-
Alabama GOP house member Gary Palmer is no longer running for Speaker of the U.S. House. He was one of nine names floated to replace former leader Kevin McCarthy. One, House member Dan Meuser of Pennsylvania, dropped out. Palmer is the second.
-
Gary Palmer (pictured left) is one of eight candidates to replace Kevin McCarthy. A closed door Republican meeting failed to reach consensus on who should hold the gavel. Palmer’s record is coming under scrutiny following his decision to run for Speaker. The UCLA Promise Institute lists him as an election skeptic regarding the 2020 Presidential race. Axios ranks Palmer with the highest number of bills making it out of the House.
-
None of the Republican members of Alabama’s U.S. House delegation jumped ship during today’s historic ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy. A preliminary head count by CNN and the Los Angeles Times listed GOP House members Matt Gaetz of Florida, Andy Biggs and Eli Crane of Arizona, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Bob Good of Virginia, Matt Rosendale of Montana, Ken Buck of Colorado, and Nancy Mace of South Carolina as having voted with Democrats to remove the embattled Speaker.
-
Alabama Congressman-Elect Dale Strong remains a Congressman-Elect after three failed votes to sit a Speaker. The GOP needs to pick a leader before freshman members can be sworn in.
-
It looks like motorists along the Gulf coast may get a new bridge over Mobile Bay whether Uncle Sam helps pay for it or not.
-
WATCH LIVE ON APR-- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress. The Senate is inching closer to passing a $1.7 trillion government funding bill. Supporters are pointing to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit to Washington
-
The House January sixth committee is wrapping up its investigation of the violent 2021 U.S. Capitol insurrection. This includes a decision about outgoing GOP Alabama House member Mo Brooks.
-
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is holding a series of public hearings. The committee has interviewed hundreds of witnesses and collected tens of thousands of pages of documents as part of its investigation into the deadly attack.
-
The U.S. House of Representatives is debating an article of impeachment against President Trump following the violence at the U.S. Capitol. The article…
-
The U.S. House of Representatives is taking up a resolution that would call on Vice President Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and take over President…