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Rep. Earl Blumenauer, seen here in 2019, is known for wearing brightly colored bike pins on his lapel.

Heard on the Hill

Earl Blumenauer takes his last ride through Congress

Oregon Democrat will pass the Bike Caucus baton

By Justin Papp
Posted April 18, 2024 at 6:15am

House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., arrives for a Defense Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in the Rayburn building on Wednesday.

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Cole eyes axing HUD earmarks for nonprofit organizations

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 18, 2024 at 6:00am
Senate Intelligence Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., speaks to reporters as he leaves a TikTok briefing in the Capitol on March 20.

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House bill gives up to a year to sell TikTok; eyes Russian assets

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted April 17, 2024 at 10:01pm
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas impeachment managers Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., left, and Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., return to the House side Wednesday after the end of the Mayorkas impeachment in the Senate, as Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., conducts a TV news interview.

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On Senate floor, Mayorkas impeachment sparks procedural clash

By Justin Papp
Posted April 17, 2024 at 5:58pm, Updated at 6:49pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., arrives for an interview with CNN in the Will Rogers corridor in the Capitol on Wednesday.

Foreign aid supplemental unveiled in House; Biden supports

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted April 17, 2024 at 11:58am, Updated at 6:39pm
Visitors in the Hart Senate Office Building go about their business as floor action Wednesday on the impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas airs on television in the background.

Senate dispenses with Mayorkas impeachment without a trial

By Michael Macagnone
Posted April 17, 2024 at 5:00pm
House impeachment managers, led by Reps. Mark E. Green, R-Tenn., and Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., walk through the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday to the Senate to deliver articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Senate readies for Mayorkas impeachment showdown

By Michael Macagnone
Posted April 16, 2024 at 5:46pm
Nebraska Republican Rep. Don Bacon, the Quality of Life Panel’s chairman, leaves a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Panel pitches NDAA plan to improve troops’ quality of life

By John M. Donnelly
Posted April 16, 2024 at 5:34pm
From left, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., participate in a news conference following a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Lifeline for foreign aid package, speaker’s job up to Democrats

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted April 16, 2024 at 12:29pm
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., arrives for a vote in the Capitol.

Cotton among GOP lawmakers who back defendants in Jan. 6 case

By Michael Macagnone
Posted April 15, 2024 at 9:20am, Updated at 9:20pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is seen in the Capitol before the House voted to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Friday.

Piecemeal supplemental spending plan emerges in House

By Caitlin Reilly and David Lerman
Posted April 15, 2024 at 9:08pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., attend a photo op with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida last week.

Senate leaders seek quick action on key surveillance authority

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 15, 2024 at 7:27pm
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a House Appropriations Committee hearing Wednesday.

House plans to send Mayorkas impeachment articles to Senate on Tuesday

By Michael Macagnone
Posted April 12, 2024 at 3:48pm, Updated April 15, 2024 at 5:32pm
Then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., takes the gavel after securing the speakership on the 15th ballot in January 2023.

McCarthy gavel investigation ends without a bang

By Justin Papp
Posted April 15, 2024 at 5:02pm
Cole arrives for the House Rules Committee hearing on the impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden in the Capitol on Dec. 12, 2023.

Rep. Tom Cole seeks to limit earmark-driven political headaches

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 15, 2024 at 3:53pm
Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., leaves a House Republican Conference meeting on Oct. 24, 2023.

Harris sticks with Agriculture spending, Amodei likely to head DHS panel

By Aidan Quigley and Caitlin Reilly
Posted April 12, 2024 at 2:53pm
House Intelligence Chairman Michael R. Turner, R-Ohio, backed the version of a reauthorization bill for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

House approves surveillance authority reauthorization bill

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 12, 2024 at 2:12pm
FBI Director Christopher Wray prepares to testify Thursday during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing.

House looks to try again on surveillance authority reauthorization

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 11, 2024 at 6:55pm, Updated at 8:42pm
Reps. David Joyce, R-Ohio, left, and Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, conduct a House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee budget hearing on Wednesday with DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

New House Appropriations cardinals slate starts to take shape

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 11, 2024 at 5:35pm, Updated at 6:51pm
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida addresses a joint meeting of Congress as Speaker Mike Johnson and Vice President Kamala Harris look on.

Kishida tells Congress Japan will help US carry the load abroad

By Rachel Oswald
Posted April 11, 2024 at 2:16pm
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on his agency's fiscal 2025 budget request on Wednesday.

Mayorkas soldiers on through budget hearings, despite impeachment

By David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted April 10, 2024 at 6:41pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., right, wraps up the House GOP news conference Wednesday that touched on reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. On the left are Rep. Blake D. Moore, R-Utah, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La.

House trips up again in spy authority reauthorization push

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 10, 2024 at 3:18pm
President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meet in the Oval Office Wednesday as Washington rolls out the red carpet for the Japanese leader.

Japan’s Kishida to address Congress as its military role expands

By Rachel Oswald
Posted April 10, 2024 at 12:35pm
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., has become the new chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. He will give up his chairmanship of the Transportation-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee and the House Rules Committee.

Cole secures Appropriations gavel ahead of fraught budget cycle

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 10, 2024 at 9:54am
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on Feb. 6.

Legal opinion gives Treasury leeway ahead of debt limit fight

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted April 10, 2024 at 6:30am, Updated at 8:38am
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., nominates Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, for speaker on Oct. 18, 2023. Jordan's unsuccessful bid led to Speaker Mike Johnson's election the following week.

Cole gets Steering Committee nod for House Appropriations gavel

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 9, 2024 at 8:16pm, Updated at 8:57pm
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., has pushed for Energy Department funding to clean up a decommissioned nuclear site in her state.

Murray keeps Energy-Water panel, gives up Military Construction-VA

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 9, 2024 at 7:44pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Tuesday said Democrats will try to resolve the impeachment articles against Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas “as quickly as possible.”

House delays sending Mayorkas impeachment to Senate

By Michael Macagnone
Posted April 9, 2024 at 5:49pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., praised the latest version of a bill to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

House again tees up reauthorization of powerful spy authority

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 9, 2024 at 2:27pm, Updated at 4:03pm
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks to the media on the House steps of the Capitol after filing her motion to vacate Speaker Mike Johnson on March 22.

Greene lays out case to oust speaker in letter to colleagues

By John M. Donnelly
Posted April 9, 2024 at 3:45pm
Rep. Robert B. Aderholt, R-Ala., had been coy about his plans since Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, announced she was stepping down.

Aderholt won’t challenge Cole for top Appropriations slot

By Aidan Quigley
Posted April 9, 2024 at 2:26pm
Leaders of three powerful minority caucuses in Congress want to see a revival of the House’s diversity office. From left, Congressional Black Caucus Chair Steven Horsford, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Nanette Barragán and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Chair Judy Chu arrive for a news conference at a Democratic retreat in Leesburg, Va., on Feb. 8.

Tri-Caucus leaders call for restoration of House diversity office

By Justin Papp
Posted April 9, 2024 at 12:16pm
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, has led an effort to fight back against any plan from Democrats to quickly dispatch impeachment articles this week.

Senate Republicans preview fight over Mayorkas impeachment

By Michael Macagnone
Posted April 9, 2024 at 12:04pm
Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown raised $12 million in the first three months of this year for his reelection race in Ohio. That’s close to the $12.9 million Republican Richard Burr spent on his entire 2004 campaign to win a competitive open seat in North Carolina.

Senate fundraising dwarfs past Senate and presidential races

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted April 9, 2024 at 10:30am