FIRST ON FOX: The House Oversight Committee is setting its sights on insurance companies that may have discriminated against entities with right-wing views. The committee is also looking into whether retirees’ pension accounts were being used to invest in progressive policies they may not necessarily agree with, Fox News Digital …
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Preventing a shutdown caused a shutdown. A shutdown of the House of Representatives. Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., advanced a plan to prevent a government shut down late last month. McCarthy’s gambit cost him his job. It also plunged the House into an unprecedented period of parliamentary sclerosis. THE …
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FIRST ON FOX: A House Democratic lawmaker is demanding an investigation into whether American consumers are being cheated out of thousands of dollars by so-called “sports blackouts” and whether they are a result of broadcast monopolies abusing their power. “Yesterday was the sports equinox, the one day of the year …
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Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., has survived two other efforts to oust him from Congress in recent weeks. But the third time may be the charm for lawmakers who believe Santos is unfit to serve. The House likely votes in the coming days on a measure to expel Santos for his …
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A group of House Democrats from New Jersey are complaining that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republican border state governors have “foisted” a “humanitarian crisis” on the Garden State. Buses of undocumented migrants have been dropped off at various NJ Transit train stations in recent days, New Jersey officials …
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House lawmakers will be off to the races when they’re back on Capitol Hill Monday, for the first week of their 2024 legislative session. The GOP majority has scheduled several big priorities for the week of Jan. 8 related to two separate impeachment probes as well as a visit to …
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House Speaker Mike Johnson met with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday to discuss what kind of role Congress has to play in legislating on artificial intelligence. “It was a very good meeting,” Johnson told reporters afterward. “We talked about where we are with regard to …
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FIRST ON FOX: Google vowed on Tuesday to offer YouTube accounts that were permanently banned for political speech the ability to be reinstated, and the big tech giant admitted that it once faced pressure from the Biden administration to remove content about COVID-19. Google detailed its remarkable shift in a …
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It’s often hard to separate the noise from the signal in politics. The noise is that congressional Democrats are fighting President Donald Trump and Republicans over a prospective government shutdown and healthcare spending. The signal is scratchy. But if you turn the squelch knob, you may detect the signal. We …
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., appears to be holding firm on his strategy for pressuring Senate Democrats to agree to end the government shutdown, he indicated in both public and private comments Thursday. But even as he and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., continue with their plans, some House …
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