Saturday

07-03-2026 Vol 19

Category: Congress

House members scramble to return to DC for megabill vote

Some House members are going to great lengths to make it back to to Washington for a vote on the Republican megabill after severe weather canceled dozens of flights....

Johnson, Trump push wary House Republicans for July 4 passage

A cross-section of GOP lawmakers is wary of the Senate package and wants to take their time.

Johnson on the megabill: ‘I’m not happy with what the Senate did to our product’

Speaker Mike Johnson said he’s not happy with the sprawling legislation Senate Republicans just sent back to the House. “I'm not happy with what the Senate did to our...

Senate Republicans shock the House with a supercharged megabill

How GOP senators put a big, beautiful stamp on President Donald Trump's signature legislation.

Pennsylvania House Democrat on Fetterman: ‘If you don’t want to be here, leave’

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) drew friendly fire from within his state’s congressional delegation, with Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) slamming him for his comments about missing his family’s “entire trip...

House Homeland Security Democrats allude to internment camps as they slam ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ facility

The House Homeland Security Committee’s Democratic members made allusions to Nazi Germany as they assailed “Alligator Alcatraz,” a new immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades that President Donald...

Trump reiterates July 4th megabill deadline

President Donald Trump reiterated his demand that Congress pass Republicans’ agenda-defining megabill before July 4th, despite softening on that deadline as recently as Tuesday morning. Trump urged House Republicans...

Ron Klain, other former aides scheduled to testify as part of GOP probe on Biden’s mental acuity

Several former top aides to former President Joe Biden agreed to interview with the House Oversight Committee as part of its probe of Biden's mental acuity while in office....

Chip Roy: Odds of House megabill passage by July 4 ‘hell of a lot lower’ now

Two Republican members of the House Rules Committee blasted the Senate-passed GOP megabill hours before the panel meets to prepare the legislation for a final decisive vote. Rep. Ralph...

Lisa Murkowski says it was ‘agonizing’ to vote for the megabill

Sen. Lisa Murkowski made the “agonizing” decision to vote for Senate Republicans’ version of the “big, beautiful” bill after winning key concessions on federal health and food-aid programs for...