Tag

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.

But another budget battle will likely ensue then, as Congress remains divided over federal funding for women’s health organization Planned Parenthood.

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.

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards answered questions before a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on September 29, as congressional efforts to end taxpayer funding of the nation’s largest abortion provider continue.

And in May 2011, then-senator John Kerry, who ended up succeeding her as secretary of state, wrote from his iPad to tell her of his dinner with Afghan president Hamid Karzai. But Clinton said that the passport application must “retain the presumption of a mother and...

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...

On Sunday, as China president, Xi Jinping, prepared to share his thoughts on women’s equality at a United Nations meeting on gender, Hillary Clinton offered her own take on the day’s events.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced Monday that he will run for speaker, vowing that if elected to the chamber’s top post he would “change the culture” of Washington and strive for the “most conservative solution” he can get.

Orrin Hatch went off on far-right conservatives who would shut down the federal government over funding for Planned Parenthood, an approach he called “downright stupid”.

A temporary funding measure that would keep the government open past a midnight deadline should make its way to President Barack Obama on Wednesday with time to spare.

The makers claim it shows Planned Parenthood employees negotiating the sale of fetal tissue for profit, which is illegal.

Congress is expected to approve a measure on Wednesday, which will avoid a government shutdown, and continue funding health services at Planned Parenthood, at least for several more months.