House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) discussed problematic representatives and his qualms with the Biden administration in his first interview since taking the position.
Law enforcement and media swarmed a residence associated with the suspected Maine shooter, 40-year-old Robert Card, Thursday evening in Bowdoin, Maine. Instructions could be heard over a loudspeaker as a helicopter circled overhead.
Police are still working to identify the 18 people who were killed in mass shootings in two locations in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday. The gunman remains at large.
The House passed a nearly $57 billion appropriations bill Thursday to fund the departments of Energy and Interior along with other agencies, setting up a testy funding battle with the White House ahead of a Nov. 17 government shutdown.
Senate Democrats are preparing to send a resolution to the Rules Committee that could potentially get around Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) monthslong blockade of military promotions.