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Note: For those who believe the House has not worked on real issues, here's info on All House Votes, including votes taken during breaks in the impeachment hearings.
https://projects.propublica.org/represent/votes/116/all/house
Undated: Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives ...
Live and on-demand video access to the Floor proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives.
http://houselive.gov/
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January 6: The House and Senate convened for a joint session of Congress to verify certificates and count electoral college votes from each state for president and vice president of the United States. Donald Trump was officially certified as the next president with 304 electoral votes, followed by Hillary Clinton with 227.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?421237-1/joint-session-congress-certifies-donald-trump-us-president
February 28: Despite promises for transparency, Republicans toed the party line last night and once again blocked the release of Donald Trump's tax returns.
The U.S. House of Representatives had a chance to force President Donald Trump to release his tax returns, but House Republicans ... voted unanimously to block the measure.
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2017/02/28/florida-republicans-vote-to-block-trumps-tax-returns-from-being-released
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March 1: US House panel to probe alleged Trump-Russia links
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/03/house-panel-probe-alleged-trump-russia-links-170302021333384.html
April 4: The Cambridge [Massachusetts] City Council voted Monday night to call upon the US House of Representatives to approve an investigation into whether sufficient grounds exist to impeach President Trump
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/04/03/cambridge-council-approves-proposal-urge-house-look-possible-trump-impeachment/8mEoEok04B7pMualRfGezN/story.html
May 4: US House passes bill to dismantle Affordable Care Act in major victory for Donald Trump
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-05/us-house-passes-healthcare-bill-in-major-trump-victory/8499138
May 4: Trump's Health Care Bill Considers Sexual Assault and C-Sections to be Pre-Existing Conditions ...
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June 28: A House of Representatives spending panel wants to spare the National Science Foundation (NSF) from most of the 11% cut that was proposed by President Donald Trump for its 2018 budget. But it would do so in part by eliminating funding for three mid-sized research vessels that Congress last year told NSF to start building.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/trump-cuts-nsf-mostly-rejected-house-panel-it-nixes-new-ships
June 29: House Passes 'Kate's Law' And Bill Cracking Down on Sanctuary Cities
The House of Representatives on Thursday passed two immigration bills that help President Donald Trump in his fight against illegal immigration and sanctuary cities.
The bills — Kate’s Law and the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act — raise the penalties for undocumented immigrants who re-enter the United States after being deported and revoke federal grants from cities that do not comply with federal immigration enforcement.
http://time.com/4840666/immigration-house-kates-law-sanctuary-cities-trump/
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July 12: Summary: H.Res.438 — 115th Congress (2017-2018)
Introduced in House (07/12/2017)
Impeaches President Donald John Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Sets forth an article of impeachment stating that President Trump prevented, obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice during a federal investigation.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-resolution/438
July 14: 60% Of House Democrats Vote For A Defense Budget Even Bigger Than Trump's
https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2017/07/14/most-house-democrats-just-voted-for-a-defense-budget-far-bigger-than-trumps/#7bbabe846ea0
July 25: US House of Representatives approves new sanctions against Russia
https://www.rt.com/usa/397474-house-representatives-sanctions-russia/
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July 25: Bills may not be reaching Trump’s desk, but the House is sending plenty to the Senate.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449780/houses-accomplishments-its-done-more-you-think-year
July 27: House of Representatives boosts military spending, gives Trump border wall money
https://www.metro.us/news/reuters/house-representatives-boosts-military-spending-gives-trump-border-wall-money
August 18: 3 representatives want to officially censure Trump after Charlottesville
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/representatives-officially-censure-trump-charlottesville/story?id=49281724
October 16: Republicans 'worried losing House of Representatives could spell impeachment for Trump' ... One Democratic congressman has already introduced articles of impeachment
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/republican-concern-lose-house-of-representatives-donald-trump-impeachment-a8004131.html
November 7: Who are President Trump’s Allies in the House of Representatives?
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/for.2017.15.issue-3/for-2017-0029/for-2017-0029.xml
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November 15: Five Democrats from the United States House of Representatives have introduced articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.
https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/house-democrats-introduce-impeachment-articles-against-trump/
November 16: The United States House of Representatives has passed President Donald Trump's flagship tax reform bill. The legislation could be Trump's first major victory following a raft of previous headline-grabbing failures.
http://www.dw.com/en/us-house-passes-trump-tax-reform/a-41415528
November 16: Statement from Mayor de Blasio on the House of Representatives Passing Trump's Tax Scam
http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/732-17/statement-mayor-de-blasio-the-house-representatives-passing-trump-s-tax-scam
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November 19: Trump impeachment: House must act now to keep our Republic
Six Democrats have introduced articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, a long-shot effort that stands little chance in the Republican-led House.
Several of President Trump’s actions since taking office meet this high standard. They were not simply inappropriate or wrong; they threaten to undermine our fundamental constitutional structure, our national security and our democracy. In light of this, we have introduced five articles of impeachment against Trump and called for immediate impeachment hearings.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/11/19/trump-impeachment-inquiry-house-must-act-now-cohen-guttierez-green-fudge-espaillat-column/878920001/
December 1: House Of Representatives Pass Bill To Remove “Negro” Label From Federal Regulations, Trump Opposes Bill
http://thesource.com/2017/12/01/house-representatives-pass-bill-remove-negro-label-federal-regulations-trump-opposes-bill/
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December 6: Nearly 60 Democrats Just Voted To Move Toward Impeaching President Donald Trump
The House voted to kill Rep. Al Green's motion to begin impeachment proceedings. Fifty-eight Democrats voted to move forward, despite Democratic leadership saying "now is not the time" to try to remove Trump from office.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/sarahmimms/democratic-congressman-says-he-will-force-a-vote-on?utm_term=.sxdv9exly#.gvDwWeLb7
December 6: House rejects Trump impeachment resolution after Dem Rep. Al Green forces vote
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/06/us-rep-al-green-plans-trump-impeachment-resolution.html
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Undated: Tracking Congress In The Age Of Trump ... An updating tally of how often every member of the House and the Senate votes with or against the president.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/
Undated: Russia: Trump & His Team’s Ties
Despite Russia’s harmful national interests against the U.S., and its human rights violations around the world, President Trump and his team are directly and indirectly tied to Russia.
https://swalwell.house.gov/issues/russia-trump-his-administration-s-ties
January 17: Trump Impeachment Vote Will Be Brought 'Again And Again And Again,' House Democrat Says
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-impeachment-vote-will-be-brought-again-and-again-and-again-house-784102
January 19: House Votes to Table Trump Impeachment ...
66 Democrats opposed tabling
https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/house-votes-to-table-impeachment
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January 31:
January 31: More than 30 House Republicans have said they won’t run again, giving Democrats reason for optimism about November’s elections.
Besides Gowdy and Hensarling, chairmen leaving are: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte of Virginia; House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen of New Jersey; House Administration Committee Chairman Gregg Harper of Mississippi; House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce of California; House Transportation Committee Chairman Bill Shuster of Pennsylvania; and House Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith of Texas. Rep. Diane Black of Tennessee has already stepped down as budget chairwoman and is leaving Congress to run for governor.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/here-are-all-the-house-republican-committee-chairmen-who-are-retiring-2018-01-31
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January 31: House Republicans are retiring in droves. What's pushing them out?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/31/house-republicans-retiring-droves-amid-gridlock-gloomy-election-forecast-and-scandal/1084809001/
January 31: FBI chief has 'grave concerns,' clashes with Trump over GOP memo
FBI Director Christopher Wray sent a striking signal to the White House Wednesday, issuing a rare public warning that a controversial Republican memo about the FBI's surveillance practices omits key information that could impact its veracity.
The move sets up an ugly clash with the President who wants it released.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/31/politics/nunes-memo-law-enforcement/index.html
February 5: Trump accuser running for state representative
The woman who in 2016 accused President Donald Trump of kissing her is running for the Ohio House of Representatives 88th District in hopes to bring a fresh voice to politics.
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Rachel Crooks, a Green Springs woman now living in Tiffin, will challenge Bill Reineke for the 88th district that covers Sandusky County and most of Seneca County in the November general election.
http://www.thenews-messenger.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/02/05/trump-accuser-running-state-representative/307738002/
February 13: President Trump and Republicans in the House of Representatives are looking to cut social safety net programs for the poor, including Medicaid and food stamps. The plan could involve work requirements for food stamps and funding cuts.
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2018/02/13/welfare-cuts-gop
February 14: Gowdy: Leaving Congress To Work Somewhere ‘Where Facts Matter’
Retiring GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy (S.C.) said Wednesday that part of the reason he is leaving Congress is that he likes “jobs where facts matter.”
Gowdy, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, announced last month that he would not seek reelection and would return to a career in the justice system.
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“I miss my old job,” Gowdy told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota. “I miss the justice system. I like jobs where facts matter, I like jobs where fairness matters. I like jobs, frankly, where the process matters. … I’m more at peace in jobs that reward fairness and that are fact-centric than I am in Congress.”
http://spectrumreport.com/gowdy-leaving-congress-to-work-somewhere-where-facts-matter/
February 26: Hope Hicks expected before House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday
Hicks, a trusted Trump aide for years, was one of then-candidate Trump's first hires as he put together an improbable run for the White House. During the campaign, she was often by Trump's side and attended nearly every rally, while she was in frequent communication with other senior officials as they coordinated their tactics to win the White House.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/26/politics/hope-hicks-house-intelligence-committee/index.html
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April 17: Pennsylvania GOP Rep. Charlie Dent announced Tuesday he is resigning in the "coming weeks," a decision that came after he first said he'd be retiring at the end of his term in Congress.
The moderate Republican tweeted the decision came after discussions with his family and "careful reflection."
Already, 43 House Republicans have announced this cycle they are retiring ...
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/17/politics/charlie-dent-resigning-congress-house/
May 16: Senate committee agrees with intelligence community assessment of election meddling, breaking with GOP House investigation
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/politics/senate-committee-agrees-intelligence-community-election-meddling/index.html
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May 18: The House of Representatives failed to pass a massive farm bill Friday as Republicans were unable to shore up support from their conservative members amid an ongoing party-wide fight on immigration, rebuking GOP House leaders' who had predicted it would pass just minutes before.
The conservative-driven bill -- which included the work requirements that Ryan has coveted and pushed for -- was, at least for now, dead, sunk not because of its actual content, but because of immigration, an issue that has roiled the Republican Party for years.
[Republicans] didn't have Democrats backing the legislation. Democrats rejected the farm bill out of opposition to those work requirements Ryan sought in the food stamps program, formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/18/politics/farm-bill-house-agriculture-food-stamps-snap/index.html
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August 30: Advisers worried what Dem-controlled House means for Trump
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/30/politics/trump-democrats/index.html
September 7: In the battle for control of Congress, President Donald Trump's weapon of choice is fear.
At a rally for Republican Senate nominee Matt Rosendale in Billings, Montana, on Thursday night, the president warned his faithful that Democrats would raise their taxes, take their guns, block his wall, abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, open U.S. borders, end Social Security and cut Medicare.
He's also warned supporters this summer that the outcome in November could spell trouble for freedom of speech and religion and the First Amendment — and that if the GOP loses, violence could follow.
The overwhelming majority of the claims are patently false, but with two months to go — and analysts in both parties convinced that there’s a nonremote chance Republicans could lose at least the House — Trump is in desperation mode.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/fear-loathing-trump-campaign-trail-n907521
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September 13: The House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a $146 billion spending bill to fund the Energy Department, veterans' programs and the legislative branch as part of a bid to avoid a government shutdown Oct. 1.
The White House has indicated that Trump will sign the so-called "minibus" package, which accounts for three of the 12 annual spending bills that fund the government and is the first of three such measures Congress has aimed to approve this month.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-passes-146b-minibus-bill-sends-to-trump-for-approval
October 1: What the House of Representatives means in US politics - and how it could change at the midterms https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/house-representatives-means-us-politics-could-change-midterms/
October 15: President Donald Trump has not publicly released his tax returns and has no plans on ever doing so. But whether he wants to might not matter at all if Democrats take back the majority in the House of Representatives.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-democrats-trump-tax-returns-public-if-retake-house-2018-10
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November 21: Trump names hand-picked panel to supervise, investigate intelligence community
With Republicans poised to lose control of investigatory panels in the House of Representatives, President Trump is resurrecting a potentially powerful board capable of intimately reviewing intelligence agency conduct on his direct orders.
The White House announced five appointments to the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board on Tuesday evening, after selecting a chairman and vice chairwoman earlier this year.
The dormant board created by former President Dwight Eisenhower has no formal powers, but derives significant authority directly from the president, operating as his surrogate to smooth over agency rivalries, investigate misconduct, and evaluate intelligence collection policies.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/trump-names-hand-picked-panel-to-supervise-investigate-intelligence-community
November 27: Where The Suburbs Moved Left — And How The Shift Swung Elections
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/27/668726284/where-the-suburbs-moved-left-and-how-it-swung-elections
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November 28: Democrats Pick Nancy Pelosi As House Speaker, Despite Earlier Internal Opposition
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/28/671493966/democrats-pick-nancy-pelosi-as-house-speaker-despite-earlier-internal-opposition
November 30: House Democrats unveiled details of their first bill in the new Congress on Friday — a sweeping anti-corruption bill aimed at stamping out the influence of money in politics and expanding voting rights.
This is House Resolution 1 — the first thing House Democrats will tackle after the speaker’s vote in early January. To be clear, this legislation has little-to-no chance of passing the Republican-controlled Senate or being signed by President Donald Trump.
But by making anti-corruption their No. 1 priority, House Democrats are throwing down the gauntlet for Republicans.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/30/18118158/house-democrats-anti-corruption-bill-hr-1-pelosi
December 4: House GOP Campaign Committee Says It Was Hacked During 2018 Campaign
National Republican Campaign Committee has launched internal investigation into ‘cyber intrusion’ and notified the FBI
https://www.wsj.com/articles/house-gop-campaign-committee-says-it-was-victim-of-cyber-intrusion-during-2018-campaign-1543945905
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December 6: Latest House results confirm 2018 wasn't a blue wave. It was a blue tsunami.
The final votes are being counted from the 2018 election. They confirm that the Democrats crushed Republicans.
Let's start in the seat count. Republican Rep. David Valadao of California's 21st District conceded on Thursday to Democrat T.J. Cox.
Cox's victory combined with other election results means that Democrats have picked up a net gain of 40 seats.
As has oft been repeated, this is the largest Democratic House gain since 1974. It's a larger gain than Democrats had in the wave elections of both 1982 and 2006.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/06/politics/latest-house-vote-blue-wave/index.html
December 6: Election fraud accusations rock a House election in North Carolina that drags on a month after midterms
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The state's Board of Elections declined to certify GOP pastor Mark Harris' unofficial victory over Democratic Marine veteran Dan McCready in North Carolina's 9th District last week as absentee ballot irregularities emerged. Officials in the state now have to assess whether misconduct occurred, as calls grow to refuse to seat Harris in January or even hold a new election.
The votes in question largely stem from Bladen County, where Harris won 61 percent of the mail-in vote despite Republicans requesting only 19 percent of absentee ballots in the county, according to The Washington Post. Bladen had an absentee ballot request rate of 7.5 percent of registered voters, compared with about 3 percent in most counties, The New York Times reported.
The outlet also cites affidavits in which voters claim a person picked up their absentee ballots. In one case, a voter said her ballot was uncompleted when it was taken.
It is unclear how closely linked Dowless is to the Harris campaign, or exactly what effect his alleged conduct had on the race. CNBC could not immediately reach Dowless through the Bladen Soil and Water Conservation. The Charlotte Observer reported that Dowless had denied any wrongdoing.
December 6: Nancy Pelosi’s opponents want term limits for House committee chairs. She might be open to it.
Why term limits could become the next big fight within the House Democratic caucus.
Pelosi said she’s open to a conversation about term limits for committee chairs, a rule House Republicans have but Democrats do not.
But Pelosi was clear in her press conference: The will of the Democratic caucus will decide the issue.
https://www.vox.com/2018/12/6/18128803/nancy-pelosi-term-limits-for-house-committee-chairs
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December 7: ‘Just deal,’ Muslim lawmaker Ilhan Omar says to pastor who complained about hijabs on House floor
The Pew Research Center estimates that there were 3.45 million Muslim Americans living in the United States in 2017, accounting for about 1.1 percent of the overall population. By 2040, the center projects that Muslims will replace Jews as the country’s second-largest religious group after Christians.
Minnesota’s 5th District, where Omar won in November, is the most diverse in the state. Thirty-six percent of the residents there are people of color, and the district has the sixth-highest percentage of millennial voters of all 435 House districts, according to reporting from MPR News. With her victory there last month, Omar claimed multiple “first” titles: the first woman of color to represent Minnesota in Congress; and the first Muslim refugee, first Somali American and first hijab-wearing Muslim woman to be elected to Congress.
“When people were selling the politics of fear and division and destruction, we were talking about hope,” she said during her victory speech. “We were talking about the politics of joy.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2018/12/07/just-deal-muslim-lawmaker-ilhan-omar-says-pastor-who-complained-about-hijabs-house-floor/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a6435243b12e
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December 17: At the turn of the 18th century, a newly elected president of the United States—only the second in the nation’s then-brief history—cautioned the American people about “the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” In particular, John Adams pointed to threats from abroad, warning that if a changed election outcome “can be obtained by foreign nations by flattery or menaces, by fraud or violence, by terror, intrigue, or venality, the Government may not be the choice of the American people, but of foreign nations. It may be foreign nations who govern us, and not we, the people, who govern ourselves.” Speaking before a joint session of Congress, he thus pleaded with the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives to “[preserve] our Constitution from its natural enemies,” including “the profligacy of corruption, and the pestilence of foreign influence, which is the angel of destruction to elective governments.”1
The threat of foreign influence over our elections did not wane in the intervening 220 years: Today, the United States has a president whose election was aided by the fraud and intrigue of a foreign nation. Americans who watched how President Donald Trump, in the words of the late Sen. John McCain, “abased himself … abjectly before a tyrant” in Helsinki, cannot be faulted for wondering whether John Adams’s long-ago warning has become a reality.2
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2018/12/17/464235/following-the-money/
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December 22: U.S. government partially shuts down as Congress resists funding Trump’s border wall
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/government-shutdown-draws-closer-as-lawmakers-wrangle-over-border-funding-2018-12-21
December 27: A partial government shutdown continued toward the end of its sixth day Thursday amid no signs that Congress and the White House are any closer to ending their standoff.
The House ... returned to work Thursday but was in a session lasting less than a minute before adjourning until Monday at 10 a.m. Like the Senate, the House did not hold any votes. The office of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., sent a statement advising lawmakers that no votes were expected in the House this week.
President Donald Trump shows no sign of backing down from his demand for funding for a wall along the nation’s southern border.
“Whatever it takes,” Trump said Wednesday when asked how long the shutdown could last.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/27/government-shutdown-no-end-sight-standoff-enters-sixth-day/2415605002/
December 27: US government shutdown over border wall will last into 2019
Both houses adjourn without acting to end closure, as Democrats prepare to assume control of Congress next week
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/27/us-government-shutdown-continue-2019-trump
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January 13: Three newly empowered Democratic House committee chairmen, alarmed by statements over the weekend by President Trump about his former lawyer’s planned testimony before Congress, cautioned on Sunday that any effort to discourage or influence a witness’s testimony could be construed as a crime.
The warning, a stark and unusual message from some of Congress’s most influential Democrats, underscores the increasing legal and political peril facing Mr. Trump. Democrats are beginning their own investigations of him as the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, appears to move toward a conclusion in his investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia and potential obstruction of justice by Mr. Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/13/us/politics/trump-cohen-testimony.html
May 24: The House on Friday failed to pass the Senate-passed $19 billion bill providing disaster aid funding to parts of the United States hit by hurricanes, flooding, earthquakes and wildfires after a Republican lawmaker objected.
The House tried to pass the measure during a pro forma session by unanimous consent, since most lawmakers had left for a weeklong Memorial Day recess the day before. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, objected, saying the bill didn't address the humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border and that it was not paid for.
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"Our nation is strong enough, and compassionate enough, to have a responsive and fiscally responsive approach to help people who are hurting in the wake of natural disasters," he said.
It was unclear what would happen next. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said in a statement that he would be "discussing a path forward with Members on both sides of the aisle, and we will take action as early as next week when the House meets again during pro forma."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-fails-pass-19-billion-disaster-relief-bill-after-gop-n1009741
May 24: Fact-checking Trump, Sanders' claims that House Dems getting nothing done
While defending President Donald Trump's decision to stop work on infrastructure legislation until House investigations into his administration stop, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Thursday morning argued on CNN that House Democrats have not accomplished anything legislatively.
Both Sanders' claim and Trump's are misleading. While the Democratic-controlled House is pursuing 11 investigations relating to the President, House Democrats have also passed 235 pieces of legislation since January, including several major bills. Of those, only a handful have been taken up by the Republican-held Senate.
According to Congress.gov, the House has passed 235 pieces of legislation during the current session of Congress. That includes big items on the Democratic agenda as well as smaller bipartisan bills that get passed in any Congress, like the naming of post offices.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/politics/sarah-sanders-trump-house-democrats-do-nothing-fact-check/index.html
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