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Republicans are caught in the Trump Loop.
Most do not want to talk about former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him, but they also do not want to distance themselves from Trump’s considerable coattails.
West Virginia’s three House of Representatives members, all Republicans, were generally cryptic when asked if they supported or opposed the caucus’s removal of Representative Liz Cheney from her leadership role because of her criticism of Trump.
First District Congressman David McKinley first said he wanted a unified message from Republicans to push back against “the extreme agenda of President Biden and Speaker Pelosi.” However, his office did clarify that he voted to oust Cheney.
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Dawn breaks at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
CHARLESTON Once again, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and 1st District Congressman David McKinley, R-W.Va., came in among the top 10 of members of Congress willing to work across party lines.
The nonpartisan Lugar Center founded by former U.S. Senator Richard Lugar and the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University released their annual Bipartisan Index Rankings on Monday for the 116th Congress, covering 2019 and 2020.
The index looks at members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and ranks members based on their willingness to work with members of the opposite political party. Lugar Center Policy Director Dan Diller said that despite the perception that the country is more politically divided than ever, individual members of Congress still worked together on numerous issues.
WASHINGTON West Virginia’s congressional lawmakers for Northern and Southern West Virginia submitted funding requests for projects through the new earmark
WASHINGTON West Virginia s congressional lawmakers for Northern and Southern West Virginia submitted funding requests for projects through the new earmark s
LANSING, W.Va. State and congressional officials were on hand Wednesday as the New River Gorge National River received a long-sought upgrade to New River Go