Three of President Donald Trump’s most controversial nominees faced sharp questions in the Senate during hearings Thursday ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Sen. Bill Cassidy has emerged as a central figure in the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s opinions about vaccine safety, both past and present, appeared likely to lead at least a few Senate ...
one of many incensed Democrats. “You don’t condition it. We didn’t do that for Louisiana; we didn’t do that for Florida. I’m hoping that that was just a dumb thing that [Johnson] said ...
"They've got a lot of revenue; they just misspend it all the time." House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, told reporters Monday he wants to see conditions tied to federal ...
The Louisiana Republican senator is facing a challenge ... linking climate with the GOP’s desire to hobble China and give domestic manufacturing sectors a leg up. He rolled out a new version ...
Tough primaries in already-red states like Iowa and Louisiana don’t necessarily mean the GOP is at risk of losing seats, but they could signal that those seats might shift rightward. Republicans ...
Whether these issues are enough to defeat Kennedy remains to be seen. Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, a doctor and the chairman of one of the committees that will hold Kennedy’s confirmation ...
GOP Senate Majority Leader John Thune had previously ... on Friday that Trump’s endorsement was “a big factor” in the Louisiana Republican winning his bid to retain the speaker’s gavel.
President-elect Donald Trump successfully persuaded two critical GOP lawmakers to support Louisiana Republican Mike Johnson as House Speaker. This intervention highlighted Trump's continued ...
But on the first ballot Friday, just three Republicans voted for someone other than the Louisiana Republican — far fewer than the swell of GOP lawmakers who were withholding support in the final ...