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Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
In the days after the rally and ’s remarks that blamed “many sides,” lawmakers from both parties publicly reacted with unusually sharp language: Democrats demanded explicit denunciations of and called...
Republicans have repeatedly proposed a set of recurring alternatives to the Affordable Care Act that center on repeal, market‑based incentives, state control, and tax‑based support rather than the ACA...
Patty Murray is widely portrayed in these sources as a senior, influential senator whose long tenure and leadership roles have earned , particularly within the Senate Democratic caucus and among labor...
President Trump’s August 2017 remarks after the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally—where he blamed “many sides” for the violence and said not all participants were neo‑Nazis—drew widespread inter...
Roy Moore was publicly accused in 2017 by multiple women of pursuing romantic or sexual relationships with them when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s, and at least two accusers described assa...
Forbes and related reporting place Speaker Mike Johnson’s net worth around $350,000, making him “the least wealthy House Speaker this century” by those measures . Other outlets show a range—from Celeb...
Republican politicians have sometimes used partisan or demographic framing when discussing SNAP, with a body of reporting and commentary documenting specific instances of Republican leaders linking fo...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi actively rejected proposals that would let shutdowns cut pay for federal employees and instead signed legislation on January 11, 2019 guaranteeing back pay to furloughed workers; ...
House passage to end the 2013 shutdown is recorded as a 285–144 vote on October 16, 2013; the margin reflects overwhelming Democratic support and a divided Republican conference in which . Contemporar...
The 2013 shutdown deal was primarily negotiated by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell in partnership with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, with House leaders John Boehner and Paul Ryan playing...
Executive Summary Two clear, supportable claims emerge from the provided analyses: as House Speaker backed continuing resolutions in early 2018, and as Speaker supported a continuing resolution in 202...
Republican leaders have repeatedly negotiated with Democrats to end government shutdowns, often accepting , votes on unrelated policy priorities, or scaled-back demands to reopen the government quickl...
President Donald Trump has prompted sharp disagreement over whether he should be labeled a ; critics point to comments and reported remarks that appear to sympathize with white-nationalist actors, whi...