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Pelosi announces select committee will investigate Jan. 6 attack
Democrats will control the new panel after Republicans in both chambers opposed creating an independent commission.
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Congress · 117th Congress
Yarmuth: House budget blueprint won’t veer too far from Senate’s
House Budget Chairman John Yarmuth said Democrats in his chamber may be zeroing in on a more than $5 trillion budget blueprint.
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Lawmaker on Vanessa Guillén Act: ‘When we have a system that fails victims, everyone is failed’
Watch the video for his full comments on the bipartisan effort and incidents of sexual assault in the military within his own district.
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Supreme Court smacks Congress on structure of Federal Housing Finance Agency
The Supreme Court ruled that Congress went too far in trying to establish the independence of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
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Pentagon leaders push back on GOP ‘critical race theory’ accusations
When two GOP House members bring up 'critical race theory,' Joint Chiefs chairman and Defense secretary fire back.
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House spending bill boosts Capitol Police, office budgets
The House Legislative Branch appropriations bill would significantly boost congressional agencies like Capitol Police.
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Earmark requests grow as House Appropriations panels begin work
House appropriations earmark requests have grown by $1.2 billion as the committee prepares to start releasing fiscal 2022 spending bills.
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Whitehouse bolsters push to shine light on ‘dark money’ at Supreme Court
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is highlighting a slice of government accountability that can be inscrutable to the public and unwieldy to describe.
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Military brass resists big changes to prosecution decisions
The chiefs of the armed forces are resisting legislation that would alter how the military decides whether to prosecute allegations of sexual assault and other major crimes.
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Speaker’s Lobby to reopen for the first time since the pandemic and insurrection
The Speaker's Lobby reopens to journalists on Tuesday, months after a shooting death there and for the first time since the pandemic started.
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Harris casts fifth and sixth tiebreak votes to confirm OPM chief
Vice President Kamala Harris cast two tiebreaking votes in the Senate Tuesday to confirm Kiran Ahuja to head the OPM.
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Senate voting and ethics overhaul stalls, but Democrats united in vote
Democrats could not break a filibuster to begin debating an overhaul of election and ethics laws called the For the People Act.
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Retiring Toomey looms large over Senate transport bill
The Senate’s surface transportation reauthorization bill may lay in part in the hands of one of Congress’ most outspoken critics of transit.
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Sanders budget plan would spend more, tax less than Biden
A budget plan under development by Senate Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders would outspend President Biden’s proposal by nearly $1.6 trillion.
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Democrats promise to do it all despite dissension in the ranks
Leaders are pitching a “two track” approach, one bipartisan and the other partisan, that they promise will yield legislative successes.
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Lieberman plans ‘head and heart’ appeal at DC statehood Senate hearing
For just the second time in recent memory, D.C. statehood is getting a Senate hearing — and Joe Lieberman is right in the middle of it.
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Capitol Police could run out of funds over August recess
Negotiations have not begun on a spending bill to cover costs stemming from the Jan. 6 attack, says a key Senate Democratic appropriator.
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House Republicans, Yellen spar over Biden tax proposals
House Ways and Means Committee Republicans clashed with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday over President Joe Biden’s tax proposals.
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Juneteenth is now a federal holiday, as Biden signs bill
Federal employees will get Juneteenth, after President Joe Biden signed the bill, which sped through both chambers of Congress this week.
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Interior deputy confirmed with broad support
An alumnus of the Obama administration, Tommy Beaudreau grew up in Alaska, where his father worked in the petroleum industry.