SF Politics Yes, the Democrats Can Still Win the House of Representatives, and California Could Seal the Deal We interrupt your doomscrolling with a flicker of hope, which is that the Democrats can still win control of the House of Representatives, but they’ll need California to do it.
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 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 House Votes Against Censuring Adam Schiff; Schiff Trolls George Santos Over Video A House Republican effort to censure California Rep. Adam Schiff over his involvement in the first impeachment of Donald Trump failed on Wednesday, with a few Republicans even voting against it.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Takes First Official Steps Toward a Run For Congress State Senator and former SF Supervisor Scott Wiener is making moves in preparation to run for Nancy Pelosi's House seat next year, assuming she plans to retire, which she has not said she will.
SF Politics Pelosi Steps Down as Speaker, and Kevin McCarthy Fails Spectacularly In Bid For the Job Bakersfield representative Kevin McCarthy has just lost three consecutive votes in a row Tuesday in his bid to be Speaker of the House of Representatives, as Nancy Pelosi chortles and wipes McCarthy’s dignity off the bottom of her heels.
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.
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.
SF News It’s Official — California Is Losing A Congressional Seat Thanks to Latest Census Numbers The state will still have the largest House of Representatives delegation by far, but as expected, California will lose one seat under the new U.S. Census numbers.
SF Politics Congress’ Resident QAnon Loon Claimed 2018 Camp Fire was Started by Space Lasers A recent dump of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s old social media posts includes a 2018 screed that a cabal of Jewish bankers used space lasers to start the deadliest fire in California history, as part of a high-speed rail scheme.
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