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China hawk Mike Gallagher bridges GOP’s establishment, Trump wings

Rep. Mike Gallagher never intended to be in Washington for the long haul.

August 10, 2021

Democratic lawmaker tests positive for COVID-19, despite being vaccinated

Rep. Sharice Davids is the latest lawmaker to test positive for COVID-19, despite being fully vaccinated.

August 7, 2021

Democratic Rep. Conor Lamb announces bid for open Senate seat in Pa.

Rep. Conor Lamb entered the Pennsylvania Senate race on Friday, becoming the latest Democrat vying to replace retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey.

August 7, 2021

Republicans use inflation as campaign issue as Dems seek to tout Biden’s economic agenda

House Republicans plan to make the rising cost of living a key messaging point as they seek to take back the majority next year.

August 6, 2021

GOP campaign arms attack Cori Bush’s ‘Defund the Police’ comments, her private security demands

Congressional Republicans are using Rep. Cori Bush's comments about defunding the police to accuse the Missouri Democrat of hypocrisy over her demands for her own private security.

August 5, 2021

Far-left Democrats emboldened by win in eviction battle with Biden

Progressive Democrats are hailing their victory in a fight with the White House over extending the eviction moratorium as a "turning point" in their often tumultuous relationship with the Biden administration.

August 4, 2021

Biden bends to liberals, gives renters another eviction moratorium

The Biden administration on Tuesday buckled to pressure from liberal House Democrats and announced a limited moratorium on evictions as landlords and tenants flooded courts across the country after a comprehensive federal ban expired over the weekend.

August 3, 2021

Progressive Dems camp out on Capitol steps, call for extending federal eviction moratorium

A group of liberal Democrats led by Missouri Democratic Rep. Cori Bush slept outside the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Friday night to protest the looming expiration of the federal eviction moratorium.

July 31, 2021

‘America First’ Republican seeks to oust Democrat in flip-flop Nevada district

Republican Sam Peters is vying to oust Rep. Steven Horsford in a second bid to return a Democratic-leaning Nevada district back to the GOP.

July 31, 2021

GOP border hawks urge leadership to drop illegal-immigrant amnesty from $3.5T social welfare bill

Reps. Andy Biggs and Brian Babin on Friday called on congressional leaders to exclude amnesty for illegal immigrants from the $3.5 trillion package of social welfare programs that Democrats plan to pass in a party-line vote.

July 30, 2021

Republicans question treatment of jailed rioters that supporters call ‘Biden’s political prisoners’

A group of House Republicans wants answers about District jail conditions for defendants charged in connection to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot following reports of harsh treatment.

July 30, 2021

Youngkin pledges $1.5 billion in tax relief from state surplus

Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin pledged $1.5 billion in tax relief from the state's budget surplus Thursday while unveiling his state budget plan in Richmond.

July 29, 2021

‘We have the votes’: Senate advances Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal

The Senate voted to advance President Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure package on Wednesday, only hours after a bipartisan group of lawmakers finalized the deal.

July 28, 2021

Schumer warns infrastructure bill is null without climate legislation

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer vowed Wednesday he would not support an infrastructure deal that doesn't aim to combat climate change.

July 28, 2021

House Republicans sue Nancy Pelosi in federal court over mask fines

Three House Republicans who were fined for violating the House's mask rules are taking their grievances to federal court.

July 27, 2021

House’s Jan. 6 committee opens with officers’ harrowing tales of attacks by pro-Trump ‘terrorists’

U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn told lawmakers Tuesday that things got racist when he called on the "insurrectionists" in MAGA hats and Trump 2020 shirts to turn back from the Jan. 6 riot.

July 27, 2021

‘You guys won’: Kinzinger chokes back tears during Jan. 6 hearing with officers

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans serving on the House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, choked back tears as he gave an emotional speech to the officers who testified before the panel on Tuesday.

July 27, 2021

Officers offer emotional testimony on Jan. 6 Capitol riot: ‘I could have lost my life’

Four officers who testified on Tuesday before the House select committee on the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol gave emotional testimony about being verbally and physically attacked by rioters.

July 27, 2021

Rep. Liz Cheney: Jan. 6 attack cannot be ‘whitewashed’; probe targets Trump White House role

Rep. Liz Cheney said Tuesday Congress must hold those responsible for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol accountable and warned lawmakers they must not let "vicious factionalism of political parties" get in the way of their chief obligation: "to defend the rule of law and the freedom of all Americans."

July 27, 2021

‘Patriots’: Trump praises Arizona election audit for sparking ‘movement all over the country’

Former President Donald Trump praised Arizona officials at a rally in Phoenix on Saturday, touting their 'courage' in reexamining the 2020 election results in an ongoing audit.

July 24, 2021