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Who? Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) — House Majority Leader Ask a Pol asks: How worried are you by these special election returns? And this time in the president’s own backyard? Key Scalise: “Special elections are always unique because they’re very low turnout,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise exclusively tells Ask a Pol Politics. “The big election is going to be the November midterm and we’re lase...

Who? Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) — Speaker of the US House of Representatives Presser: Hours before President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order “instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, to immediately pay our TSA Agents in order to address this Emergency Situation,” Speaker Mike Johnson was irate after House Democrats opposed another bill to fund the Department of Homela...

Who? Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) — Member, Senate Indian Affairs Commitee Ask a Pol asks: Are you going to be supporting Sen. Markwayne Mullin to head the Department of Homeland Security? Key Luján: “Let’s see what we chat about. I mean, he has a big responsibility. His predecessor over there I think created a lot of problems. Problems that he’s going to have responsibilities unraveling, shedding li...

Who? Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) Ask a Pol Asks: What have you made of the pushback from NATO allies — like forbidding US troops from accessing their military bases — on President Donald Trump’s and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war with Iran? Key Marshall: “It’s time for Europe to put some jeans on, take their skirts off, maybe put some boots on and help the rest of the world out,” S...

Who? Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) Ask a Pol asks: Now that the Republican primary for the Texas US Senate seat currently held by Sen. John Cornyn is headed to a runoff — after Cornyn and his GOP allies spent upwards of $70 million ahead of this week’s primary election day — are you prepared to back your colleague Cornyn or his challenger, Attorney General Ken Paxton? Key Cruz: “I’m continuing to stay out...

Who? Rep. Al Green (D-TX) Ask a Pol asks: Why did you choose to protest during the President’s State of the Union address tonight? Key Green: “I wanted him to know and I wanted him to see it and hear it up close,” Rep. Al Green exclusively tells Ask a Pol . “ I wanted the President to know that we are not going to sit by while he disparages an entire race of people with these racist tropes.” Find...

Who? Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) — Member, House Judiciary Committee Ask a Pol asks: Are you worried the Second Amendment’s being attacked by members of the administration? Key McClintock: “I utterly reject the premise of your question,” Rep. Tom McClintock exclusively tells Ask a Pol Politics when asked if the Second Amendment is under attack from the administration. McClintock points to concealed...

Who? Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) — Senate Armed Services Committee Ask a Pol asks: What have you made of President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth…? Key Kelly: “The president wanting to hang me?” Sen. Kelly exclusively tells Ask a Pol founder Matt Laslo. “ Yeah, I take a little bit of offense to it, you know? And saying I should be prosecuted, executed, yeah, it’s outrageous. I mean, he...

Who? Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) Key Dean: “We either uphold this Constitution and call out the criminal, lawless behavior of this president and his administration, or we could be doomed,” Rep. Madeleine Dean lectured congressional reporters from the steps of the Capitol. ICYMI — Ask a Pol’s on YouTube , TikTok & Instagram Caught our ear: “Americans are being shot and killed. Journalists like you a...

Ask a Pol ~ interactive political journalism ~ what should we ask Congress next ? Who? Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) Ask a Pol asks: Is ICE escalating tactics in Minnesota? Key Omar: “They are. They are. I mean, “occupation,” I think, is a light word. It’s terror at this point,” Rep. Ilhan Omar exclusively told Ask a Pol Politics . Do you think it’s because of fmr. VP candidate, Gov. Tim Walz or is it th...

Who? Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) — lead Republican sponsor of Epstein file measure President Donald Trump signed into law* *Massie and his Democratic partner, Ro Khanna, authored the “Epstein files“ discharge petition, which forced Speaker Mike Johnson and other GOP leaders to bring the Epstein measure to the House floor for a vote. LISTEN: Laslo & Massie The measure sailed through after overcoming...

Ask a Pol ~ interactive political journalism ~ what should we ask Congress next ? Who? Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) — Member, Senate Banking Committee Caught our ear: “I myself have a nephew, I mean this kid was salt to the earth and now he tried meth just once and now he’s in prison. And it turned him into a totally different person,” Sen. Cynthia Lummis tells us. “He was the neatest kid. Yeah. And...

Ask a Pol ~ interactive political journalism ~ what should we ask Congress next ? Who? Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) — Member, Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs Ask a Pol asks: Has the “war on drugs” worked? Key Moreno: “Well, we actually didn’t have a war on drugs until the operation that’s being done now [in Venezuela and the Caribbean],” Sen. Bernie Moreno exclusively tells Ask a Pol Drugs . “We had...

Ask a Pol ~ interactive political journalism ~ what should we ask Congress next ? Who? Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) — Combat veteran; Armed Services & Veterans Affairs Committees Ask a Pol asks: Curious your thoughts on the latest Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “scandal” — but more so the strikes that we’re seeing the US military do without congressional authorization against drug cartels? Key Duck...

Visit Ask a Pol ~ interactive political journalism ~ what should we ask Congress next? Let us know ! Who? Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) Ask a Pol asks: What do you make of this Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “scandal” — some say extrajudicial killings? Do you think this is good policy? Key Marshall: “This is a war on drugs… as far as I’m concerned, it’s war. War is ugly. Americans don’t like to see i...

Visit Ask a Pol ~ interactive political journalism ~ what should we ask Congress next? Let us know ! Who? Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) — Speaker Emerita Background: After a handful of Democratic veterans in Congress released a video telling service members to refuse unlawful orders from their superiors, President Donald Trump tweeted, “ SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH! ” Ask a Pol asks:* Presi...

Visit Ask a Pol ~ interactive political journalism ~ what should we ask Congress next? Let us know ! Who? Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) — Member, Judiciary Committee Ask a Pol asks: After pulling out all stops to try and quash the bipartisan effort to release the Epstein files, both President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson changed their tunes at the end and said they were fine releasing th...

Visit Ask a Pol ~ interactive political journalism ~ what should we ask Congress next? Let us know ! Who? Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE) — Member, Senate Ethics and Appropriations Committees Ask a Pol asks: What do you make of President Donald Trump saying the US government owes him $230 million because of past Department of Justice prosecutions of him? Key Fischer: “Don’t know,” Sen. Deb Fischer exclusi...

Visit Ask a Pol ~ interactive political journalism ~ what should we ask Congress next? Let us know ! Who? Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) Ask a Pol asks: Do you have concerns about Biden’s autopen signing pardons at the end? Key Johnson: “ Yeah. We all should be,” Sen. Ron Johnson exclusively tells Ask a Pol . “It all speaks to the question: who was in charge? Okay? And that’s a serious question. “And aga...

Visit Ask a Pol ~ interactive political journalism ~ what should we ask Congress next? Let us know ! Who? Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) — Member, Senate Judiciary Committee Ask a Pol asks: Curious your thoughts on the new House Oversight Committee report Chair James Comer dropped this week, arguing many of former President Joe Biden’s end-of-term pardons should be voided because they were allegedly sign...

Visit Ask a Pol ~ interactive political journalism ~What should we ask Congress next? Let us know ! In our latest episode, Who? Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) — Chair, Senate Commerce Committee* Ask a Pol asks: Sounds like you’d welcome a Senate run from Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX)? Key Cruz: “Sadly, today’s Democrat Party has no shortage on crazy,” Sen. Ted Cruz exclusively tells Ask a Pol. About Ask a Po...

Visit Ask a Pol ~ interactive political journalism ~ what should we ask Congress next? Let us know ! Who? Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) Ask a Pol asks: Are you worried about what Democrats are warning about, these huge health insurance premium hikes slated to hit folks back in Iowa in the new year? Key Ernst: “These were expanded premium subsidies for Covid,” Sen. Joni Ernst exclusively tells Ask a Pol....

Visit Ask a Pol ~ interactive political journalism ~ what should we ask Congress next? Let us know ! Who? Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) In our latest episode, Ask a Pol asks: Do President Donald Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce over the weekend worry you? Key Mary Gay Scanlon : “Yes!” Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon exclusively tells Ask a Pol . “Well, I mean, it continues this pattern of going after th...

Visit Ask a Pol ~ asking your lawmakers your questions at your US Capitol ~What should we ask Congress next? Let us know ! In our latest episode, Ask a Pol asks: With Indian Health Service (IHS) being funded and federal workers promised back pay, does that kind of take the pressure off Congress just generally when it comes to this government shutdown? Key Mullin: “There is no pressure taken off of...

Visit Ask a Pol ~ asking your lawmakers your questions at your US Capitol ~What should we ask Congress next? Let us know ! Caught our ear: “ When you bomb you often don’t recover narcotics,” US Senator Tim Kaine tells us. “In at least one of the instances, there’s no narcotics recovered. It’s not clear that was what was on the boat. It might have been human traffick.” About Ask a Pol : We give lis...