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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., walks through statuary Hall as lawmakers gather in the House chamber to vote on the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for failures on the U.S.- Mexico border at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 6, 2024. Having failed to impeach Mayorkas the first time, House Republicans are determined to try again. But it’s not at all certain Tuesday’s scheduled do-over will produce a better tally.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

GOP-led House impeaches Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas — by one vote — over border management

February 13, 2024 at 9:59 p.m.

The U.S. House has voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Biden administration's handling of the U.S-Mexico border. In a historic rebuke of a sitting Cabinet secretary,...

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., joined at right by Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the ranking member, delivers a statement as the House Rules Committee meets to prepare the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for a floor vote, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas fails, thwarted by Republican defections

February 6, 2024 at 6:57 p.m.

In a dramatic setback, House Republicans have failed to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The vote forced Republicans to shelve a high-profile priority — for now — after a...

El senador republicano Lindsey Graham habla con los reporteros mientras llega al Capitolio en Washington, el lunes 27 de enero de 2020, durante el juicio político al presidente Donald Trump.

Crece la presión para llamar a testigos en el juicio a Trump

January 28, 2020 at 9:21 a.m.

El equipo legal de Donald Trump reforzaba el martes su amplia contraofensiva en el juicio político contra el presidente, luego de desestimar denuncias hechas en un libro próximo a publicarse...

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., takes questions from reporters on Jan. 18, 2019, on Capitol Hill.

Speaker Pelosi cancels commercial Afghanistan trip, cites Trump’s ‘leak’

August 22, 2019 at 10:19 a.m.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday canceled her plans to travel by commercial plane to visit U.S. troops in Afghanistan, saying President Donald Trump had caused a security risk by...

President Donald Trump, with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, speaks during his visit to U.S. Border Patrol McAllen Station in McAllen, Texas, on Jan. 10, 2019. At the event, the props in the center of the room included a rifle, handguns, cash and black-taped bricks of heroin and meth, examples of things Border Patrol agents have seized.

Trump threatens emergency declaration, eyes disaster funds to pay for border wall

August 22, 2019 at 10:16 a.m.

Taking the shutdown fight to the Mexican border, President Donald Trump edged closer Thursday to declaring a national emergency in an extraordinary end run around Congress to fund his long-promised...

After meeting with President Donald Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan speaks to the media as House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy looks on outside the West Wing on Dec. 20, 2018. Trump informed the two he won't sign a funding bill to avert a government shutdown without border wall money.

House GOP approves funding for Trump’s border wall as shutdown nears; Senate almost certain to reject measure

August 22, 2019 at 10:08 a.m.

President Donald Trump's demand for border wall funds hurled the federal government closer to a shutdown as House Republicans approved a package Thursday with his $5.7 billion request that is...

Paul Ryan (der.), presidente de la Cámara Baja, y Kevin McCarthy, líder de la mayoría republicana, en conferencia de prensa sobre inmigración el miércoles en el Capitolio.

Republicanos votarán sobre dos medidas de inmigración

May 15, 2019 at 11:22 a.m.

Paul Ryan (der.), presidente de la Cámara Baja, y Kevin McCarthy, líder de la mayoría republicana, en conferencia de prensa sobre inmigración el miércoles en el Capitolio. Republicanos en la...

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), right, shakes hands with House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) as GOP leaders celebrate passage of their tax-cut bill.

Congress ends year with legislative wins, but 2018 holds risks

August 22, 2019 at 2:07 a.m.

After a year of legislative fits and starts, the Republican-led Congress can claim victory on an agenda of tax cuts, judicial confirmations and a substantial regulatory rollback. It’s a list...

Amanda Bayer, left with banner, and Marisol Maqueda, right with banner, join a rally in support of so-called Dreamers outside the White House.

Congress dashes hope for end-of-year solution for immigrant ‘Dreamers,’ punts to new year

August 22, 2019 at 2:05 a.m.

A promised year-end deal to protect the young immigrants known as Dreamers from deportation collapsed Wednesday as Republicans in Congress — fresh off passage of their tax plan — prepared...

A man holds up a sign protesting the GOP tax plan on Capitol Hill.

Tax breaks for beer, unborn children are among little-known provisions in Republican bill

August 22, 2019 at 1:56 a.m.

As the House and Senate begin to reconcile their different tax bills, they will have to sort through many little-known provisions that appear designed more to achieve policy goals or...

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