House Speaker Mike Johnson scoffed at his Democratic colleague’s challenge for a live debate on the government shutdown as it entered its sixth day on Monday with no end in sight. Johnson shook his ...

The Senate again voted down the House-passed funding bill to reopen the federal government Wednesday. The 12th vote on the ...

Some House Democrats are less than impressed by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s (D-NY) latest play in their party’s stand off with Republicans over the ongoing government shutdown. In a letter ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries challenged House Speaker Mike Johnson to debate “any day this week on prime time,” as the country enters its first full week of a government shutdown. The ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) does not have any intention of debating House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) on the House floor as the government heads into its sixth day of a shutdown with ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has challenged Speaker Mike Johnson to a live debate on the chamber floor to be ...

On Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (February 13-16) 89.9 FM KCRW-Santa Monica and KCRW.com will broadcast NPR’s daily hour-long wrap-ups of the debate in the House of Representatives on a ...