SF Politics With Final House Seat Decided In California, Republicans Set to Have a One-Vote Majority Until Vacancies Are Filled California's 13th Congressional District has flipped from Republican to Democrat, and with that race settled, we now know that the Republicans yet again hold the slimmest of majorities in the House — 220 seats to Democrats' 215.
SF Politics US Congress Targets UC Berkeley With Antisemitism Probe In Wake of Pro-Palestine Protests Republicans in Congress are expanding their probe of alleged antisemitism in the ranks of higher education to now include UC Berkeley, after a late February lecture was disrupted by protesters.
SF Politics Lateefah Simon Commands Huge Lead in Primary Race for Barbara Lee’s House Seat Longtime East Bay congressional representative Barbara Lee was rendered a lame duck by Tuesday’s election results, but Lee’s preferred successor for her House seat, Lateefah Simon, crushed all rivals in Tuesday's primary.
SF News The Race to Replace Barbara Lee in Congress Is Heating Up Longtime East Bay Congresswoman Barbara Lee is vacating her seat in her bid for Senate, and of the nine candidates running to replace her, BART director Lateefah Simon seems to be pulling ahead.
SF Politics South Bay Congresswoman Anna Eshoo Announces She Will Not Run for Reelection Longtime Peninsula Congresswoman Anna Eshoo is planning to retire from the House next year, and she announced Tuesday that she will not be seeking reelection.
SF Politics Temporary House Speaker Evicts Pelosi From Her Capitol Office In what's clearly a petty move on the part of House Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry, Nancy Pelosi was informed Tuesday night that she had until Wednesday to vacate her office space in the Capitol building.
SF Politics House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Removed as Speaker Same Day That Laphonza Butler Is Sworn In to Senate Today was a momentous day that should go down in infamy for the House of Representatives, as a predicted outcome of the Republican Party's narrow hold on the chamber has come to pass.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi to Get Added Security In Congressional Spending Bill After Leaving Speakership A provision in the government funding package working its way through Congress ahead of a December 23 deadline would provide added security to former Speakers of the House — just in time for Nancy Pelosi to step down from the speakership.
SF Politics Meet Kevin Mullin, Who Just Won Jackie Speier’s Longtime Congressional Seat As Rep. Jackie Speier leaves Congress after 15 years, her peninsula and South Bay seat has been won by her endorsed candidate and former state Senate staffer Kevin Mullin.
Business & Tech Twitter Whistleblower Testifies About Breaches, Vulnerabilities on the Platform Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, the Twitter whistleblower and former security exec there who surfaced three weeks ago to tell the world that all is not well within Twitter's security systems, testified before a Senate Committee today.
SF Politics South Bay Rep. Zoe Lofgren Talks About the January 6th Investigation, and How Trump's Big Lie Bilked Donors Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren has, in the course of her career, been on the inside of the impeachments of three presidents, but she says that what the House January 6th Committee has been engaged in is still unprecedented for Congress.
SF Politics Rep. Jackie Speier, Whose Political Career Began at Jonestown, Announces Retirement at Age 71 "It's time for me to come home, time for me to be more than a weekend wife, mother and friend," said longtime Bay Area Congresswoman Jackie Speier.
Business & Tech Facebook, Twitter, and Google Face Angry Lawmakers In First Congressional Hearing Since Biden's Inauguration The CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were testifying before Congress on Thursday for the first time in the post-Trump era, and for possibly the last time before lawmakers begin debating sweeping changes to how they're allowed to do business.
SF News Nancy Pelosi Calls DC Shooting 'Despicable And Cowardly' House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Bay Area politicians have responded to this morning's shooting at a baseball diamond outside Washington, DC that involved several Republican members of Congress. Among those injured
Arts & Entertainment GOP Super PAC Ad Trades Cable Cars For Golden Gate Bridge After SFMTA Legal Threat This GOP attack ad out of Georgia is the gift that keeps on giving here at SFist, and today the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the super PAC behind the ad has swapped out
SF News Dumb Commercial For Georgia House Race Gets San Francisco All Wrong There is currently the most expensive House election EVER going down in Georgia's 6th District between right-wing Republican Karen Handel and Democrat Jon Ossoff. Both Handel and Ossoff want the United States House
SF News Three Ninth Circuit Judges Ask Congressional Committee Not To Split Up The Court Three judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals not the same three involved in the decision to uphold an injunction against President Trump's ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority nations last month
SF News Video: Martin Shkreli Repeatedly Invokes 5th Amendment, Calls Congress 'Imbeciles' By now we're all familiar with the man shaping up to be America's greatest heel: Martin Shkreli. Shkreli, you surely remember, is the once-hedge fund manager who made news for orchestrating huge price
SF News Rep. Barbara Lee Is Angling To Be Ambassador To Cuba Alameda County Congresswoman and hero to Bay Area liberals Barbara Lee is said to have a "gentlewoman's agreement" with President Obama to become our new ambassador to Cuba, should that actually become an
SF News Pelosi Confirms She's Not Retiring Yet House Minority Leader and SF homegirl Nancy Pelosi, remarkably not exhausted by the last year of bullshit in Congress, confirms this week that she will be running for her House seat again in
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Toddler Who Bargains Like The Tea Party CollegeHumor's Favorite Funny Videos Well, the Republicans maybe did not get to torpedo our credit rating and burn down Congress today, but they may yet still. Please enjoy this clever little bit of
SF News Pelosi Never Wants To Be Speaker Again We don't know if she's just being coy, but House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi just gave an interview in which she says that she's not interested in being Speaker of the House again,
SF News Nancy Pelosi Really Wants To Retire, Says Daughter According to daughter (and independent filmmaker) Alexandra Pelosi, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi really wants to retire from Congress, but her biggest donors won't let her. Now, perhaps we should take this with
SF News The Suspected Arizona Gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, Has a YouTube Channel The events today in Arizona were horrific and disturbing to say the least. Our hearts go out to the families of the victims, including federal judge John Roll, and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who
SF News DiFi Among Those Putting Breaks On Obama Health Plan Call it what you will, but hometown gal Nancy Pelosi's push to get the President's health care initiative through Congress before their August recess appears to be failing, and among those stalling it
