House, promising to change the culture in Washington but offering few specifics on how he would unite the fractured Republican Party that controls Congress.

The push to defund Planned Parenthood has also been championed by Cruz, although he has deflected the idea that he and other Republican lawmakers would be shutting down the government if they refused to pass legislation that didn’t strip funding from the organization. But a...