by Marcos Bretón When former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made the incredible remark that the United States has never sought land after winning a war, except to bury its war dead, he was pilloried on social media and mainstream media for being ignorant. McCarthy, a California ...
by Doyle McManus John A. Boehner lasted five years as House speaker before he ran out of patience with his party’s hardline Freedom Caucus. “Legislative terrorists,” the Ohio Republican called its members after he quit in 2015. “They can’t tell you what they’re for. They ...
by Carl P. Leubsdorf Years of broken promises, political reversals and obeisance to the GOP’s Trumpian elements finally caught up this week with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. By reneging on last May’s budget deal with President Joe Biden and on procedural promises to fellow ...
Why should Congress get paid for shutting down the government? Maybe Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig was trolling House Speaker Kevin McCarthy when she introduced the My Constituents Cannot Afford Rebellious Tantrums, Handle Your (MCCARTHY) Shutdown Act, but we suspect many Americans would ...
by Jackie Calmes For years, I stalked the Capitol halls amid Congress’ fiscal-year-end follies, waiting with other reporters for a breakthrough to end the latest faux crisis. I’m hard-pressed to recall a budget fight so politically self-defeating as the one now cleaving the House ...
by Noah Feldman The decision by the House Republican leadership to open an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden — without any evidence of wrongdoing — marks a low point in the mis-deployment of the Constitution’s mechanism for removing a sitting president. Bad as it is, however, ...