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Republicans voted 216-207 on Wednesday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over the audio of President Joe Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur. Rep. David Joyce, R-Ohio, voted…

House Republicans are demanding a briefing from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) over the CIA’s alleged interference with investigations related to President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. On Tuesday, the chairmen of the House Oversight…

Imagine if you were provided $50 million to build a tank, but you were able to do the job properly for only $32 million. In the normal world, you would be applauded for getting the job done under budget. You might even get a promotion. In…

In the 1940 novel You Can’t Go Home Again, author Thomas Wolfe illustrates the futility of attempting to relive or return to past experiences or situations because people and places inevitably change over time. This is the situation America…

House Republicans forced Dr. Anthony Fauci to answer for inconsistencies in his approach to Covid-19 during his Monday morning testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. The hearing was Fauci’s first public…

Federal agencies under Dr. Anthony Fauci’s leadership received hundreds of millions in pharmaceutical royalties over the coronavirus pandemic. According to an investigation by the nonprofit government watchdog Open the Books,…

House Republicans called top Manhattan prosecutors to testify before lawmakers following the unprecedented felony conviction of the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. On Friday, the Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal…

House Republicans keep thinking they can “build a better mousetrap” when it comes to federal earmarks. Their actions keep making the case for Congress to ban them (again) outright. Following a controversy earlier this year surrounding…

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., filed the IVF Protection Act on Monday, a reactionary political move to Alabama’s ruling earlier this year affirming basic biological and scientific reality that embryos are, in fact,…

Industry interest groups have spent more than $400 million lobbying lawmakers on the 2024 farm bill, according to a recent report from the Union for Concerned Scientists. It should be no surprise, then, that the legislation unveiled by…