All posts tagged "Dan Meuser"

Rep. Dan Meuser (R-PA) crashed out in an interview with TMZ on Thursday when a reporter pressed him about the upcoming 10-day break for Congress as a stalemate over funding the Department of Homeland Security continued.

Meuser was walking on Capitol Hill when TMZ asked him if he was frustrated over the funding bill, which had stalled in Congress for more than a month. Hours after the interview, the House on Thursday afternoon passed a bill to reopen DHS.

"Mike Johnson's doing an excellent job," Meuser said. "Look, it's far from perfect. But, you know, there is a plan, we are getting things done." ...

Members of Congress are on a summer stock shopping spree — and still violating a financial disclosure law — amid a reinvigorated movement to ban congressional stock trading.

Three members of the House of Representatives appear to have violated the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act this week by filing required reports late — some as much as two years past a federally mandated deadline.

From Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), more than a dozen other members of Congress continue trading stocks and securities, even in the immediate two weeks after the Ending Trading and Holdings in Congressional Stocks (ETHICS) Act passed out of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security. ...

WASHINGTON — A Republican House representative burst into laughter Tuesday when a Raw Story reporter asked him to comment on former President Donald Trump's remarks praising autocrats that included Adolf Hitler.

"You guys still paying attention to what Trump says?" Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) said with a giggle. "Oh my God ... journalists never learn."

Harris, a Freedom Caucus member whose ties to Trump include attendance at a meeting in 2020 to discuss keeping the former president in the White House, admitted that he does not listen to the words that come out of the leading Republican presidential candidate's mouth. ...