Happy Tuesday, this is Congress Editor David Sivak welcoming you to Capitol Tea, a weekly column dedicated to life on Capitol Hill. It’s the dog days of summer, so we’re bringing you an all-canine edition this week. Miss our last column? Catch up here. In this edition … – Jim Justice’s bird dogs. Babydog gets […]
Republican-turned-Democrat Tracy Hunt launched a campaign on Monday seeking to oust Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) from his House seat in Pennsylvania’s 1st Congressional District. Hunt made overtures to both disillusioned Republicans and Democrats in a video announcing his campaign, framing himself as the moderate candidate who could unseat Fitzpatrick in a Republican-leaning district. The incumbent […]
The Supreme Court will rehear arguments about the Louisiana congressional map, which could have wider ramifications for other states’ maps as mid-decade redistricting is thrust into the spotlight. The high court on Friday requested briefs from the parties in Louisiana v. Callais, a case about whether the state’s “intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional […]
Voters in states across the country head to the polls Tuesday to cast ballots in local elections for candidates and on certain ballot initiatives, including whether to roll back so-called “democracy vouchers” in Seattle for publicly financed campaigns. The first-of-its-kind program came about in 2017 after Seattle voters approved a citizen-led initiative to boost election […]
The national average price for a gallon of regular gas on Tuesday is $3.163. The price marks an increase of three consecutive days at the pumps to begin August, according to AAA. Yet, despite the recent slight increase in average gas prices, for the most part, fuel costs have been steady this summer, as the […]
Texas Democrats grapple with legal, political, and personal pressure as they protest Republican efforts to rewrite the state’s congressional map before next year’s elections. Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) has threatened to remove 50 or so Democrats from the Texas House who traveled to Illinois, Massachusetts, and New York last weekend to deny a quorum for […]
President Donald Trump asked Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) to call the state legislature in for a special session where they could approve new congressional maps that would redraw district lines in favor of Republicans. That began a partisan back-and-forth, with Democratic states such as California and New York threatening to redraw their maps in favor […]
Former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris will each try to tell their side of the 2024 campaign story in forthcoming books. The question is whether they will have much interesting to say if they try to keep their stories straight. Harris will get the first word when 107 Days comes out in September. […]
Moms for Liberty, the parents’ rights organization which rose to prominence for championing more parental involvement in education, was labeled a hate group by a state committee responsible for training police officers. The Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee classified Moms for Liberty as a “hate group” in its training materials, putting them in the same […]
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) defended his state’s controversial redistricting move as necessary, given the Democrats’ own gerrymandering. Texas has become the center of a national dispute over redistricting after the latest electoral map heavily favored Republicans, stripping the Democrats of five seats. In an appearance on Fox News’s Hannity, Abbott defended the move and pointed […]
