All posts tagged "Debbie Lesko"

Just hours after the failed House speakership vote on Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), a Trump-allied Republican in Arizona announced she will not seek re-election in 2024, blasting the dysfunction in Congress as part of the reason for her exit.

The announcement by Rep. Debbie Lesko was flagged by Punchbowl News' Mica Soellner.

"I want to spend more time with my husband, my 94-year-old mother, my three children, and my five grandchildren," said Lesko. "Right now, Washington, D.C. is broken; it is hard to get anything done."...

The 2023 NFL Draft was filled with nationally televised pomp, pageantry and scores of young athletes about to become millionaires.

But behind the scenes, nearly a dozen other power players — from Congress — attended the draft as expenses-paid guests of the NFL, according to U.S. House records reviewed by Raw Story.

Records from the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ethics, reviewed by Raw Story, showed that the league paid for high-ranking congressional staff members to travel to Kansas City, site of the draft. The league called it a “Government Affairs Congressional Forum.”...

An Arizona legislators believes that requiring religious employers to provide health insurance coverage for birth control is something a totalitarian regime would propose.