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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.

Congress

On Senate floor, Mayorkas impeachment sparks procedural clash

Little room for debate on a point-of-order strategy from Democrats

By Justin Papp
Posted April 17, 2024 at 5:58pm, Updated at 6:49pm

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.

Congress

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.

Congress

Senate readies for Mayorkas impeachment showdown

By Michael Macagnone
Posted April 16, 2024 at 5:46pm
Supporters of January 6 defendants, including Micki Witthoeft, the mother of Ashli Babbitt, who was killed during the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, gather Tuesday outside of the Supreme Court.

Policy

Supreme Court questions use of statute against Jan. 6 defendants

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 16, 2024 at 3:25pm
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
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
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
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
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
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