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The House voted to increase the debt limit by $2.5 trillion until 2023. Along a party-line vote, members also passed a measure holding former Representative Mark Meadows (R-NY), who was form…

The Center for Strategic and International Studies hosted a discussion with democracy and human rights activists ahead of the Biden administrations Summit for Democracy on December 9 and 10.…

The House debated and voted on a number of bills under suspension of the rules, including measures condemning the abuse of the Uyghur people in China. Members also considered bills involving…

Former government officials serving several presidential administrations testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Afghanistan withdrawal. The witnesses, who served under P…

House Republican leaders held a news conference on the legislative agenda. The lawmakers blamed President Biden for high prices, supply chain bottlenecks, as well as a “crisis” at the U.S. s…

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and National Counterterrorism Center Director Christine Abizaid testified before the House Homeland Security Co…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee for more than five hours on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Lawmakers pressed him on several topi…

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and other Republican lawmakers called on Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to bring the House back into session during the August recess to address co…

House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Michael McCaul (R-TX), Representative Andy Kim (D-NJ), and a bipartisan group of other members of Congress held a briefing on evacuation effort…

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA) and other House Republican leaders spoke about the United States' withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover of the country. Leader McCart…

House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Michael McCaul (TX) took part in a Washington Post virtual conversation on the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and COVID-19 origins, inc…

The House considered 20 bills under suspension of the rules, including a measure to compensate CIA personnel who suffered brain injuries while serving in Havana, Cuba.

The House passed the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) process for Afghan interpreters, contractors, and security personnel who worked with the U.S. government in Afghanistan as the U.S. w…

House Republicans on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis heard from scientists regarding the origins of COVID-19 during a forum on Capitol Hill. One of the scientists was Dr. B…

The House debated bills that would repealing two Authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMF), one from 1957 and another from 1991. The entire debate can be viewed under program identific…

The House debated 11 suspension bills, including repealing the 1991 Authorization of the Use of Military Force (AUMF) against Iraq and a 1957 AUMF to defend Middle East nations from armed ag…

House Republican leaders held a news conference following their weekly caucus meeting.

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield testified on foreign policy and U.S. global leadership before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield answered a…

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified before the House Homeland Security Committee on his agency’s fiscal year 2022 budget request. The secretary was questioned about curr…

The House voted 268-161 to repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, originally approved after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.