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The House will continue work on 2025 defense programs and policy legislation (NDAA).
View in Congressional Chronicle361 viewsThe House will continue work on 2025 defense programs and policy legislation (NDAA).
View in Congressional Chronicle361 viewsDirector of National Intelligence Avril Haines, CIA Director Bill Burns, and FBI Director Christopher Wray joined other leaders from the intelligence community to testify on worldwide threat…
3,060 viewsHouse and Senate Democrats speoke with reporters about efforts to pass an aid package for Ukraine. They were joined by former National Security Council official Alexander Vindman and several…
1,015 viewsHouse Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and other House Democrats held a news conference on a $95 billion aid package to Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel. Leader Jeffries said that “all opti…
1,954 viewsRetired General and Former CIA Director David Petraeus along with other former intelligence community officials testified before the House Intelligence Committee. They discussed U.S. relatio…
3,489 viewsThe House debated a bill that prohibits the drawdown of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve until the Department of Energy develops a plan to increase the percentage of federal la…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,380 viewsThe House approved the final version of marriage equality legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriage under federal law. The bill would next go to President Biden. Members also …
View in Congressional Chronicle3,599 viewsThe House considered 12 bills under suspension of the rules, including legislation to reauthorize water projects by the Army Corps of Engineers under the Water Resources Development Act (WRD…
View in Congressional Chronicle598 viewsDeputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman testified at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on U.S. policy in the Indo-Pacific region. Topics included the U.S. competition with China, the…
740 viewsThe House voted 220-203 to hold former Trump administration advisers Dan Scavino and Peter Navarro in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with subpoenas issued by the Select Committe…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,618 viewsThe House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe held a hearing on suspected war crimes and other human rights abuses allegedly committed by Russia during its invasion of Ukraine. Experts wi…
918 viewsFormer government officials serving several presidential administrations testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Afghanistan withdrawal. The witnesses, who served under P…
953 viewsTwo subcommittees of the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a joint hearing on examining the United States global climate change policy and strategy.
477 viewsSecretary 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…
9,044 viewsThe 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…
View in Congressional Chronicle19,623 viewsU.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…
687 viewsZalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation, testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Biden administration’s strategy in Afghanistan. …
1,557 viewsSecretary of State Antony Blinken testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Biden administration’s foreign policy agenda. Members asked a range of questions on future relat…
139,541 viewsState Department officials testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the firing of the agency’s inspector general, Steve Linick. Witnesses included Undersecretary of State for …
2,085 viewsThe House considered several suspension bills, including a measure requiring all annual federal agency budget and appropriations requests to be made public.
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