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The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday abruptly put off its push to subpoena two conservative allies of Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Clarence Thomas as part of a Supreme Court ethics inquiry that has met stiff resistance from Republicans. Facing G.O.P. threats to engage in a bitter, drawn-out fight, Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois and the panel’s chairman, halted his planned effort to compel cooperation from Leonard Leo, a longtime leader of the Federalist Society, and the billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow. Mr. Durbin said that Democrats remained united in their desire to force more information from the men about undisclosed luxury travel and other benefits provided to the justices, but that they needed more time to assess a barrage of politically charged amendments that Republicans were planning to offer in an effort to embarrass them and derail the inquiry. Republicans said they planned to draw immigration issues into the fight and require votes to subpoena the staff of Justice Sonia Sotomayor about promoting her personal book sales, along with other hot-button issues.
Persons: Samuel A, Alito Jr, Clarence Thomas, Richard J, Durbin, Leonard Leo, Harlan Crow, Sonia Sotomayor Organizations: Republicans, Federalist Society Locations: Illinois
At odds with one another on spending, House Republicans abruptly scrapped their legislative work on Thursday and left Washington with little progress toward funding the government and no plan to avert a shutdown next week. That effort would involve rallying deeply anti-spending Republicans around a stopgap funding bill that is likely to be a dead letter in the Democratic-controlled Senate. Instead of revealing a path forward to keep the government open, Mr. Johnson spent the week trying and failing to push through two individual spending bills that collapsed for lack of G.O.P. It was yet another reflection of the rifts among House Republicans that have made their tiny majority ungovernable, leading to the ouster of their last speaker and so far confounding his successor, who is far more conservative and less experienced. When it’s 220 and you’ve got as many individual personalities — and to be fair, different interests and different districts — that’s a risky game to play.”
Persons: Mike Johnson, , Johnson, , Tom Cole of Oklahoma, , you’ve Organizations: Republicans, Democratic Locations: Washington
They found themselves back in the same predicament they confronted in September, when Congress narrowly avoided a shutdown just hours before the deadline. With that temporary funding measure set to expire in days, Mr. Johnson appears set on avoiding a repeat of the circumstances that doomed his predecessor. That means he will need to corral nearly all Republicans to pass a government funding measure, a considerable feat given his party’s resistance to federal spending. “We certainly want to avoid a government shutdown,” Mr. Johnson said. At a closed-door meeting underneath the Capitol on Tuesday morning, Mr. Johnson presented a menu of spending strategies to his conference.
Persons: Biden, Mike Johnson, Drew Ferguson, Johnson, Kevin McCarthy, , Mr, ” Mr, McCarthy Organizations: Democratic, Republican, Capitol, Republicans Locations: Georgia, Israel, Ukraine
Republicans didn’t have a speaker for 40 years until Newt Gingrich finally reclaimed the gavel for the party in 1995 after decades in the wilderness. But hanging on to it has proved extremely challenging for Republicans in the years since — a potential object lesson for incoming Speaker Mike Johnson. From Newt Gingrich to John A. Boehner to Kevin McCarthy and points in between, Republican speakers and speaker candidates have encountered significant turbulence from their own colleagues. The result has been internal revolts of the sort that led to Mr. Johnson’s ascent from practically nowhere to the highest office in Congress on Wednesday. “We’ve got a history of displacing speakers now that in my opinion is a cultural challenge that we need to address,” said Representative Mike Garcia, Republican of California.
Persons: didn’t, Newt Gingrich, Mike Johnson, John A, Boehner, Kevin McCarthy, Johnson, “ We’ve, , Mike Garcia Organizations: Republicans, Republican Locations: California
The Far Right Gets Its Man of the House
  + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Carl Hulse | More About Carl Hulse | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
His strong standing on the right was underscored minutes after his nomination Tuesday night. Mr. Johnson is fundamentally more conservative than the ousted speaker, Kevin McCarthy, who despite his frequent partisan attacks realized he needed to cut deals with Democrats to keep the government solvent and operating. He twice this year passed critical legislation with Democratic votes — ultimately sparking the coup that led to his downfall. Whether Mr. Johnson shares that same bipartisan imperative with a mid-November deadline looming for keeping the government open will become clear in the coming weeks. He will need to navigate his way out of a spending impasse that has split House Republicans before he even gets to negotiations with the White House and Senate leaders who now find themselves dealing with an unknown and untested new partner.
Persons: Johnson, Virginia Foxx, Kevin McCarthy, Organizations: Republicans, Republican, Committee, Caucus, Democratic, White Locations: Louisiana, North Carolina
Representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the No. 3 House Republican, lasted only about four hours on Tuesday as the party’s third speaker designate. After winning the nomination in a morning session, he was quickly brought down by conservatives questioning his right-wing credentials. Mr. Emmer was last seen fleeing the Longworth House Office Building with nary a word after he unceremoniously dropped out of the race. There was a momentary boomlet for Mr. Emmer as he emerged victorious from an internal party nominating contest with a narrow win.
Persons: Tom Emmer, Donald J, Trump, Emmer, , Steve Womack, Jim Jordan of Organizations: Republican, Republicans, House Locations: Minnesota, New York, Longworth, Arkansas, Jim Jordan of Ohio
Follow our live updates for the House speaker nominee vote. House Republicans have elected two nominees for the job since a hard-right clutch of lawmakers toppled Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The math can change if there are absences, or if any lawmakers vote “present” rather than in support of a candidate. Mr. Jeffries has pitched the idea of forming a coalition government that he describes as an “enlightened arrangement.” But the idea is a long shot. Empowering Mr. McHenry, one of Mr. McCarthy’s closest allies, was regarded by many far-right members as akin to reinstalling Mr. McCarthy as speaker.
Persons: Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, Jim Jordan, Ohio —, Jordan, McCarthy’s, Biden, Kenny Holston, McCarthy, Hakeem Jeffries, Mr, Jeffries, Patrick McHenry, Haiyun Jiang, Patrick T, McHenry, Luke Broadwater Organizations: Republican, Republicans, Conference, New York Times, Mr, Democrats, The New York Times Legislative, Hamas Locations: Louisiana, Ohio, Ukraine, New York, Israel, McHenry of North Carolina, McHenry
House Republicans have elected two nominees for the job since a hard-right clutch of lawmakers toppled Speaker Kevin McCarthy. House Republicans cast aside Mr. Jordan as their nominee for speaker on Friday in a secret-ballot vote, essentially moving to begin the search for a new leader all over again. They are holding an internal election for a new nominee on Tuesday — and if they elect one, Republicans could go to the House floor for a vote later that day. The math can change if there are absences, or if any lawmakers vote “present” rather than in support of a candidate. Empowering Mr. McHenry, one of Mr. McCarthy’s closest allies, was regarded by many far-right members as akin to reinstalling Mr. McCarthy as speaker.
Persons: Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, Jim Jordan, Ohio —, Jordan, McCarthy’s, Biden, Kenny Holston, McCarthy, Hakeem Jeffries, Mr, Jeffries, Patrick McHenry, Haiyun Jiang, Patrick T, McHenry, Luke Broadwater Organizations: Republican, Republicans, Conference, New York Times, Mr, Democrats, The New York Times Legislative, Hamas Locations: Louisiana, Ohio, Ukraine, New York, Israel, McHenry of North Carolina, McHenry
Representative Jim Jordan was brought down by the revolt of the rule followers. They believed that installing Mr. Jordan, a hard-right Ohioan and political brawler, would reward colleagues who had played dirty in unseating Speaker Kevin McCarthy and undermining the candidacy of Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana. It particularly galled them that Mr. Scalise, the No. 2 Republican, defeated Mr. Jordan, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, in the initial party vote to choose a replacement for Mr. McCarthy only to then watch Mr. Jordan’s allies immediately pivot to denying Mr. Scalise the speakership on the floor. The anti-Jordan lawmakers then found themselves under a withering social media attack from the right and confronting violent threats against them and their families for balking at voting for Mr. Jordan.
Persons: Jim Jordan, Jordan, Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, Scalise, McCarthy, Jordan’s, , Mario Diaz Organizations: Republican, Committee Locations: Louisiana, Florida
PinnedRepresentative Jim Jordan of Ohio failed for a third time on Friday morning to win election as House speaker, leaving his party with no consensus on a way forward and the chamber paralyzed in the face of growing pressure to get back to business. Three Republicans from swing districts won by President Biden — Representative Marc Molinaro of New York, Representative Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Representative Tom Kean of New Jersey — abandoned Mr. Jordan after supporting him earlier. There is no consensus among Republicans about an alternative candidate to Mr. Jordan, who has yet to show any inclination to drop out of the race. The House has been in a state of chaos for 18 days after hard-right rebels ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Mr. Jordan then received his party’s nomination to be speaker, but he failed to win the post in votes by the full House on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Persons: Jim Jordan of, Jordan, Biden, Marc Molinaro, Brian Fitzpatrick, Tom Kean of, Tom Kean of New Jersey —, Patrick T, McHenry, Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, Organizations: Tom Kean of New, Republicans, Republican, Capitol, Caucus, Committee Locations: Jim Jordan of Ohio, New York, Tom Kean of New Jersey, McHenry of North Carolina, Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, Mexico, Louisiana
Amanda McDaniel, a member of the preservation alliance, is rooting for Jordan’s speaker bid — seeing in him the same principles she holds. It is not an approach that builds consensus — a previous Republican speaker to brand him a “legislative terrorist” — even as he has steadily parlayed it into political success. Mr. Jordan embraced right-wing populism long before the Tea Party or Donald Trump made into a national force. Eric Forson, 50, said that when he wrote to his elected representatives during the 2013 government shutdown, Mr. Jordan was the only one who responded. Ms. Esch and her husband, Mike, 57 were both hopeful that Mr. Jordan would drum up the votes needed to take the speaker role on Wednesday.
Persons: Jim Jordan, Amanda McDaniel, , McDaniel, Jordan, , Katie Porter, Porter, Mr, Jordan’s, Donald Trump, grimaces, Jim wasn’t, Brian Seaver, Eric Forson, Forson, he’s, Missy Esch, . Esch, Mike, Mike Esch Organizations: Champaign County Preservation Alliance, Ohio, Ohio General, Caucus, Tea Party, Lima Correctional, State Senate, Urbana Brewing Company Locations: Champaign, Urbana, Ohio, Washington, Lima, Jordan’s
After Republicans pulled the plug on a second speaker vote on Tuesday, Representative Hakeem Jeffries went out to the Capitol steps to castigate Republicans for their predicament. He urged them to work with Democrats to find a solution, though he was not specific what that might be. Mr. Jordan also was apparently rebuffed by Mr. Scalise when he asked for help in converting those still simmering over the treatment of the majority leader. The floor showdown also gave Republicans a taste of what they could expect from Democrats if they did end up going with Mr. Jordan. He served notice that every comment and position Mr. Jordan had made or taken would be hung around the neck of House Republicans who backed him — and 200 did so on Tuesday, even as he fell short.
Persons: Hakeem Jeffries, ” —, Jordan, MAGA, Scalise, McCarthy, Pete Aguilar, Jeffries, Mr, Organizations: Republicans, Republican, Democrat, Democratic, Ohio Republican Locations: Pete Aguilar of California, Ohio
Senate Republicans and Democrats reached agreement on Tuesday on a stopgap spending plan that would head off a government shutdown on Sunday while providing billions in disaster relief and aid to Ukraine, according to officials in both parties, but the measure faced resistance in the Republican-led House. The bill, which is slated to face a test vote late Tuesday afternoon, would keep government funding flowing through Nov. 17 to allow more time for negotiations over yearlong spending bills and provide about $6 billion for the Ukraine war effort as well as approximately $6 billion for disaster relief in the wake of a series of wildfires and floods. Senate leaders hoped to pass it by the end of the week and send it to the House in time to avert a shutdown now set to begin at midnight Saturday. But there was no guarantee that Speaker Kevin McCarthy would bring the legislation to the House floor for a vote, since some far-right Republicans have said they would try to remove him from his post if he did. Still, in putting it forward, Senate leaders in both parties were ratcheting up the pressure on Mr. McCarthy, who has failed to put together a temporary spending plan of his own.
Persons: Kevin McCarthy, McCarthy Organizations: Republicans, Democrats, Republican Locations: Ukraine
With a potential government shutdown now less than a week away, President Biden and other administration officials this weekend intensified their warnings of the consequences of closing government agencies as they pressed congressional Republicans to find a way out of their spending stalemate. Both the president and the transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, made public calls for Republicans to resolve their differences before next Sunday, when federal funding is set to lapse. Yet even after a weekend of private haggling at the Capitol, there was no sign that the G.O.P. “Now everyone in America could be forced to pay the price.”“Funding the government is one of the most basic responsibilities of Congress,” he said. “It’s time for Republicans to start doing the job America elected them to do.”
Persons: Biden, Pete Buttigieg, ” Mr, , Kevin McCarthy, Organizations: Republicans, Capitol, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, America Locations: America
“Anytime we have an obstacle, let’s not quit,” Mr. McCarthy told reporters as he was pressed on how he intended to overcome the resistance from the far right. There were a lot of Republicans who said they would never vote for me as speaker either,” he said, referring to his January fight for the speaker’s gavel that took 15 House votes to decide. But it was that battle that was coming back to haunt Mr. McCarthy, who appeared unable to satisfy the same band of hard-right rebels who had demanded concessions from him — including promises to rein in federal spending — in exchange for their votes to make him speaker. While Mr. McCarthy tried to appear unflappable, smilingly shaking hands and greeting tourists in the Capitol Rotunda, his allies were growing increasingly frustrated by the opposition, accusing some on the right of “moving the goal posts” in an effort to undermine Mr. McCarthy and topple him from his post. Other lawmakers close to Mr. McCarthy said the stalemate was costing House Republicans valuable leverage in the upcoming funding showdown with the Senate and the White House.
Persons: let’s, ” Mr, McCarthy, , Mr, Steve Womack Organizations: Republicans, Senate, White Locations: Arkansas
Deep Republican divisions erupted onto the House floor on Tuesday as a handful of far-right conservatives blocked a Pentagon spending bill from coming up for debate, dealing an embarrassing setback to Speaker Kevin McCarthy as he struggled to round up votes to prevent a government shutdown in less than two weeks. It left the chamber paralyzed for the moment, with little time before a Sept. 30 deadline to avert a government closure. Even if it could make it through the House, the temporary spending measure stood little chance in the Democratic-led Senate, where its combination of deep spending cuts and stringent border policies were seen as nonstarters. But the House’s inability to move on a stopgap plan further delayed any negotiations on Capitol Hill toward a bipartisan spending compromise. With none of the 12 annual spending bills passed, such a temporary bill will be needed to keep the government funded after next Friday.
Persons: Kevin McCarthy, McCarthy Organizations: Democratic
Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s bid to gain the upper hand in a battle over federal spending hit stiff opposition from within his own ranks on Monday, leaving him with dwindling options and little time to find his way out of a spending impasse that could lead to a government shutdown in less than two weeks. The measure had little chance of passing the Democratic-controlled Senate, but Mr. McCarthy, who has made it clear he is desperate to avoid a politically damaging shutdown, has promoted it as a way to pressure the other chamber to come his way on spending. Yet the internal resistance made it clear he is well short of the votes to pass it. “The Republican House is failing the American people again and pursuing a path of gamesmanship and circus,” Representative Victoria Spartz, Republican of Indiana, said in a statement. “Neither Republicans nor Democrats have the backbone to challenge the corrupt swamp that is bankrupting our children and grandchildren.
Persons: Kevin McCarthy’s, McCarthy, Victoria Spartz, , Eli Crane, Organizations: Democratic, Republican, , Republicans, Democrats Locations: Indiana, Arizona
Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Sunday that he intended to resurrect a stalled Pentagon spending measure and try to push it to the House floor this week despite pledges by members of the far-right Freedom Caucus to oppose the move unless their sweeping demands on spending were met. His decision, announced on Fox News, was a bid to pressure far-right members to drop their insistence on steeper spending cuts or risk political heat for blocking the Pentagon funding bill. with his job on the line. “We’ll bring it to the floor, win or lose, and show the American public who’s for the Department of Defense, who’s for the military, who’s for giving them a pay raise,” Mr. McCarthy said. He said his own experience with previous government closures had convinced him that they are best avoided, and that a shutdown would only put President Biden in a stronger position.
Persons: Kevin McCarthy, who’s, Mr, McCarthy, Biden Organizations: Fox News, Republicans, Department of Defense, Republican
Facing a Shutdown, Congress Melts Down
  + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Carl Hulse | More About Carl Hulse | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Bringing some order to Capitol Hill is proving to be an extraordinarily tall order. The year began auspiciously with a pledge by both Republicans and Democrats to return to the old ways when it came to the oldest of congressional duties: funding the government. It hasn’t quite worked out. Just two weeks from the end of the fiscal year, the appropriations process is in chaos, not one of a dozen bills has passed, a shutdown looms, tempers are flaring and the endgame is barely beginning. “Can’t govern, don’t want to govern,” said Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the senior Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, characterizing the demands of the extreme right in the House as, “if you don’t make the cuts we want, we shut the place down.”
Persons: , , Rosa DeLauro Organizations: Republicans Locations: Connecticut
An urgent push by Speaker Kevin McCarthy to avert a government shutdown collapsed on Thursday as he bowed to resistance from his most conservative members and abandoned an effort to bring up a Pentagon spending measure this week. The surrender to the far right underscored the difficulties facing Mr. McCarthy as he tries to find a way to advance a series of spending bills and avoid a shutdown in two weeks, all while grasping to hold onto his post amid right-wing threats to oust him. During a closed meeting of House Republicans on Thursday morning, Mr. McCarthy was adamant that Republicans needed to avoid a shutdown, according to those attending. They said he vented at members over the stalemate and issued a profane dare to those who have threatened to try to remove him as speaker if he did not accede to their demands on spending or tried to strike a spending deal with Democrats. He also said he would keep the House in session next week until a spending breakthrough was achieved.
Persons: Kevin McCarthy, McCarthy Organizations: Republican, Democrat, Republicans
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  + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
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Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s job is on the line as the House returns on Tuesday to confront a funding impasse that could lead to a government shutdown or a challenge to the California Republican’s hold on the top post in the House. Far-right Republicans are refusing to back a measure to keep the federal government funded past Sept. 30 without substantial spending cuts and stringent new border policies that stand little chance of becoming law. They are also threatening to depose Mr. McCarthy should he turn to Democrats for assistance in scrounging together the votes he needs to avoid a shutdown. “Stay tuned,” Mr. Gaetz said on Monday night when reached for comment, declining to elaborate. Members of the ultraconservative Freedom Caucus were also planning a public event on Tuesday to vent their discontent with the spending landscape.
Persons: Kevin McCarthy’s, Mr, McCarthy, Matt Gaetz, Gaetz, Biden Organizations: Republicans, Florida Republican Locations: California, scrounging, Florida
Given the rapidly approaching deadline, leaders of both the House and the Senate agree that a temporary stopgap funding measure will be needed to avert a government shutdown beginning Oct. 1. But that usually routine legislation is facing major obstacles in the Republican-led House, making its path to President Biden’s desk unusually fraught. At the same time, senators of both parties want the stopgap bill to include billions of dollars in new assistance to Ukraine, a demand that House Republicans are resisting. House Democrats want nothing to do with any of the Republican bills, which have also been loaded with conservative social policy riders that have little chance of enactment. “Honestly, it’s a pretty big mess,” Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the minority leader, recently told an audience in his home state.
Persons: Kevin McCarthy, Biden’s, Donald J, Mitch McConnell Organizations: Senate, Republican, Trump, Republicans, Democrats Locations: Ukraine, Kentucky
Opinion | Living and Dying in ¾ Time
  + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Think of them as elusive, shimmering creatures from another planet. I don’t think I ever met anyone as warm. Maybe he liked reporters because he started as a journalist, writing for Billboard magazine. I went with him to Walter Reed medical center when he sang for wounded Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. During the Covid years, he did “cabin fever Zooms” with health care workers from across the country who were Parrotheads.
Persons: WASHINGTON, Jimmy Buffett, Carl Hulse, , “ You’re, Jimmy, Walter Reed Organizations: Billboard, The Locations: Washington, Iraq, Afghanistan
“He is the devil they know and a very pragmatic leader,” said Senator Kevin Cramer, Republican of North Dakota, about Mr. McConnell and Senate Democrats. He has also made it very clear that he wants to avoid a government shutdown and shares the view of Senate Democrats that federal spending has to be higher than what House Republicans are pursuing. And he has suggested that initiating an impeachment of Mr. Biden is not a great idea. Democrats who often rip Mr. McConnell are refraining from doing so right now. 2 Democrat, who had a lengthy conversation on the floor with Mr. McConnell about his health when the Senate convened Tuesday after a long summer recess.
Persons: , Kevin Cramer, McConnell, Mr, Biden, Richard J, Durbin, ” Mr, Barack Obama, Donald J, Trump Organizations: Republican, Republicans, Democrats, Republican Party, Illinois, Mr, Biden Locations: North Dakota, Ukraine, Kentucky, Washington
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