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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testified on her department’s student loan debt forgiveness program before the House Education and Labor Committee. The hearing largely focused on the Educati…

The House approved a resolution supporting a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The vote was 226-188. Members also passed a bill to restore Department of Justice oversi…

The House approved a bill combating illegal insider trading. Debate also began on a voting rights measure and a resolution calling for a two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian issue.

The House approved a measure that restricts robocalls, and members started work on a bill that bans illegal insider trading, making exchanges to the Securities Exchange Act.

James Jeffrey, the State Department’s Special Representative on Syria, testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee regarding U.S. troop withdrawal from northern Syria, Turkey’s infl…

Two House subcommittees held a joint oversight hearing on President Trump’s travel ban. Witnesses on the first panel included government officials from Homeland Security Department and Custo…

Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) spoke to reporters following a closed-door meeting of House Democrats to discuss the party’s position on an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.

The House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment held a hearing on the role community colleges, historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) and…

A House Foreign Affairs subcommittee held a hearing on the operations budget for the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Witnesses answered a range of…

Representatives Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) held a news conference at the Minnesota State Capitol concerning travel restrictions to Palestine and Israel. The news conference c…

Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and and Khizr Khan, a Gold Star father, and others discussed anti-Muslim rhetoric in political discourse. Representative Omar spoke about President Trump’s r…

Representatives Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) held a news conference in response to recent tweets by President Trump in…

The House passed a resolution condemning President Trump’s comments about four minority members of Congress in which he told them they should “go back” to the countries “from which they came…

The House considered 14 suspension bills.

The House began work on the fiscal year 2020 defense authorization bill.

The House continued work on a five-bill spending package, H.R. 3055, the Commerce, Justice, Science (1); Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration (2); Interior, Environme…

Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs R. Clarke Cooper testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Trump administration’s decision to invoke an emergenc…

The Congressional Black Caucus hosted a discussion on mental health stigma in African-American communities, ways schools can better identify and address students' mental health needs, and ac…

The House debated amendments to a spending package covering four of the 12 annual appropriations bills that fund the government and related agencies. This specific package includes money for…

The House approved a resolution, 229-191, authorizing the Judiciary Committee to pursue court action on subpoenas issued for former and current Trump administration officials, including Atto…