House Democratic leaders have compromised with moderates and muscled President Biden’s multitrillion-dollar budget blueprint over a key hurdle.
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Mask mandate reinstituted in U.S. House over concerns about delta variant
The House’s resident physician reinstituted the mandate in all House office buildings, meeting areas and the chamber.
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U.S. House votes along party lines to launch new probe of Jan. 6 insurrection
Republicans object that majority Democrats would be in charge, but Senate Republicans blocked creation of an independent commission that would have been evenly split between the 2 parties.
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House to vote soon on bills to protect Capitol in wake of Jan. 6 attack
The leaders of the Homeland Security Committee have reached an agreement on a bipartisan commission to investigate the deadly insurrection.
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House Republicans push Trump critic Liz Cheney from No. 3 position
The Wyoming congresswoman defiantly insists she’ll keep trying to wrench the party away from the former president and his ‘destructive lies.’
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Republican Sunbelt gains congressional seats as census shows population shift
For the first time in 170 years of statehood, California is losing a congressional seat.
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One in 4 U.S. House members have not been vaccinated
Democrats have rejected the notion from Republicans that a 75% vaccination rate is a sufficient level to reopen the House of Representatives.
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Bruce Poliquin: We must protect our sacred right to vote, freely and fairly
Changes that Democrats claim will make it easier for eligible people to cast ballots will actually lead to a less transparent, nationalized system.
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Minimum wage hike all but dead in Senate virus relief bill
Four days after the chamber’s parliamentarian said Senate rules forbid inclusion of a minimum wage increase in the measure, Democrats seemed to have exhausted their options for quickly salvaging the pay hike.
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Divided House Republicans face decisions on Reps. Greene, Cheney
Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Liz Cheney have antagonized opposing wings of the GOP as the party struggles to define itself.