News Analysis WASHINGTON—Washington pundits are portraying the contest for Senate majority leader as pitting two well-liked GOP establishment favorites—Sen. John Thune of South Dakota and Sen. John Cornyn of Texas—against Florida conservative Sen. Rick Scott, a relative youngster in Congress, who is expected to rock the boat big-time. But that narrative breaks down when the […]

BUTLER, Pa.—An assailant fired several shots at former President Donald Trump during a rally on July 13, piercing the former president’s right ear, killing a man in the stands, and critically injuring two others. The former president was airlifted to a nearby hospital and was in good health. His jet departed Pennsylvania minutes before midnight, […]

Senate Democrats on April 17 voted to dismiss two impeachment articles against Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, less than three hours after his impeachment trial began. The dismissals, made in party-line votes, came after vocal objections by Senate Republicans who said not allowing the impeachment to go to a full trial flouted the Constitution […]

The House of Representatives on April 16 formally presented to the Senate two counts of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas over the border crisis. The process kicks off a trial in the upper chamber starting on April 17, but it is expected to be quickly dealt with by Democrats before a full […]

The House of Representatives will send the articles of impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on April 10, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has announced. In a March 28 letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Mr. Johnson asked Mr. Schumer to schedule a trial “expeditiously.” Mr. Johnson noted that […]

Federal officials cannot constitutionally prevent Texas authorities from protecting their citizens against the invasion of illegal immigrants crossing into the Lone Star State at the Rio Grande River that President Joe Biden made possible on his first day in office in 2021, according to 47 House Republicans led by House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington […]

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on Feb. 13 became only the second presidential cabinet member ever to be impeached in the 236-year history of the United States government. Mr. Mayorkas, who was appointed by President Joe Biden and confirmed by the Democratic Senate in 2021, was impeached on two counts relating to his handling […]

Republicans in the House of Representatives will try a second time Tuesday after failing by one vote a week ago to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. They may succeed thanks to the return of Major Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.). Mayorkas survived Republicans’ first attempt on Feb. 6 but only just barely. When all […]

Elected officials in both political parties have betrayed the American people by failing to make protection of U.S. borders their first priority and then working for the security of Ukraine’s borders, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) told a mostly empty Senate chamber during a Saturday afternoon address lasting more than four hours. The unusual presentation was […]

House Republicans failed Tuesday in their effort to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas for refusing to enforce multiple U.S. immigration laws after two hours of hard-hitting floor debate, despite earlier in the day having won a key procedural vote. The motion to approve two Articles of Impeachment against Mr. Mayorkas was rejected with […]

Whether Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas becomes only the second presidential cabinet member to be impeached by the House of Representatives in American history will likely be decided Tuesday when the issue is brought to the floor of the lower chamber for a vote. Secretary of War George Belknap was impeached by the House in […]

Senate Democrats negotiating with Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) on provisions to reform U.S. immigration laws, refused to even discuss including any provisions to relieve problems in big cities like New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago connected to the flood of illegal immigrants enabled by President Joe Biden. When asked by The Epoch Times if any […]

All 18 Republican members of the House Committee on Homeland Security (HCHS) voted on Jan. 31 after more than 14 hours of often impassioned debate to refer two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the full House for a final vote as the panel’s 15 Democrats unanimously opposed the measure. Speaker […]

When the House Committee on Homeland Security (HCHS) convenes today to consider two proposed Articles of Impeachment against Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a major point of contention will be four categories of statements in which Republicans claim he lied to Congress and the American public. The “mark-up session” on the two proposed articles follows two previous […]

House Republicans on Sunday unveiled two Articles of Impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, citing him for refusing to enforce multiple immigration laws, creating new programs that specifically defy congressional intent, and lying to Congress about multiple aspects of the crisis on the U.S. border with Mexico. The articles are due for markup […]

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) wants to know who at the Department of Treasury approved searches of customers’ private accounts for transactions for “religious texts,” which books, if any, were singled out, and why such purchases were assumed to indicate an individual was involved in “domestic violent terrorism.” In a Jan. 19 letter to Secretary of […]

Lawyers for President Joe Biden’s son and members of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and the House Judiciary Committee are near an agreement on the date for Hunter Biden to sit down for a closed-door deposition. “Following an exchange of letters between the parties on January 12 and January 14, staff for the […]

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said Tuesday that he is dropping his senatorial “holds” on hundreds of promotions of U.S. military officials awaiting Senate confirmation, but he is continuing to block approval votes on the most highly ranked candidates. The senator said he will continue his holds for four-star general nominees, but all other promotions will […]

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) expects stiff court challenges to his panel’s  subpoenas to multiple witnesses yet to be interviewed in congressional Republicans’ impeachment investigation of President Joe Biden’s business dealings when he was vice president. “In simple terms, we assume at some point there will be challenges in court, and we just […]

Democrats on the Senate Rules Committee, led by Chair Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, adopted a procedural change during a Nov. 14 business meeting designed to enable senators to circumvent a hold placed nine months ago by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) on hundreds of President Joe Biden’s military and civilian employees in the Department of Defense […]