Tennessee U.S. Representative Mark Green (R-TN-07) announced Friday he would not seek to be the next Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Jordan Loses More Republican Votes in Third House Speaker Vote than Last Two Rounds
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan lost the third ballot in the House speaker on Friday with more Republicans voting against him than the previous two rounds.
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U.S. House Judiciary Chair Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told reporters Thursday afternoon that he would in fact keep running for speaker and hold another floor vote, despite reports that he was considering postponing his effort.
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Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, failed in the second round of voting in the House speaker election on the House floor Wednesday.
Read the full storyTennessee Representatives John Rose and Andy Ogles Selected to Serve on the House Financial Services Committee
Tennessee Representatives John Rose (R-TN-06) and Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) have been chosen to serve on the House Financial Services Committee.
Read the full storyTreasury Department Has Distributed Fraction of Emergency Rent Assistance with Just Days Until Evictions Begin
The Department of the Treasury has awarded a small fraction of the tens of billions of dollars Congress appropriated for pandemic rental assistance since January.
The federal government has expended less than $3 billion of the $46.6 billion in funds given to the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program, the Treasury Department announced on Wednesday. The U.S. doled out $1.49 billion from January through May and $1.5 billion in June to low-income renters nationwide, according to a spreadsheet published by the Treasury.
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