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Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) announced on Tuesday that he would be pursuing assault charges against a woman who threw a glass of wine at him during a wine festival. According to witnesses at the festival, 41-year-old Selena Chambers swore loudly at the Florida congressman before throwing her glass of wine …

Matt Gaetz has been one of the most vocal Republicans in Congress when it comes to cracking down on China. It had to be more than a little embarrassing on Tuesday, then, when the Florida congressman got called out in a House Armed Services Committee hearing for citing Chinese propaganda …

The Justice Department will not charge Matt Gaetz after a prolonged investigation into whether he sex trafficked a 17-year-old girl, CNN reported on Wednesday. Gaetz’s office confirmed the news in a statement to Rolling Stone: “The Department of Justice has confirmed to Congressman Gaetz’s attorneys that their investigation has concluded …

Habitual liar George Santos wants everyone to know that despite having fudged his resume, real estate portfolio, religious background, education, and athletic career, he has “lived a very honest life.” The freshly sworn in Long Island representative has spent his first days in Congress dodging questions about calls for his …

According to Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, America’s founding fathers would have been totally fine with the physical altercation that took place on the House floor last week among members of his party. During the 14th round of voting to elect a speaker late Thursday night, Rep. Richard Hudson restrained Rep. …

Kevin McCarthy was well aware he was going to lose his bid to become Speaker of the House of Representatives on the first ballot, three people with knowledge of the situation told Rolling Stone. What he was not privately predicting was that the beatings would continue for an entire week. …

It’s a stunt, of course. The 20 or so Republicans who have opposed Kevin McCarthy‘s bid for the speakership — and thus prevented the House of Representatives from swearing in its members and beginning its business —have claimed they’re doing so in the name of draining the swamp. They’ve put …

Kevin McCarthy really, really, really wants to be speaker of the House of Representatives. It’s not coming. The 118th Congress began on Tuesday, and though Republicans won control of the chamber last November, a not-insignificant portion of the party remains steadfastly opposed to giving McCarthy the gavel. McCarthy has lost …

Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), the soon-to-be House minority leader, has been telling his fellow Democratic lawmakers to think of the next two years this way: The White House is the client, House Democrats are the defense attorney. Indeed, the Biden administration has huddled a coterie of legal, legislative, and communications specialists …

Joel Greenberg — the former Florida tax collector and running buddy of Rep. Matt Gaetz who pleaded to sex trafficking a minor — will face 11 years in prison. On Thursday, a federal judge sentenced Greenberg after he cooperated with authorities investigating Gaetz for sex trafficking the same minor as …