By Benjamin Cox on May 12, 2021 at 7:13pm
Local Congressmen Rodney Davis and Darin LaHood have not said whether they voted to oust Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney as the House Republican Conference Chair this morning. Cheney was removed early this morning in a closed-ballot vote by colleagues.
House Republican leadership had said in previous weeks that Cheney’s open fight with former-President Donald Trump had become a distraction and that she should not serve in a leadership position in which the job is to unify the party as it seeks to combat current President Joe Biden’s agenda, as well as hopes of winning back the U.S. House in the 2022 elections.
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Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin at Judiciary Committee hearings in 2018. But there are reasons for hope, Durbin said, as evidenced by the way he has formed lasting friendships with key Republican Senate leaders such as Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham. I have a special friendship with Lindsey Graham that has endured through the years and people in Springfield cannot even understand why I say that, Durbin said. But he has helped me and I ve tried to help him if something s right. When I reintroduced the Dream Act I had one lead Republican cosponsor and it was Lindsey Graham. He told me he would do it and he did it.
By Jeremy Coumbes on March 1, 2021 at 5:57pm
A pair of U.S. Representatives from Illinois are calling for Congress to pass emergency funding in the wake of the natural gas crisis.
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th District Congressman Rodney Davis and 18
th District Congressman Darin LaHood sent a letter to Congressional leadership today urging the passage of a bipartisan emergency appropriation for communities who faced high natural gas prices during recent severe weather.
In the letter, the Congressmen cited the price per unit of natural gas increasing as much as 15 times the cost of what it was weeks ago and say “as the COVID-19 pandemic persists and local communities continue to recover, many are now faced with dauntingly high energy bills, including many that [they] represent.
By Benjamin Cox on February 27, 2021 at 6:55am
The U.S. House passed President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan early this morning in a near-party line vote. The vote was 219 to 212, with Democrats pushing the measure over unanimous Republican opposition. Two Democrats crossed party lines and voted with Republicans against the bill.
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th District Republican Congressman Darin LaHood says this morning that the package was purposely designed to pass through budget reconciliation without Republican input. LaHood says it was designed that way to pass through the Senate on just a majority vote. LaHood believes that President Biden and House and Senate Democrats designed the package to circumvent any Republican changes or input.