Gabriella Muñoz

Adam Schiff: Donald Trump using Ukraine in 2020 bid with push for Hunter Biden probe

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff accused President Trump of trying to get Ukraine to help win his reelection in 2020 by targeting the Biden family in an investigation.

May 12, 2019

Adam Schiff: Democrats may fine Trump officials who defy subpoenas $25,000 per day

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said Sunday that Democrats are considering using the power of inherent contempt to fine Trump officials that resist their subpoenas.

May 12, 2019

College Democrats buck DCCC over primary-challenger policy, see Ocasio-Cortez as inspiration

House Democrats' plans to blacklist rebellious strategists have sparked a backlash from a key party demographic, with dozens of chapters of College Democrats vowing to boycott the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. In doing so, the boycotting chapters are finding a champion in freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

May 10, 2019

Nancy Pelosi on impeachment: ‘It has nothing to do with politics’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that neither her chamber's investigations into President Trump nor some members' eagerness to impeach him is politically motivated.

May 9, 2019

Hoyer says Dems have moved ‘to the center’ post-midterms

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Wednesday that the Democratic Party in Washington is actually less liberal after last year's elections, despite all the attention progressive lawmakers have been getting.

May 8, 2019

Nancy Pelosi jokes about jailing Trump officials

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that the House could start to arrest Trump administration officials she deems are obstructing Congress's investigations -- but quipped that they don't have the jail space to hold everyone.

May 8, 2019

Nancy Pelosi backs Jerrold Nadler: ‘I think that the attorney general should be held in contempt’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is backing the Judiciary Committee's push to hold Attorney General William P. Barr in contempt of Congress, suggesting Wednesday that the Trump administration isn't negotiating in good faith.

May 8, 2019

Nancy Pelosi: Donald Trump is ‘taunting’ Democrats to impeach him

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that President Trump is trying to "goad" Democrats to impeach him for political purposes -- but she said he's also making a pretty good case for why he should be impeached.

May 7, 2019

Earl Blumenauer signs on to Rashida Tlaib’s impeachment resolution

Rep. Rashida Tlaib's impeachment resolution gained another signature on Thursday, with Rep. Earl Blumenauer becoming its seventh co-sponsor.

May 3, 2019

Democratic presidential contenders demand William Barr’s resignation

Roughly 20 Democrats -- including at least four presidential candidates -- have publicly called for Attorney General William P. Barr to resign from the Justice Department.

May 2, 2019

House votes to recommit U.S. to Paris Climate Accord

The Democratic-led House voted Thursday to recommit the U.S. to the Paris climate accord negotiated by former President Barack Obama that his Republican successor is trying to tear up.

May 2, 2019

Nancy Pelosi: William Barr committed ‘crime’ by lying to Congress

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that Attorney General William P. Barr committed a crime by lying to Congress -- but stopped short of saying what consequences there should be.

May 2, 2019

John Bolton, Democrats clash over U.S. military intervention in Venezuela

President Trump's national security adviser suggested U.S. troops are raring to get involved in the escalating chaos in Venezuela but lawmakers on both sides of the aisle said Wednesday they haven't signed off on any such commitment.

May 1, 2019

Nancy Pelosi slams Donald Trump for ‘stonewalling’ Congress and blocking oversight

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still isn't calling for impeachment but did ramp up her anti-Trump rhetoric Wednesday, calling attempts to block congressional investigations into the White House "immoral, unethical, corrupt and unpatriotic."

May 1, 2019

Donald Trump impeachment ‘on the table’ as president thwarts probes, infuriates Democrats

Democrats returned from a two-week spring break enraged at President Trump -- but the appetite for impeachment remains low even in the wake of the release of the special counsel's report that found evidence of behavior that could be seen as obstruction of justice.

April 30, 2019

Activists at People’s Wave Convention working to create agenda they want Democratic Party to embrace

Progressive activists gathered in Washington this week to adopt an agenda they want the Democratic Party to embrace heading into the 2020 elections, demanding fealty to expansive government ideas such as a federal jobs guarantee and erasing drug convictions from criminal records.

April 29, 2019

Derek Kilmer, moderate Democrats challenge media narrative of party gallop to the left

If Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her allies are the vanguard of the Democratic Party's militant left, then Rep. Derek Kilmer and the New Democrat Coalition are the rearguard -- fighting to keep their party from tipping so far to the political margins that they leave mainstream voters behind.

April 28, 2019

Jennifer Wexton, Abigail Spanberger, Elaine Luria control Democrat House majority fate

Democrats' chances of defending their House majority next year could depend on the fate of three freshmen women -- and none of them is named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib.

April 25, 2019

Nancy Pelosi to meet with Trump on infrastructure next week

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set to meet with President Trump after Congress returns from Easter recess to discuss a bipartisan approach on infrastructure, even as members of her own party are clamoring to start impeachment proceedings against him.

April 23, 2019

Don McGahn subpoenaed by House Judiciary Committee

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed former White House counsel Don McGahn on Monday, requiring he appear in front of Congress by the end of next month.

April 22, 2019