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Lois Frankel joins effort to restrict use of ‘slush fund’ to compensate victims of ‘lawfare’

Plans to direct $1.8B from an IRS settlement to victims of 'weaponization' of the Justice Department have angered members of Congress. The post Lois Frankel joins effort to restric...

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, a Florida Democrat, Resigns From Congress

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick stands accused of stealing $5 million in federal funds. She announced she would step down minutes before the House Ethics Committee was to vote on a reco...

Rep. Ilhan Omar endorses Peggy Flanagan for U.S. Senate

Omar is the second member of Minnesota’s Democratic congressional delegation to break for Lt. Gov. Flanagan, who’s running against Democrat Rep. Angie Craig.

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick Resigns

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) has resigned, Punchbowl News reports. Cherfilus-McCormick faced an Ethics Committee hearing today after being found guilty by the panel of 25...

Ilhan Omar Endorses Peggy Flanagan In Minnesota Senate Race

The Minneapolis Democrat, whose district was targeted by Trump’s ICE surge, hailed Flanagan for having “the courage to stand up to Donald Trump.”

ACLU-NJ and Partners File Brief in Support of Rep. LaMonica McIver 

The ACLU of New Jersey, along with the National Women’s Law Center and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, today filed an amicus brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third...

Watch: Rep. Boebert Planning Motion to Expel Ilhan Omar from Congress Over Alleged Incestuous Marriage - 'That One's Min...

Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Republican from Colorado, knows that Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Oman must go. Indeed, between the gargantuan Somali fraud scandal and the recent rape ac...

Baldwin, other senators join calls to release Salah Sarsour from immigration detention

Democratic U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin, Bernie Sanders, and Chris Van Hollen have sent a joint letter to the secretary of  the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), condemning the...

Minnesota Legislator Yanks Endorsement For Angie Craig Over Laken Riley Act Vote

Democratic state Rep. Dan Wolgamott is now backing Craig’s primary opponent in the U.S. Senate race, Peggy Flanagan.

U.S. Rep. Steil: Racine Vietnam War veteran Sister Linda McClenahan awarded Veteran of the Year

RACINE, WI – Congressman Bryan Steil (WI-01) announced Racine veteran Sister Linda “Sister Sarge” McClenahan as the recipient of the First Congressional District’s 2025 Veteran of ...

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick Says She's Resigning From Congress

The Florida Democrat faced an expulsion vote in the House. 

Another One Gone: Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick Resigns, Skirting an Expulsion Vote on Ethics Violations

Kat Cammack to co-lead bipartisan effort to root out sexual misconduct in Congress

The Gainesville Republican will work with Teresa Leger Fernández on the effort, which follows 2 high-profile resignations over inappropriate affairs. The post Kat Cammack to co-lea...

Democrat Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick Resigns 

State of the Union: She was indicted in November 2025 for stealing $5 million from taxpayers. The post Democrat Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick Resigns  appeared first on The Ameri...

U.S. Rep. Pocan: Pocan, Langworthy lead 34 members with letter to Sec. Kennedy on strengthening NIH policy on animal tes...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representatives Mark Pocan (WI-02) and Nick Langworthy (NY-23) lead a letter with 34 bipartisan House members to Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., ur...

Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida resigns amid ethics investigation

WASHINGTON — Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is resigning from Congress rather than be formally disciplined by the House as part of an ethics investigation into her use of campaign...

One Congresswoman’s Scary Yearlong Fight for Justice After Standing Up to ICE

It’s been just over a year since Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), a sitting member of Congress, showed up to Delaney Hall, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility...

Warren, Duckworth, Schumer Lead Senators in Pressing Head of Employment Protections Commission on Attacks on Workers Und...

Representative Yassamin Ansari Fights Back Against Smears on Her, Her Family, and Her Staff

Arizona House Congress member Yassamin Ansari (CD3), issued a strong statement against Trumpist allies who are launching attacks on her, her family, and her staff after she filed a...

Will the Real Rep. Doris Matsui, California Democrat, Please Stand Up?

The Golden State lawmaker took positions in a March 27, 2026 letter to NTIA Administrator Arielle Roth that contradicted her positions in a Nov. 25, 2025 letter to Roth on BEAD pro...

Leading House Democrats call for immediate U.S. action against Israeli settler violence, West Bank annexation

Rep. Rosa DeLauro and Rep. Sean Casten urged the restoration of Biden-era sanctions on extremist Israeli settlers and a ban on Israeli West Bank residents from participating in the...

Representatives McIver, Menendez, Watson Coleman Mark One Year Since ICE Chaos at Delaney Hall

Today, Representatives LaMonica McIver (NJ-10), Rob Menendez (NJ-08), and Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) released a video marking one year since they toured the Delaney Hall detenti...

Peggy Flanagan Is Running for the Senate to “Avenge Minnesota”

Joan Walsh The lieutenant governor of the state is ramping up her Democratic Senate primary campaign as her state battles Trump’s brutal assault. The post Peggy Flanagan Is Ru...

Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigns from Congress after Ethics probe

Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has resigned from Congress following a House Ethics investigation that found she committed 25 different violations.