The House GOP’s attacks on Ivy League university presidents have dominated the news lately, but the House GOP also led a less-covered attack on higher ed last week. That was the passage of the DETERRENT Act, which occurred last Wednesday with a vote of 246 to 170. As the report…

Back in August, the Biden administration made significant progress in negotiations with Iran to secure the release of five Iranian-Americans detained in Iran. …

The House of Representatives has been passing spending bills over the past few weeks to assert Republican priorities as a shutdown looms. These appropriations bills always come with a long series of amendment votes, and this past week, Republicans used those to attack climate action, gun violence prevention, and DEI…

Amidst the long series of Republican hardliner amendments that the House voted on last week, every so often Republican hardliners ended up on the right side of an issue. Take, for example, Victoria Spartz (IN-05)’s amendment to prohibit funds from being used to carry out the commodity checkoff program. The…

House Republicans have been racing toward a shutdown of the federal government, as they refuse to honor a deal already negotiated with President Biden over the summer. This past week, the House has been voting on a series of appropriations bills and trying to keep the votes of the Republican…

As Republicans in the House rush to pass the appropriations bills that they have failed to pass, largely due to the demands of their nihlistic hardliners, and pretend that they aren’t rooting for a government shutdown, they have been taking a LOT of votes, as is the case with appropriations…

What do Marjorie Taylor Greene and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez agree on? Well, obviously, not much. But it’s always fascinating to identify the rare points of agreement between the left flank and right flank in Congress (even if their reasons may be different). We saw one such example in the summer when…

Yesterday, I wrote about how Republicans were waging culture war through the FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). But it’s important to remember that there are more bad votes than just those: bloating an already bloated warfare state is at the heart of every year’s votes on the NDAA…

On Friday, the US House voted 219 to 210 for a contentious National Defense Authorization Act, which House Republicans had used as a vehicle for culture war fights. House Democratic Leadership encouraged members to vote NO, highlighting the following major flaws of the bill as it was brought to the…