House Republicans are growing frustrated by small numbers of members of their party joining with Democrats on discharge petitions to force votes, circumventing the wishes of GOP leaders — and weakening their control over the House floor. Once an exceedingly rare form of rebellion, discharge petitions have been used to force votes a record number…

The House on Tuesday passed the Faster Labor Contracts Act, a bill that seeks to impose shorter timelines for first-contract negotiations for new unions, in a major win for labor groups and populists and blow to Republican leadership. The bill came up for a vote over the objections of House Republican leadership after seven moderate…

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is meeting with President Trump on Tuesday morning as Democratic outrage about Trump tapping Bill Pulte as the acting director of national intelligence endangers reauthorization of the nation’s foreign spy powers set to expire at the end of the week. On the way out of the U.S. Capitol for the meeting, Johnson…

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The looming deadline to renew the nation’s warrantless spy powers is clashing with a pressure campaign on the White House to yank the appointment of Bill Pulte, a controversial figure tapped to lead the intelligence community.  A growing number of Democrats have said they will not vote to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence…

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) asserted that the California primary election “stinks to high heaven,” echoing gripes from President Trump and other Republicans about the integrity of the state’s election system.  “They are counting votes weeks after the election,” Johnson said in the Capitol on Monday. “I’m not saying it’s rigged. I’m saying it stinks to…