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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) had an active rebuttal for critics who say she isn’t fit for office. The freshman lawmaker posted video Friday of her cranking out pushups with Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.)during a recess from House hearings. “I needed to get my head back in the game, so Rep. @jimmygomezca and I did some pushups to get the blood pumping,”… Read more »

House oversight of President Trump is ramping up as the House Ways and Means Committee prepares to request Trump's tax returns. Rep. Jimmy Gomez, who asked Michael Cohen about Trump's taxes when he appeared before Congress joins the Last Word to discuss what comes next. Full Article Read more »

"I have never intentionally misled Congress or intentionally said anything incorrect under oath," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross insisted yesterday while testifying before a congressional committee about his decision to include a citizenship question in the 2020 census. Mind you, Ross definitely misled Congress, and he definitely said things that were incorrect under oath, while… Read more »

House Democrats grilled Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday about how he would handle a request from Congress for the president's tax returns at a Capitol Hill budget hearing.  Democrats, led by the Ways and Means Committee and Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., are carefully preparing to request 10 years of the president's personal returns - and fight… Read more »

At Thursday’s hearing, Ross appeared, at times, evasive, unconvincing and confused under the unrelenting Democratic assault. “"Were you trained by your attorneys to dodge these questions?” an irate Rep.Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., asked at one point. On several occasions, Ross cited the fact that he had turned over 8,700 pages of documents. In response to a number of questions, he cited either… Read more »

Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) reacts after dozens of parents, including famous actresses, were charged in an alleged conspiracy to get students into top colleges, according to a federal criminal complaint. Full Article Read more »

The Federal Aviation Administration is facing growing criticism for backing the airworthiness of Boeing's 737 Max jetliners as the number of countries that have grounded them grows in the wake of the Ethiopian Airlines crash over the weekend. The rest of the world typically takes it cues from the FAA, long considered the world's gold standard for aircraft safety. Several U.S.… Read more »

His long-awaited appearance before the House Oversight Committee comes only days after a second federal judge said Ross violated federal law and the Constitution by hastily adding the question to the upcoming survey. Democrats have sought answers from the Trump administration for more than a year about its handling of the all-important headcount, zeroing in not only on potential… Read more »

Federal prosecutors Tuesday charged 50 people with bribery and cheating to get college applicants into prestigious universities, from Yale to Stanford, USC to Georgetown and other major colleges in between. Those charged range from Hollywood celebrities to top business leaders and even some college athletics coaches. In all, about $6.5 million of “bribery” flowed from wealthy parents to… Read more »

Ross claimed — both in a March 2018 memo and in congressional testimony around that time — that it was added at the request of the Justice Department to improve the Department’s voting rights enforcement. In fact, Ross was seeking the question well before the DOJ formally asked for it and his aides had actually pushed for the Department to make the official request. One person who… Read more »