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Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas says Congress should reexamine the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, calling it "clearly weaponized."

National outrage over the killing of Tyre Nichols has prompted renewed calls on Capitol Hill for police reform. But in a divided Congress, bipartisan reform legislation is unlikely.

TikTok has been under scrutiny in recent years about its privacy and security practices and its effect on young people's mental health. Various bans of the app have been enacted across the country.

The Chinese Communist Party is purchasing millions of acres of American farmland, livestock, seeds and food supply lines.

President Biden said Monday that his administration will end twin emergencies related to the COVID-19 pandemic on May 11, more than three years after they were enacted.

The move will restructure the federal government’s response to the pandemic nearly three years after the virus first arrived in the United States.

A group of House Democrats is urging the Biden administration to suspend all U.S. security assistance to Peru.

The Treasury Department has announced plans to increase its borrowing during the first three months of 2023.

The nation's largest police organizations are willing to work with Congress to revive police reform negotiations following the death of Tyre Nichols, but are not optimistic anything will bear fruit.

India’s main opposition Congress party has ended a five-month cross-country “unity march” in disputed Kashmir with hundreds of members of various opposition groups joining in a public rally in freezing temperatures.

"So you're just not going to answer the question I asked?" Margaret Brennan said as Kevin McCarthy detailed how the US representative democracy works.

The following is a transcript of an interview with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy that aired Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023, on "Face the Nation."

The National Prayer Breakfast is one of the most visible and long-standing events that brings religion and politics together in Washington.

The National Prayer Breakfast, one of the most visible and long-standing events that brings religion and politics together in Washington, is splitting from the private religious group that had overseen it for decades, due to concerns the gathering had become too divisive. The organizer and host for this year's breakfast, scheduled for Thursday, will be the National Prayer Breakfast Foundation, headed by former Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark. Sen. Chris Coons, a regular participant and chairman of the Senate ethics committee, said the move was prompted in part by concerns in recent years that members of Congress did not know important details about the larger multiday gathering.

No staff hirings on Capitol Hill are being more closely watched than those of Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who has been buried in controversy since his election.

Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has called on Congress to approve a proposal to move elections forward to late this year, a marked concession for the leader who has been facing daily protests that have left almost 60 people dead

It's the first time in history that the four leaders of the two congressional spending committees are women.

CatholicVote is pressing Jim Jordan to open an investigation into DOJ's efforts to arrest and prosecute those responsible for attacks on churches and pro-life centers.

Tips for the 2023 tax season: Don’t call the IRS on Mondays, triple-check for errors, don't mail a return if you don't have to, and other tax advice.

The GOP’s self-proclaimed “pragmatists” could soon have the most power in Congress—if they choose to use it.

"Our job is to make sure there's not an intelligence compromise," the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman told "Face the Nation."

"It is my pleasure to give you a 40mm grenade ... manufactured in the Sunshine State and first developed in the Vietnam War," Mills wrote in a letter that accompanied the grenades.

Biden's speech also comes as Republicans in Congress prepare for a standoff with the White House on the debt ceiling. House Republicans have threatened to withhold support unless measures are implemented to cut spending, a position that they ignored during the Trump administration and previous Republican presidents. The debt ceiling is the legal limit set by Congress of how much the federal government can borrow. Failing to lift the debt ceiling could lead the U.S. to default on its bond payments, potentially causing catastrophic effects on the economy. The environment then was similar to the situation currently playing out where a newly-elected Republican majority refused to lift the debt ceiling under a Democratic president.

Republican Senator John Cornyn on Thursday said it is "completely unacceptable" that the Biden administration is attempting to block Congressional oversight of the Biden classified documents scandal.

They plan to advocate for family-friendly policies, and support one another as working dads in Congress.

Sen. Wicker plans to use his first floor speech as the top SASC Republican to note the high importance of making clear the United States' interest in Ukraine.

Meet the Californian who will square off with House Republicans this year over congressional oversight of the Justice Department.

The decision comes two years after Trump's suspension on Facebook was enacted following the 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Rep. Thomas Massie was seen sporting a running national debt clock badge on Wednesday amid a fight over raising the debt ceiling and a national debt of more than $30 trillion.

Most freshman Republicans snubbed President Biden's invitation to a White House party for new members of Congress on Tuesday, with only 11 of the 45 new GOP members showing up.

Top state prosecutors are urging Congress to pass legislation allowing state prisons to jam signals of cellphones smuggled to inmates.

Sen. Josh Hawley has introduced a bill specifically named after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that would prevent congressional insider trading by members or their families.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy is reiterating that he will block Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell of California from serving on the House committee that oversees national intelligence.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy is reiterating that he will block Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell of California from serving on the House committee that oversees national intelligence.

As interest rates climb, Congress may consider capping annual percentage rates for certain debt at 36%. But other changes may be more effective, research finds.

President Joe Biden has hosted the Democratic congressional leaders at the White House.

Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) said she will not support Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (Calif.) effort to deny Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) a seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, making matters more difficult for the GOP leader as he looks to follow through on his pledge to not seat the congresswoman on the panel. Spartz also…

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sent a letter Tuesday to congressional leaders saying she's suspending the reinvestment of some federal bonds in a government workers' savings plan — an additional “extraordinary" measure to buy time for President Joe Biden and Congress to raise the nation's debt limit. Yellen said in the letter that as of Monday she also determined that the government “will be unable to invest fully” in the government securities portion of the thrift savings fund in the federal employees' retirement system.

California Rep. Michelle Steel and Tennessee Senator Bill Haggerty introduced the SNOOP Act to nix the IRS's new reporting requirement for online transactions over $600.

Why the legal scholar Rohan Grey thinks the U.S. Mint can defuse the debt-ceiling standoff

Democrats are picking an early fight with the House Republican majority over committee seats.

Rarely had there been such intense scrutiny focused on the House of Representatives prior to the first week of January as lawmakers struggled to elect a speaker.

A majority of New York voters believe Rep. George Santos should resign, and even a plurality of Republican voters would support the move, according to a new poll.

"The denial of seats to duly elected members of the House Democratic Caucus runs counter to the serious and sober mission of the Intelligence Committee," Jeffries wrote to McCarthy.

In total, Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft spent nearly $69 million lobbying the federal government in 2022.

New York voters hold a strongly unfavorable opinion of Santos, who has admitted to lying about his background and faces multiple investigations.

President Biden is scheduled to return to the White House following reports he ready to hire Jeff Zients, who oversaw the administration’s coronavirus response, as his new chief of staff.

Fox News host Mark Levin explains why the House GOP needs to change up the country's legal and judicial system in his monologue on 'Life Liberty & Levin.

In a speech delivered on Sunday, the vice president advocated for Congress to take action to protect abortion rights.

How federal elections are run across the U.S. could be upended if the Supreme Court adopts even a limited version of a once-fringe idea known as the "independent state legislature theory."

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says in an Associated Press interview that she expects Congress will ultimately vote to raise America's debt limit.

White House officials see enormous downsides to either negotiating with Republicans on the spending limit or trying to resolve the impasse unilaterally.

We have been here before. But this time the House's new Republican majority is largely driven by a faction that says it will hold the debt limit vote as a hostage to win policy changes.

The White House says President Joe Biden “looks forward” to sitting down with new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to discuss a range of topics, including perhaps the thorniest challenge confronting Washington this year: raising the nation’s debt limit.

A Border Patrol Union official says that agents would likely support the impeachment of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas due to the ongoing situation at the southern border.

In local political circles, he was known as George “Scamtos.” When a Long Island newspaper published the facts, why did no one listen? Plus, Michael Schulman on “Oscar Wars.”

After decades of silence, the military has started sharing info on encounters with things it can't explain. The new approach could have a huge impact, even if no new evidence of aliens ever surfaces.

Chase Neill, 32, of Lawrence, Kansas, has been convicted on a single count of threatening a U.S. government official for threatening the life of Rep. Jake LaTurner.

Aiming to curb borrowing by threatening default is both reckless and ineffective.

The amusement of such a candidate reaching office should not eclipse the horror of it.

A half century after Roe v. Wade, March for Life supporters are celebrating the dismantling of that constitutional right to abortion and heralding the political struggle set loose by the Supreme Court's decision.

The federal government is on the brink of hitting its legal borrowing limit on Thursday.

President Joe Biden plans to deliver his second State of the Union address on Feb. 7.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has notified Congress that the U.S. is projected to reach its debt limit on Thursday and will then resort to “extraordinary measures” to avoid default.

The University of Wisconsin System has joined a number of universities across the country in banning the popular social media app TikTok on school devicies.

For months, the outlook for the U.S. economy has been a mostly bleak one: Inflation hitting a four-decade high, consumer spending weakening, interest rates surging.

The federal government is on track to max out on its $31.4 trillion borrowing authority as soon as this month.

House Republicans have began their tenure in the majority by passing a bill that would rescind nearly $71 billion that Congress had provided the IRS.

Lawmakers no longer have to walk through metal detectors before gaining access to the House floor.

Republican Kevin McCarthy is the new House speaker, but it took days and days, and 15 roll call votes, ending early Saturday.

Six GOP members-elect remain opposed to Rep. Kevin McCarthy going into a late-night vote to determine the next speaker of the House.

The process of organizing the House of Representatives stretched into its fourth day Friday -- something not seen in the United States in more than a century and a half -- with Kevin McCarthy making a little more headway but not enough to officially secure the House.

After three days of voting, we are in the midst of the longest contest for U.S. Speaker of the House in 164 years.

President Joe Biden has conferred high honors on those who stood against the Jan. 6 Capitol mob two years ago and the menacing effort in state after state to upend the election.

What others see as dysfunction and chaos, many of Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s opponents see as democracy at work.

It’s 2023, so that means a new speaker of the House must be elected by Congress, but it seems that Republicans can’t figure out who to elect after two days of voting.

As Republicans squabble over who will be the next speaker, there are essentially no members in the U.S. House of Representatives — only members-elect.

The chaos in the U.S. House of Representatives continues Wednesday as Congress still doesn’t have a Speaker of the House following numerous votes.

The Republicans opposing Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s bid to become the next House speaker generally have made their mark as part of the GOP’s ultra conservative wing.

The religious makeup of the incoming 118th Congress looks more like what America used to be than what it is today.

Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said late Tuesday there’s no scenario in which he’ll drop his bid to become House speaker despite failing to win multiple rounds of voting, a historic defeat that brought the first day of the new Congress to an abrupt, messy end.

Ohio Democrat Marcy Kaptur is set to become the longest-serving woman in congressional history when the U.S. House convenes Tuesday.

Even as the House GOP leadership keeps silent, a veteran Republican lawmaker says George Santos should consider resigning after the congressman-elect from New York admitted to lying about his heritage, education and professional career.

Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been sworn in as president in the capital, Brasilia, assuming office for the third time after thwarting outgoing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro’s reelection bid.

Thousands of refugees who fled Afghanistan and now live in the United States are facing an uncertain future.

President Joe Biden has signed a $1.7 trillion bill funding government operations through September 2023, the end of the federal budget year.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has become one of the first Democratic governors to ban the use of TikTok on state-issued devices.

Consumer Reports says there are other ways to take advantage of the Inflation Reduction Act by "going green" on your next home improvement project.

Members of India’s main opposition Congress party and thousands of supporters have walked into New Delhi as part of a cross-country “unity march” seeking to challenge what they say is a “hate-filled” version of the country under the Hindu nationalist government.

The 117th Congress opened with the unfathomable Jan. 6, 2021, mob siege of the Capitol.

Congress has passed changes to the arcane law that controls how it ratifies the winner of a presidential election.

The drawn-out saga of Title 42 has been chaotic at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Democratic-led House has passed a $1.7 trillion government spending bill.

U.S. military forces around the world will no longer be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

The House Jan. 6 committee has released its final report on the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

On the heels of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s emotional appeal for continued U.S. support, Congress is set to ensure the money keeps flowing for years, even after Republicans take control of the House.

The Senate has passed a $1.7 trillion bill to finance federal agencies through September, aid Ukraine and provide assistance to communities recovering from hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters.

An IRS policy governing the audits of tax returns filed by U.S. presidents is under new scrutiny.

The House has unanimously passed a bill posthumously awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager murdered by white supremacists in the 1950s, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.

Momentum toward passing a $1.7 trillion government funding bill with more aid for Ukraine has slowed considerably as lawmakers struggle to reach an agreement on amendments to the bill.