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Social media raged at Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) Wednesday after he missed a vote to subpoena Elon Musk to testify before the House Oversight Committee.

The motion was made by Ranking Member Gerald Connolly (D-VA), who said Musk has taken a "wrecking ball to systematically dismember our government piece by piece."

The motion to subpoena Musk eventually failed 19-20, with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) "abstaining."...

The Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee claimed Friday that it's "numerically possible" for Democrats to thwart Republicans and vote in House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) as the new House Speaker.

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) told CNN's Jim Acosta that House Democrats are firmly behind Jeffries as current House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) fights to keep his job.

Acosta asked Connolly, "Is there any chance that the Democrats bail out the Republicans and help him hang on to the gavel?"...

At least 62 members of 118th Congress have violated a federal insider trading and conflicts-of-interest law, a Raw Story analysis of congressional financial disclosures reveals.

Most of these violations involve failures to properly disclose stock trades as required by the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012. Some involve not abiding by the transparency and personal financial disclosure requirements first outlined in the STOCK Act's post-Watergate predecessor, the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

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WASHINGTON — Here, on Trump’s Morning After, Republicans are feeling bullish. That’s right. On the right — today’s new right, that is — former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict is seen as a boon for the GOP.

While the GOP could use this week’s historic guilty verdict to break up with the man who co-opted their party back in 2016, it doesn’t seem Republicans are ready to go back to their Reaganesque conservative roots. Instead, they’re tripling down on Trump and betting that his personal brand of populism will carry the party to victory come November.

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WASHINGTON – Henry A. Kissinger is gone, and many lawmakers on Capitol Hill hope he’s soon forgotten.

Kissinger was 100 years old when he died at his Connecticut home Wednesday.

While Kissinger is hailed by many for helping open relations with Maoist China – he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 – he’s also decried as a “war criminal” for orchestrating an illegal bombing campaign in Cambodia that left hundreds of thousands of innocents dead....

Since Jan. 1, at least 37 members of Congress have violated a federal insider trading and conflicts-of-interest law, a Raw Story analysis of congressional financial disclosures reveals.

Most of these violations involve failures to properly disclose stock trades as required by the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012. Some involve not abiding by the transparency and personal financial disclosure requirements first outlined in the STOCK Act's post-Watergate predecessor, the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

The most significant violator clocked in as much as six-and-a-half years late when reporting up to $8.5 million in stock transactions — Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA). Another lawmaker was just a couple days late but still logged up to $165,000 in late stock disclosures — Rep. John Curtis (R-UT). Between them are numerous other Republicans and Democrats alike who have consistently failed to abide by the STOCK Act....