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After a prolonged morning of leadership elections, the Republican caucus of the North Carolina House of Representatives affirmed by acclimation Rep. Destin Hall, R-Caldwell, to lead the chamber as the Speaker of the House for the next biennium.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2024 @ 11:41 am
By: Kevin Smith
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On Tuesday, another Republican announced that he plans to retire early from the House, a decision that would further diminish a narrow GOP majority in the lower chamber.
Published: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024 @ 11:50 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Top House Republicans shot down the border bill that was unveiled in the U.S. Senate on Monday, saying that it was dead on arrival if it makes it to the lower chamber of Congress.
Published: Wednesday, February 14th, 2024 @ 11:40 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The GOP-led House failed on Tuesday to pass a bill to approve a $17.6 billion Israel aid package that does not include an offset that was tucked into a similar measure the chamber approved last year.
Published: Sunday, February 11th, 2024 @ 6:39 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Democrat-controlled Senate will refuse to consider the House GOP plan to send aid to Israel in its fight against Hamas, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced on Thursday, setting up a standoff with the Republican-led lower chamber.
Published: Saturday, November 18th, 2023 @ 8:56 pm
By: Daily Wire
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House members say they want to try again to get approval for a select committee on unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, now that the chamber has a new speaker.
Published: Saturday, November 11th, 2023 @ 1:59 pm
By: Daily Wire
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House Republicans may lean on a tactic used by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to push forward an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden without majority support in the chamber, according to a new report.
Published: Sunday, September 24th, 2023 @ 7:33 pm
By: Daily Wire
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said over the weekend that Democrats were “very concerned” over the prospect that President Joe Biden could soon be impeached by the Republican-controlled chamber.
Published: Thursday, September 21st, 2023 @ 12:04 am
By: Daily Wire
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said during an interview this week that the Republican-controlled chamber is moving closer toward an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden over allegations that he accepted millions of dollars in bribes from foreign countries.
Published: Sunday, August 6th, 2023 @ 5:30 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Republicans Now Have 25 Supermajorities In House And Senate Chambers Nationwide
Published: Friday, April 14th, 2023 @ 12:32 am
By: ENC NOW
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The North Carolina House released its biennium budget proposal this week as scheduled, and the North Carolina Senate is scheduled to release its version next before the two chambers meet to establish a conference budget
Published: Wednesday, April 12th, 2023 @ 9:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a press conference Thursday, Senate Leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore announced that an agreement has been reached between the chambers to expand the federal Medicaid entitlement program in North Carolina.
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2023 @ 2:15 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Tensions among Republican members of Congress are on the rise after Utah Senator Mitt Romney confronted New York Congressman George Santos in the House chamber prior to President Biden's State of the Union address Tuesday night
Published: Monday, February 13th, 2023 @ 5:38 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Members of the N.C. House of Representatives took the oath of office Wednesday, opening the long legislative session for 2023. Republicans have two more seats in the chamber this session
Published: Sunday, January 29th, 2023 @ 1:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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After offering the public unvarnished views of dramatic scenes during the House speaker vote last week, C-SPAN could regain control of cameras in the House chamber thanks to a new amendment being offered by a Republican lawmaker.
Published: Sunday, January 15th, 2023 @ 7:05 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The House of Representatives passed on Monday evening a set of rules that will govern how the lower chamber operates for the next two years under the leadership of Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
Published: Saturday, January 14th, 2023 @ 4:15 pm
By: Daily Wire
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After days of negotiations and 15 roll call votes, California Rep. Kevin McCarthy became House speaker early Saturday morning after reportedly giving major concessions to a group of Republican holdouts increasing the influence of some of the chamber’s most conservative members.
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 @ 12:43 pm
By: Daily Wire
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced a bid to unseat current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as the chamber’s top legislator.
Published: Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 @ 4:29 pm
By: Daily Wire
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) rolled out a new agenda for House Republicans that he said the conference will pursue should they retake control of the chamber after the midterm elections in November.
Published: Sunday, September 25th, 2022 @ 8:16 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has racked up nearly $50,000 in fines for not complying with the House Chamber’s mask mandate.
Published: Friday, June 10th, 2022 @ 6:40 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Chamber is NOT welcome back
Published: Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 @ 7:57 pm
By: John Steed
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Sources connected to the North Carolina House and the North Carolina Senate confirmed to CJ that they have firm commitments from enough Democrats in both chambers of the General Assembly to pass a final compromise with enough votes that Gov. Roy Cooper will either have to sign the budget or allow it
Published: Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 @ 7:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, was joined by House budget chairs Monday, Aug. 9, for a news conference outlining the chamber’s biennial proposal.
Published: Monday, August 16th, 2021 @ 3:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Now that Democrats control the White House and both chambers of Congress (however narrowly), they will probably approve a new round of federal borrowing to bail out state and local governments with shaky finances.
Published: Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 @ 7:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The House is wasting little time addressing the challenges COVID-19 has posed to North Carolina.
Published: Monday, May 4th, 2020 @ 2:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Now that filing has closed for the 2020 North Carolina state House elections, four main questions surround who will control the chamber in 2021.
Published: Monday, January 13th, 2020 @ 7:32 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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As the House pursues two articles of impeachment, here are the central figures to watch when the action moves to the upper chamber of Congress
Published: Sunday, December 15th, 2019 @ 8:44 am
By: LifeZette
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The Senate unanimously voted Tuesday, Oct. 1, to reject the House’s version of the 2019 Farm Act, which would ban smokable hemp by May 2020. Now, it’s up to the House and Senate on whether they will appoint conferees to sort out the two chambers’ differences.
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2019 @ 3:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper joined leaders from the North Carolina Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) in the State Capitol's Old House Chamber to sign a Statement of Support for the National Guard and Reserve
Published: Friday, December 7th, 2018 @ 3:05 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The $23 billion House and Senate budget compromise will include a 3.1 percent increase in spending in the 2017-18 budget year, which is higher than the two chambers agreed to several months ago when budget writing began
Published: Friday, June 23rd, 2017 @ 8:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Yesterday the rights of over nine million citizens were violated when a small mob formed inside the North Carolina House and Senate Chambers in an attempt to stop the duly elected representatives from debating critical issues
Published: Saturday, December 17th, 2016 @ 3:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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While the White House, the Democrats and their echo chamber in the news media denied that President Barack Obama had any knowledge of his then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton using a private, unprotected email server...
Published: Friday, September 30th, 2016 @ 10:56 pm
By: Jim Kouri
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North Carolina was recognized as one of the nation's leading tech states by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation during a press conference today in the Old House Chamber of the North Carolina State Capitol.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 1:37 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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After an 80-day extension costing taxpayers well over $1 million, the North Carolina House and Senate chambers have finally reached a tentative budget agreement with a price tag of roughly $22 billion - a fiscally conservative budget considering that spending increased by only 3.1 percent which...
Published: Sunday, September 20th, 2015 @ 3:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Everyone is talking about the $22 billion+ House Budget and what will happen to the spending plan now that it has crossed chambers and is in the hands of the Senate. Senate leaders will be meeting all this week to start their preparations before it is debated in sub-committees. We should expect a...
Published: Thursday, May 28th, 2015 @ 9:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The House Appropriations Committees on Thursday morning began releasing their spending proposals for the 2015-17 budget cycle. Carolina Journal will post links to the committee reports as they are issued. House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, says the chamber plans to complete the budget by the...
Published: Sunday, May 17th, 2015 @ 10:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It seems like just yesterday that eye doctor from Matthews and that portly fellow from Moore County were roaming the House chamber wreaking havoc, shaking down lobbyists and scaring children.
Published: Tuesday, May 5th, 2015 @ 8:33 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The House on Wednesday approved a bill that would shift next year's North Carolina presidential preference primary from late February to March 8. That chamber also nixed a proposed amendment to the N.C. Constitution that would have required a party's candidates for governor and...
Published: Sunday, April 26th, 2015 @ 11:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Our sources in the lower chamber on Jones Street tell us that the vote on the gas tax hike / "revenue stabilization" nonsense that passed the GOP-dominated Senate with flying colors will face much more drama in the House.
Published: Tuesday, February 17th, 2015 @ 9:51 am
By: Brant Clifton
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A House Judiciary committee on Wednesday endorsed the latest proposal to protect property owners from what supporters consider eminent domain abuse. The measure could go before the full House chamber Thursday.
Published: Sunday, February 8th, 2015 @ 5:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Incoming House majority leader Mike Hager is trying to open up the decision making process in the General Assembly's lower chamber.
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 7:44 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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