Rep. Comer prepares scrutiny of Hunter Biden, COVID-19, border
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) is preparing to hit the ground running as chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee in a possible GOP majority, overseeing a large portion of an investigation into President Biden’s administration that Republicans are promising. Comer, who has been ranking member on the committee since mid-2020, has three top priorities for those probes and committee hearings: Hunter Biden’s business dealings, the origins of COVID-19 virus and management of the U.S.-Mexico border. While Comer has to wait until he has the chairman’s gavel t
Read MoreAbortion to be ‘major plank’ of Harris’s midterms pitch
Before Vice President Harris wrapped up remarks last week about the Supreme Court’s repeal of Roe v. Wade, she offered a warning: “This is not over.” In the coming weeks, Harris will be ratcheting up the contrast between Democrats and Republicans on the heels of the high court overturning the decades-old opinion that said abortion was a constitutional right, as she hits the road to try to help Democrats ahead of the midterms. The effort was in the works before the Supreme Court decision, but the message on Roe will be a big part of Harris’s effort, s
Read MoreMcConnell moves to center ahead of midterms
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is moving to the center ahead of the midterm elections, backing a gun safety measure and insisting he is willing to work with President Biden on middle-of-the-road proposals if Republicans win back the Senate majority in November. McConnell’s message is aimed squarely at suburban voters, whom he believes will make the difference in battleground states such as Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Such voters moved away from the GOP under former President Trump, but McConnell and Republicans
Read MoreAfter Roe: A messy state of play
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was a culture-altering event for the United States, ending almost five decades of precedent that allowed people across the country the right to an abortion. But the ruling will affect people in drastically different ways, depending on where they live.Because the high court did not ban the procedure outright, all abortion-related policies will be left to the individual states, creating a motley regional legal system running a range from full access to all-out bans with few, if any, exceptions. There’s nothing uniform about the re
Read MoreFormer Meadows aide to testify at last-minute Jan. 6 hearing
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former special assistant to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, is the mystery guest that will speak at a last-minute hearing organized by the Jan. 6 committee, according to multiple reports. Hutchinson has already provided a wealth of information to the committee, sitting with its investigators over the course of three separate interviews. It was a taped deposition with Hutchinson that the committee used to detail which Republican lawmakers had sought pardons from Trump. It was her testimony that indicated that Meadows had been
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