All posts tagged "Michael Mccaul"

A Republican lawmaker admitted Wednesday that MAGA is splintering over President Donald Trump and his policies.

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that even with the friction among lawmakers over the president, he still thinks Trump has power in the Republican party and 2026 midterm elections — but he has seen division growing among conservatives.

"Well, I think President Trump still has tremendous power in Republican primaries. There's no question about that," McCaul said. ...

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House Republicans outspent their Democratic counterparts in taxpayer-funded travel expenditures by nearly $8 million since the start of 2023, a new OpenSecrets analysis found.

Eight out of the top 10 biggest spenders between the start of 2023 to March 2024 were Republican members of Congress. They accounted for 7% of total taxpayer-funded travel spending by GOP members of Congress and with each of the top spenders spending two to five times more than the average House office....

MILWAUKEE — Donald Trump and a fraternity of fellow felons played starring roles at this week’s Republican National Convention.

There was former Trump adviser Peter Navarro, fresh out of federal prison, delivering a prime-time speech.

There was former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, prowling the Fiserv Forum convention floor with official credentials....

ConocoPhillips is the big corporate winner after the Biden administration this week approved the massive Willow oil and gas project.

The project will open massive amounts of public land in Alaska’s North Slope to new drilling by the Houston-based petroleum company.

But several members of Congress — Democrats and Republicans alike — could also be winners thanks to their personal stock holdings in ConocoPhillips, a Raw Story analysis of congressional financial disclosures indicates....

House Homeland Security Committee hears testimony from Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis, Sen. Joe Lieberman and Massachusetts Homeland Security official Kurt Schwartz about the Patriots' Day attacks and the investigation that followed.

The old cliche of Republicans holding all the money isn't necessarily true today: D.C. political publication Roll Call published their annual list of the 50 richest members of Congress Friday, and seven Democrats are in the list's top 10 slots. Overall, 31 Republicans and 19 Democrats made the list.