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The House Rules Committee met to debate the $1.4 trillion dollar government spending bill. The first 10 minutes of the hearing concerned other committee business related to legislation d…

The House passed a bill that would allow the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services the authority to negotiate Medicare prescription drug prices.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and other congressional Democratic leaders spoke about the importance of the Deferred Action Childhood Arrival…

Dr. Francis Collins and other National Institutes of Health leaders testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee on funding and research efforts. They witnesses addressed the institu…

The House considered several bills under suspension of the rules. Members also debated a resolution to terminate President Trump’s emergency declaration at the U.S.-Mexico border, and they p…

Jonathan Hayes, the director of the Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), testified about the mental health needs of migrant children being held in the agency’s cus…

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee regarding oversight of her agency. Chief Provost responded to a ProPublica report that exposed a F…

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Matthew Albence testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee regarding oversight of his agency. Committee members quest…

The House passed a number of bills, including one that establishes a pension rehabilitation trust fund within the Treasury Department for multi-employer benefit plans. Another one sets human…

Peter Gaynor, the acting Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator, testified before the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee on his agency’s fiscal year 2020 budget r…

In a 230-195 vote, the House passed a $4.5 billion bill providing emergency spending for humanitarian aid and security at the U.S. southern border. Four Democrats voted against the measure, …

In a vote of 237-187, the House passed a bill to provide permanent status with a path to citizenship to undocumented individuals who immigrated to U.S. as minors. All Democrats and seven Rep…

The House met for Morning Hour, with members permitted to speak on any topic.

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan testified before a House subcommittee regarding President Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget request for the agency. He talked about and answe…

Labor Secretary Alex Acosta testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee about his department’s fiscal year 2020 budget request. Democratic committee members asked about what they sa…

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee on President Trump’s 2020 budget request for her department. Several topics were discussed including prop…

The House met for Morning Hour, with members permitted to speak on any topic.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Democrats held a bill signing ceremony in the Speaker’s Ceremonial Office. The ceremony came after the House passed a bill to fund border security and t…

In a vote of 300-128, the House passed a bill funding the government through September 30, 2019, to avoid another government shutdown. The measure includes $1.375 billion for a 55-mile U.S.-…

Democratic participants in the House-Senate Conference Committee on Homeland Security spoke to the press after the committee’s first meeting. House Appropriations Committee Chair Nita Lowey …