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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy criticized the Democratic majority’s impeachment efforts Wednesday, saying there has been an “issue with fairness” ever since the process began.   “Let’s be honest — this was never about persuasion, it was never about the rule of law,” McCarthy said of impeachment proceedings. Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to ...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy challenged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Tuesday to meet the standard for impeachment that she nearly nine months ago. “Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country,” Pelosi told The Washington Post in ...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Thursday that he believes that Rep. Adam Schiff has “lied numerous times” during his tenure as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, including about his knowledge of the Trump whistleblower. “I think Adam Schiff has lied numerous times. I do not think Adam Schiff is fit to be in this position of running the ...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California is demanding an investigation into a proposed California Department of Education curriculum that is “blatantly anti-Semitic” and “anti-Israel.” Several people involved in making the high school curriculum have been anti-Israel, and some are Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists who have tried to start an economic war on Israel, The Washington Free Beacon reported ...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced Wednesday that his campaign raised $33.7 million in the first half of 2019. “Republicans are on offense, fighting back and winning against the socialist agenda coming from House Democrats,” McCarthy told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The ensuing chaos from the Democrat caucus has left this majority rudderless and exposed their inability to solve ...

update 5/16/19 – 11:29 a.m. : This post was modified to include additional quotes. WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said former Vice President Joe Biden is the “Jeb Bush of this election cycle” Thursday, adding that he also has “too much to apologize for.” The California Republican spoke about infrastructure, privacy, technology and the prospect of Biden winning ...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy challenged Democrats on Wednesday to list the problems, if any, that the House of Representatives has solved under the new Democratic leadership. “We are three days away from the 100-day mark of Democrats holding the majority of the House … and you can sum of the first hundred days in three words: radicalism, resistance and ...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is pressing House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff for answers about his interactions with Glenn Simpson, the founder of the opposition research firm behind the Democrat-funded Steele dossier. In a statement released on Friday, McCarthy questioned whether Schiff, a California Democrat, should recuse himself from the Intelligence panel’s Russia investigation because of a meeting he had ...

Rep. Kevin McCarthy says that three deep-pocketed leftists are trying to buy the 2018 elections and the whole of the U.S. government. “Just think of, of the three individuals that are funding the Democratic party,” McCarthy told Maria Bartiromo Sunday on Fox News. McCarthy listed George Soros, Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer as the three men hoping to buy the ...

House Majority Leader Keven McCarthy (R-CA23) said that momentum for the 2018 midterms has swung to Republicans after voters saw how Democrats treated Judge Brett Kavanaugh. “Prior to the Kavanaugh hearing, the intensity level was really on the Democratic side,” McCarthy told Maria Bartiromo on Sunday. “In the last week, there’s been a fundamental shift. People are becoming upset.” McCarthy ...

The House of Representatives must “finish the job” when it comes to getting the funding for President Donald Trump’s wall along the U.S. border with Mexico House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA.) said Saturday. During an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on SiriusXM,  McCarthy reported news that the House has successfully secured an additional $5 billion for a border wall. “I ...

Many in the political sphere see Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) retirement from Congress as a sign that Republicans will lose control of the House of Representatives after the 2018 midterm election. “It is a big indicator that the speaker doesn’t think he’d be speaker anymore,” former Gov. Chris Christie, (R-NJ)., said on ABC’s “Powerhouse Politics” podcast Wednesday. “If you’re a betting ...

Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence will attend a Tax Reform event in Sacramento, California along with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy Monday evening as part of a 3-day visit to the Golden State. McCarthy and Pence are attending fundraisers in red districts to help House Republicans hold on to the few members of Congress from California that ...

It is axiomatic in politics that you can’t beat someone with no one. It’s a lesson one would think House Republican conservatives are well aware of, but I’m beginning to think that is not the case. As an outsider who has been active in politics for decades, I assumed that the effort to oust John Boehner as speaker included a ...

The Constitution of the United States of America, Amendment II:  “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” It isn’t a matter of whether the government bureaucrats and politicians understand the phrase “shall not be infringed” or not, but rather a ...