Kevin McCarthy Drops Out of Speaker Race
A surprising announcement on Capitol Hill has led to a postponement of today's scheduled vote.
October 08 2015 8:50 AM
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A surprising announcement on Capitol Hill has led to a postponement of today's scheduled vote.
The Republican House speaker announced his resignation today and will leave Congress at the end of October.
The speaker of the House told reporters he doesn't see any reason to enact federal laws protecting workers from getting fired for being LGBT.
The nation's first openly gay senator has a message for the Republican speaker of the House.
A day after being called "Lucifer" and a "miserable son of a bitch," the senator from Texas responded without a trace of fire and brimstone.
Former congressman Barney Frank, blunt as ever, sees positives and potential negatives with the abrupt departure of Speaker of the House John Boehner.
This represents a markedly different stance from the one congressional Republicans took when the court last considered marriage equality.
The House speaker drew a hard line on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act in a first-time meeting with the LGBT Equality Caucus.
The former speaker didn't hold back when asked about the senator from Texas, and said he'd likely vote for his "texting buddy," Donald Trump.
The out MSNBC anchor tries to make sense of the 'total Republican mess' that's consuming Capitol Hill right now.
Jon Stewart's successor at The Daily Show debuted Monday night to mostly positive reviews, but a joke he made about AIDS left the audience groaning.
The move could signal that similar federal legislation is effectively dead in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
If the likes of Jimmy LaSalvia can't take it anymore, maybe the Republican Party will never wake up.
Why House Speaker John Boehner should allow a vote on ENDA.