The families of Americans detained abroad in countries including China, Iran and Afghanistan urged U.S. lawmakers to bring them home immediately. They met with the House Foreign Affairs Subc…
425 viewsSecretary of State Antony Blinken appeared before the House Foreign Relations Committee to discuss his department’s fiscal year 2025 budget request, U.S. diplomacy and global challenges. U.S…
235 viewsFederal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chair Martin Gruenberg apologized and took “full responsibility” for “deep-seated workplace culture issues” at the FDIC. His testimony came during an ov…
1,238 viewsThe House debated three bills. One condemns the Biden administration’s decision to pause a weapons transfers to Israel. Another would expand police concealed gun carry authority. The third c…
View in Congressional Chronicle330 viewsFormer U.S. Central Command Commander retired Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, who oversaw the 2021 U.S. Afghanistan withdrawal, told House Foreign Affairs Committee members: “I alone bear full milita…
11,496 viewsIn a rare Saturday session, the House of Representatives debated and passed four foreign aid bills. Three of those bills provide aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan, and the fourth is a packa…
View in Congressional Chronicle16,533 viewsThe House Rules Committee debated four foreign aid bills for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. Members discussed the merits of the bills. They also heard from other members of Congress who offere…
4,626 viewsThe House debated a resolution condemning Iran’s airstrikes on Israel.
View in Congressional Chronicle1,933 viewsZalmay Khalilzad, the ambassador who negotiated the U.S.-Taliban deal to withdraw military forces from Afghanistan, testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He said he held the …
2,074 viewsThe House debated legislation to bar the federal government from purchasing Americans' data from big tech companies without a search warrant, as well as three bills to respond to the Iranian…
View in Congressional Chronicle460 viewsThe House debated and passed several suspension bills related to Iran’s airstrikes against Israel. Members also began debate on H.R. 6323, the Iran Counterterrorism Act.
View in Congressional Chronicle364 viewsFederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testified on the Fed’s semiannual monetary policy report before the House Financial Services Committee. He said that economic activity expanded at a stron…
1,382 viewsState Department and U.S. Agency for International Development officials testified before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee for Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia on the Biden …
879 viewsMembers of Congress reacted to President Biden’s State of the Union address.
2,149 viewsThe House approved a $467.5 billion six-bill spending package funding part of the government until the end of the fiscal year on September 30. The measure would next go to the Senate, which …
View in Congressional Chronicle465 viewsThe House approved the debate rule for a bill that would eliminate all Biden administration restrictions on the import and export of liquefied natural gas. Members, however, failed to pass t…
View in Congressional Chronicle535 viewsFederal Housing Finance Agency Director Sandra Thompson testified before the House Financial Services Committee on rule changes within the agency and the mortgage fees it charges. She discus…
1,275 viewsFamilies of hostages captured by Hamas testified before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. Witnesses emotionally detailed their last c…
636 viewsJohn Sopko, special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction (SIGAR), said Afghans who worked with the U.S. during the war and remain in the country are being sought out and murdered…
348 viewsJohn Sopko, special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction (SIGAR), gave his opening statement at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the state of and conditions in Afghan…
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