Capitol Lens | Pipes of peace
From left, former Reps. Tim Roemer, D-Ind. (behind the piper), Jane Harman, D-Calif., and Charlie Dent, R-Pa., walk in procession to the House steps of the Capitol on Friday for a ceremony with the Associati...
News Search
Search results for Roll Call
Search Results
24 results found
‘Tired of politics’: By GOP convention’s end, even Trump had tapped out
DALLAS — President Donald Trump walked a tightrope this week, awkwardly balancing the political with the solemn. By the end, it all seemed too much, even for America’s ultimate political scrapper. Trum...
Members of both parties emphasize the need for bipartisanship
Former Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., stood on the House steps of the Capitol under silver clouds on Friday morning, remembering how she had gathered outside with colleagues 25 years ago, unsure of what to expe...
Battleground landscape continues to shift left as GOP candidates underform in polls
The midterm primary season is nearly complete and the general election is less than two months away, but there’s still plenty of uncertainty in the House and Senate battlegrounds. Polls show Republican c...
They pushed for a permanent solution. Twenty-five years later, they’re still waiting
Brian Baird has spent a lot of time thinking about death over the last 25 years. Not just his own, but also his former House colleagues’. Making his way through the Longworth House Office Building on 9...
Federal judge orders Missouri to use map targeting Dem House seat
A federal court in Missouri ordered the state to use a GOP-preferred congressional map Tuesday following a state court ruling that would have axed the plan for this fall. The ruling, from Judge Stephen R. Cl...
Pappas and Sununu set up marquee Senate clash in New Hampshire
Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas and Republican former Sen. John E. Sununu won their respective Senate primaries Tuesday in New Hampshire, formalizing a fall matchup for an open seat that both sides have already...
5 things to know about the Republican midterm convention
Republicans are gathering in Dallas this week for an unusual midterm convention. The two-day event, a first for the party, brings hundreds of GOP elected officials, candidates, donors and state and local p...
Lawmakers will likely have to raise the $41.1 trillion debt ceiling in the next year or so
A grim new milestone for U.S. debt and surging interest rates haven’t sparked much urgency for a new round of deficit cutting on Capitol Hill. Yet. But with federal debt topping $40 trillion for the fir...
Two-night Republican event 'puts the president himself at the center of the campaign'
President Donald Trump on Wednesday will head to a Republican midterm convention that will offer clues about the message he intends to deliver when he hits the campaign trail for a 30-day October blitz befor...
Social media debate shaken up by Meta settlement
Those who’ve fought on Capitol Hill to rein in social media platforms see last week’s settlement between Meta and state attorneys general not as a final destination, but as a roadmap to what’s possible...
NTIA opens door to new federal broadband grants
More broadband deployment funding could be headed to states to serve locations missed in earlier rounds of a $42 billion federal grant program. The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Inf...
Behind the Byline — The House’s CR week and skating out of town
CQ Roll Call budget reporter Aris Folley talks about the House’s passage of the continuing resolution this week and the chamber’s shortened schedule heading into the fall midterms. [Related: Funding exte...
Capitol Lens — Stumping in New England
CQ Roll Call senior photographer Tom Williams shares his favorite images from his recent trip to New England where he covered some of the Democratic candidates running in the region’s primaries. [Related:...
GOP consensus elusive on timing, scope of data centers bill
As anger mounts over the impacts of data centers, Republicans are wrestling with legislation that would address concerns over increased electricity and water demand that many voters associate with higher uti...
New Hampshire congressman says he’s the best choice to hold Shaheen’s seat
PLYMOUTH, N.H. — Chris Pappas has been seen as Democrats’ presumed Senate nominee in New Hampshire since he entered the race more than a year ago. And for most of that time, the four-term congressman has...
Republicans in Show-Me State vow to appeal to U.S. Supreme Court
Democrats received some good news on the redistricting front Thursday, with a pair of favorable rulings from the supreme courts of Missouri and Maryland. In Missouri, the state’s high court blocked the u...
At the Races: Labor Day reds and blues
Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. By Daniela Altimari, Mary E...
Former Rep. Charles Hatcher dies at age 87
Former Rep. Charles Hatcher, who championed Georgia’s peanut industry for over a decade until losing his seat in House in 1992, has died at the age of 87. The Georgia Democrat died Tuesday in Alexandria, V...
Second Epstein petition looks for Republican support
For Rep. Thomas Massie, time is running out in his latest effort to extract more files from the Justice Department related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He’s leading a push to sidestep House le...
Vance sidesteps endorsing Thune to continue as leader, plays coy on 2028 plans
A day after Donald Trump said flatly that someone else will be president in two-and-a-half years, Vice President JD Vance reignited the 2028 embers Thursday with another turn at the White House briefing room...
Higher Social Security payroll taxes no longer taboo for GOP
Some Republicans are slowly warming to the idea of raising payroll taxes on upper-income households to shore up Social Security. Rep. Lloyd K. Smucker of Pennsylvania, a top candidate to lead House Budget Co...
Votes at the end of the month are now unlikely
House Republicans are scrapping the last two weeks the chamber was scheduled to be in session before the midterm elections. Under the revised schedule announced Thursday, the House will return for vote...
The big-money bust may be a game changer
Kamala Harris spent well over $1 billion in her abbreviated 107-day presidential campaign two years ago, a huge sum. But on Election Day, the sitting vice president found her image was underwater. According...