A man has been sentenced to five years in prison for causing damage to vehicles parked in front of parliament Christopher Sorkpa, 33, smashed the windscreens and windows of vehicles parked on the ...

House Democrats on Tuesday morning chose their caucus’s committee leadership for the next Congress. In one of the most closely watched of the elections, Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia was named ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., listens at an event, Oct. 22, 2020, in Fairfax, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin ...

Progressive darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 35, flopped in her bid to helm the powerful House Oversight Committee, losing to Rep. Gerry Connolly, 74, who is foreshadowing political ...

Rep. Gerry Connolly’s triumph over Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for the top Democratic spot on the Oversight Committee illustrates the limits of the party’s demand for generational change ...

In a report published by Punchbowl News last week, the outlet wrote that Pelosi was “actively working to tank” AOC’s bid and was “making calls” on behalf of Connolly. “Pelosi has made ...

What People Are Saying Max Cohen, of Punchbowl News on X: "Connolly's victory over AOC is the culmination of his entire House career spent on Oversight Cmte. Connolly's pitch was his intense focus ...

House Democrats voted Tuesday to elect Representative Gerry Connelly as the party’s ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, beating a bid from Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ...

Speaking before the vote to Politico, one House Democrat explained what appears to have been the prevailing wisdom: “While AOC is young, talented and incredibly inspiring to the progressive base ...

And that’s in no small part because the age gap isn’t the only divide at play here: Generational: While Connolly is literally twice AOC’s age, he is by and large not seen in the same vein as ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) will not serve as the most powerful Democrat on the influential House Oversight Committee after she lost two key votes this week to Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA ...

The race for the party’s top spot on the House Oversight Committee has been viewed as an opportunity for generational change in the Democratic Party. [email protected] Got a ...