Houston Chronicle: Politics

WASHINGTON - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi staged a record-breaking, eight-hour speech Wednesday in an attempt to force a House vote on protections for the "Dreamer" immigrants - and to prove to an increasingly angry wing of progressives and activists that she has done all she could.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

WASHINGTON – In a sign of growing impatience, a group of Houston-area lawmakers from both political parties joined in a letter to Senate leaders Friday demanding "prompt" action on an $81 billion disaster relief package that has been held up in partisan gridlock since December.

Houston Democrat Al Green, who has sought President Donald Trump's impeachment three times, announced Tuesday that he will boycott the president's first State of the Union address.

Last week, a poll indicated House Democrats hold an 11-point advantage over Republicans in the upcoming 2018 midterm election.

Looking back at the first 365 days, there's no doubting Trump has brought a lot of changes to the presidency, but none may be as clear as the commander in chief's daily tweeting.

Republican lawmakers were hammering out a deal Wednesday to avert a weekend government shutdown, putting off for another month a contentious debate on immigration, but also setting aside a long-sought disaster aid package for the victims of Hurricane Harvey and other natural disasters.

WASHINGTON - With the deadline clock ticking, President Donald Trump on Thursday huddled with Republican lawmakers and invited a bipartisan group to the White House next week to try to work out a deal on immigration.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman sued special counsel Robert Mueller and the Justice Department on Wednesday, saying prosecutors had overstepped their bounds by charging him for conduct that he says is unrelated to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share