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• U.S. House Committees
• Speaker Johnson to meet with Trump, offers Marjorie Taylor Greene advisory role as own job teeters
• Is this the least productive congress ever? Yes, but it’s not just because they’re lazy
• Library of Congress
• What's happening in the closed-door meeting this morning?
• Republicans are voting on speaker nominee

The system is fairly straight forward and can be used to identify most member and committee offices merely by knowing the correct room number regardless of building. The proposed act would require the Department of Education to enforce federal anti-discrimination laws based on the IHRA's definition of anti-Semitism. Over the past few months, a string of Republican resignations and an expulsion have continued to shrink the party's historically tight majority in the U.S.

U.S. House Committees

While most House Republicans continue to wholeheartedly embrace Trump and his divisive brand, Lawler has suggested that it may be time to move on from the former president, particularly after his endorsed candidates fared so poorly on election day. While Republicans gear up for another round of closed-door voting for a speaker nominee, it may not be possible for them to hold a floor vote today. Scott told reporters ahead of the meeting, "I don't necessarily want to be speaker of the house. I want a house that functions correctly." House were held on November 3, 2020, and coincide with the 2020 presidential election. Commissioners aren't allowed to consider a district's partisan makeup when drawing lines.

Speaker Johnson to meet with Trump, offers Marjorie Taylor Greene advisory role as own job teeters

Among important standing committees are those on appropriations, on ways and means (which handles matters related to finance), and on rules. There are also select and special committees, which are usually appointed for a specific project and for a limited period. De La Cruz’s win was a bright spot for Republicans on a generally disappointing election night. De La Cruz will be the first Republican to represent the 15th congressional district in southern Texas, where the party has been trying to make gains among Latino voters. The 14-member commission included five registered Republicans, five registered Democrats and four people registered without a political party. They were selected through a lengthy process run by the state auditors office.

Is this the least productive congress ever? Yes, but it’s not just because they’re lazy

Ballotpedia features 486,894 encyclopedic articles written and curated by our professional staff of editors, writers, and researchers. Latinos, who account for 40% of California's population, will make up a majority of the voting-age population in 16 of the 52 new districts, said Evan McLaughlin, a redistricting expert who works with Democrats. California is one of 10 states that relies on an independent commission to draw lines, rather than judges or partisan lawmakers, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. The new district has a miniscule registration edge for Republicans.

House leaders toil to advance Ukraine and Israel aid. But threats to oust speaker grow

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After the recent shooting at an LGBTQ night club in Colorado Springs, Frost has repeated his call for Congress to advance an assault weapons ban. Maxwell Frost will become the first Gen Z member of Congress when he takes the oath of office in January. Just 25 years old, Frost won his Orlando-area seat by campaigning on implementing Medicare for all and reforming America’s gun laws. Along with their more seasoned colleagues, they will have to navigate the potentially tricky terrain of a narrow Republican majority in the House as Democrats control the White House and the Senate. In his statement, Gallagher said he worked closely with GOP leaders on the timing of his announcement — shortly after the House voted to avert a shutdown — and looks forward to Johnson naming a new China committee chairman. Earlier Friday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., filed a motion to oust Johnson from the speakership over his handling of funding the government, though no vote is scheduled yet.

But as fentanyl test strips are normalized – from high school to college to bachelor parties – experts warn test strips alone can provide a false sense of security, and in some cases do more harm than good. We put fentanyl test strips to the test, and what we found could save someone you know. Miller has his own connection to the January 6 insurrection, as he appeared before the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack over the summer.

Moments later, Scalise, the No. 2 Republican in leadership, confirmed the news to reporters outside the room. "Our conference never voted to oust our Speaker. Eight of our 'morally superior' colleagues made that decision for us," said the letter, which calls for re-nominating McCarthy after condemning the vote to remove him. They'd then keep voting for McCarthy "until enough of our wayward colleagues return to the fold," he wrote. What are Republicans doing behind closed doors now that their speaker nominee has dropped out?

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But many of Lawler’s new colleagues may not be ready to start a new chapter for the Republican party. Mike Lawler’s victory made national headlines, as he defeated the incumbent congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, who served as the chair of House Democrats’ campaign arm this election cycle. Jonathan Allen is a senior national politics reporter for NBC News, based in Washington. Unlike Gallagher and Buck, Granger said she will serve out her House term, which ends in January. He is one of several top Republican chairmen who are not running for re-election in November following a tumultuous House session. Two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News of Gallagher's plan to resign early Friday.

Republicans are voting on speaker nominee

On Your Side's Kristine Lazar has more on the biggest mistakes college students are making with their credit cards. Multiple students and faculty members have been arrested as law enforcement officers raid a pro-Palestinian encampment on UCLA campus. Reports of elder fraud crimes increased by 14% in 2023, according to a new federal report.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan said on Friday that he is re-entering the race for speaker, just a day after the GOP’s nominee, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, dropped his bid for the top job after failing to lock up enough support. “If you can’t get your closest friends, your closest supporters on an election issue to follow you ... It begs the question of can you do anything and can you get anybody to follow you on really difficult issues,” Diaz-Balart said Friday.

But the state of nearly 40 million people still has by far the largest House delegation. Other special elections include filling former Colorado Rep. Ken Buck's seat this June following his resignation in March and former Ohio Rep. Bill Johnson's seat after he resigned in January to serve as the president of Youngstown State University. In the House on Tuesday morning, the Illinois Republican Mary E Miller acted as speaker pro tempore to oversee debate on the Republican antisemitism awareness bill. Jordan, a Donald Trump loyalist who has burnished a reputation on the Hill as a conservative bomb-thrower, could still meet the same fate as Scalise. Because of the party’s razor-thin majority, just five GOP detractors can block Jordan in a House floor vote, and a handful of moderate Republicans have already said they won’t cast their vote for Jordan.

It follows a similar motion, made by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., that successfully toppled then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., last fall. Teresa Leger Fernandez, a Democrat from New Mexico, spoke in answer to Fischbach. She quoted Thomas Massie, a rightwing Republican from Kentucky, as saying the bill was “a political trap … designed to split the Democrat [sic] party and get them stuck” on an issue over which the party is divided. “Traditionally,” the FMEP says, “‘antisemitism’ has meant hostility and prejudice toward Jews because they are Jews – a scourge that has imperiled Jews throughout history, and is a source of resurgent threats to Jews today. The Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP), which “works to ensure a just, secure and peaceful future for Palestinians and Israelis”, has defined the shifting meaning of “antisemitism” in US political discourse. Democrats opposed it as a messaging bill meant simply to boost Republicans on a hot-button issue and trap Democrats into taking politically awkward votes.

Leger Fernandez also said a different bill should be considered, to “designate a senior official at the [US] Department of Education to combat antisemitism on college campuses”. Scalise, R-La., informed Republicans in a closed-door meeting last night that he was dropping his bid to be House speaker, one day after he captured the GOP’s nomination for the top job. In a letter to his colleagues last night, McClintock said, "ENOUGH!" He urged the House GOP to "start acting as a majority again" and "condemn the House vote that removed" McCarthy. Rep. Dan Meuser said in an interview with Newsmax that he is proposing a Scalise-Jordan "leadership team," where one is the speaker and the other is the majority leader "to unite our party, to unite our country."