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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen appeared at an oversight hearing of her department’s border security actions and immigration enforcement policies. Secretary Nielsen expressed he…

The House considered 38 bills under suspension of the rules, including reauthorizing programs that deal with flu outbreaks; a Senate-passed drug-pricing transparency measure allowing pharmac…

Treasury and State Department officials testified on the Trump administration’s sanctions policy. The witnesses discussed the implementation and effectiveness of sanctions on such countries …

The House approved the final House-Senate version of H.R. 5515, the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019.

Representatives of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter testified at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on efforts by the social media companies to filter content from their users, and to answer …

FBI Agent Peter Strzok, who was removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. elections, testified before a joint hearing of two House c…

Atlantic Magazine hosted a conference in Los Angeles on the meaning of “the American Dream” today and how it might change in the future. The series of conversations on the UCLA campus explor…

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray testified on the Justice Department’s inspector general report focused on the 2016 Clinton email investigation.

The House debated and passed the fiscal year 2019 Defense Department spending bill. Members also approved a resolution insisting that the Justice Department provide House investigators acces…

The House considered amendments to opioid-related legislation.

The House convened for one-minute speeches.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other House Democrats held a press conference on the separation of children from migrant parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. Representative Jerro…

Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) talked about the upcoming U.S.-North Korea summit in Singapore.

The House passed a federal spending package for fiscal year 2019, including the Department of Veterans Affairs, military construction, House operations, and energy and water programs.

The House passed the fiscal year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act. The vote was 351-66.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on his agency’s budget request for the 2019 fiscal year. Topics included U.S. diplomatic strategy, the pro…

The House approved several bills. One would change the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulations reform law. Another would allow terminally-ill patients to use experimental that do not yet have …

This portion of the Center for American Progress' 2018 Ideas Conference included panel discussions on the state of the economy and the rule of law during the Trump administration. Among the …

The House debated and voted on two bills. One concerns the Columbia River power system, and the other relates to modernizing music copyrights.

The House passed a bill that gives the Federal Reserve authority over writing certain banking regulations and limiting the roles of the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), the Federal Depo…