On this day in history, July 30, 1956, the 84th Congress passed a joint resolution declaring “IN GOD WE TRUST” to be the national motto of the United States, according to History.com. Passing in both the House and the Senate unanimously and without debate, the resolution replaced “E pluribus unum,” which had existed before as...
New texts between members of Beaver County emergency services in Pennsylvania show just how understaffed they were ahead of a rally for former President Trump earlier this month when a would-be assassin shot him and others, killing a spectator. In a discussion between team leaders at the emergency services, who were requested to assist with...
Politics and elections are about optics. And while Democrats may have shifted some of their optics of late by propelling Vice President Harris to the perch of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, the GOP also bolstered some of its optics of late, too. It’s no secret that House Republicans struggle to govern. They historically wrestle in...
FIRST ON FOX: Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, hit a fundraising milestone in the last quarter, just months ahead of the Senate Republican leader election, in which he’s hoping to fend off challengers to succeed reigning top fundraiser and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. He recently closed his highest-raising quarter in history with his joint fundraising...
A prominent conservative activist and philanthropist is pushing back against President Biden’s newly unveiled plan to make drastic changes to the Supreme Court and impose ethics rules, saying that if the president “were truly serious” about such transformations he’d start with Congress – “where the real corruption is.” On Monday, Biden and Vice President Kamala...
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., announced Monday the representatives named to a bipartisan panel that will investigate the assassination attempt against former President Trump earlier this month. “We have the utmost confidence in this bipartisan group of steady, highly qualified, and capable Members of Congress to move quickly to...
After House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., named their nominees to the Trump assassination attempt incident task force, the panel’s members expressed a bipartisan willingness to get to the bottom of how the historic tragedy was able to happen in the first place. Rep. Mike Kelly, the Pennsylvania Republican whose...
President Biden’s three-part proposal to transform the Supreme Court, which includes a constitutional amendment, is likely doomed from the start as it would need significant support in the nearly evenly divided Congress and across state legislatures. On Monday morning, Biden revealed a plan to overhaul the Supreme Court amid several recent rulings handed down by...
There is a constitutional process of succession that would take effect if President Biden were to step down from his role as commander in chief. Speculation over whether Biden can finish the remainder of his current term heightened after he suddenly withdrew from the 2024 presidential race. If the president did decide to resign before...
If former President Donald Trump returns to the White House and the GOP regains control of the Senate and retains control of the House, the Republican congressional leadership will have the opportunity to use the “reconciliation process” to enact urgently needed legislation.”There’s not a moment to lose!” was a saying of the Royal Navy in...
