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Chip Roy
November 17, 2023
Michael Tomasky
George Santos Is a Sideshow. Pay Attention to the Real GOP Dangers.
The comically corrupt congressman is back to doing what he does best—serving as a distraction from greater Republican sins.
November 15, 2023
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Republican Congressman Melts Down Asking What His Party’s Even Doing
Representative Chip Roy began yelling at members of his own party during a House hearing.
November 2, 2023
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
“Shut Up Colonel Sanders”: Republican Drama Is So Messy (and Funny)
Marjorie Taylor Greene is pissed at her colleagues for not supporting her attempt to censure Representative Rashida Tlaib.
July 27, 2023
Pablo Manríquez
100 Degree Days, Wildfires … to Congressional Republicans, Nothing to See Here
You’d think the connection between the weather and climate change would be obvious. But you haven’t discussed the matter with Republicans in Congress.
July 13, 2023
Robert Schlesinger
Far-Right Republicans’ Radical, Bigoted Attack on the Defense Bill
Even the military isn’t safe from the GOP’s war on wokeness.
June 7, 2023
Pablo Manríquez
Meet the House Republican Who Wanted Default—and Got Smoked for It
Texas Representative Chip Roy led the right-wing opposition to the debt deal. He lost big time. But it will hardly matter.
June 6, 2023
Grace Segers
House Conservatives Cut Off GOP Bill to Spite Their Own Speaker
A symbolic bill on gas stoves flamed out because of conservative anger at McCarthy over the debt ceiling deal.
May 31, 2023
Grace Segers
The Debt Deal That Nobody Liked
The debt ceiling agreement forged by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will save the economy from default, but the vibes on Capitol Hill were still decidedly mixed.
January 23, 2023
Pablo Manríquez
There’s Bipartisan Agreement on One Thing: Ticketmaster Sucks
In the most polarized Congress probably ever, there are still plenty of Taylor Swift fans, and the Senate will hold a hearing on the monopoly ticket-peddler Tuesday.
November 11, 2022
Jason Linkins
Kevin McCarthy Is in Trouble
As the GOP’s margin of victory in the House dwindles in the direction of single digits, so too go his chances of becoming speaker.
April 15, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Republican Establishment Tried to Overturn the Election, Too. Mike Lee’s Texts Prove It.
Yes, the Utah senator voted to certify Biden’s victory. But texts between him and Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows show just how deep the GOP effort to overturn the election was.
February 10, 2022
Grace Segers
Congress Has Finally Concluded That Insider Trading Is Bad
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are teeming with ideas to halt the practice of self-enrichment. Which one will they choose?
January 22, 2022
Jason Linkins
Let’s Oust Congress’s Stock Market Miscreants!
Senator Jon Ossoff is leading a push to ban lawmakers from playing the stock market.
March 30, 2021
Casey Michel
The Republican Poseurs Who Claim to Be True Texans
Dan Rodimer and Chip Roy are just the latest carpetbaggers who have moved to the Lone Star State to capitalize on the GOP’s Trumpian turn.
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