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The House speaker held a ceremonial swearing-in ceremony with newly-elected representatives. The event happens at the start of each Congress. The official swearing-in ceremony took place…

As the House awaited Senate action on on a spending bill to fund the federal government beyond the midnight deadline later in the day, members considered bills under suspension of the rules.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) and other lawmakers spoke to reporters following a briefing with CIA Director Gina Haspel on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. He said the…

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

A House Foreign Affairs subcommittee heard testimony from the State Department’s special representative for Syria on U.S. response to Syria’s civil war, efforts by USAID, and how Russia and…

The House considered several bills under suspension of the rules, including a bill to reauthorize the Coast Guard program and a bill to expand educational and professional exchange programs with…

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…

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified before the House Energy & Commerce Committee about how his company uses artificial intelligence and humans to manage content on its platform. Members of Congress…

The commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) testified at an oversight hearing on the operations of their regulatory agency. Issues addressed included network upgrades to accommodate 5G…

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection held an oversight hearing with all five Federal Trade Commission commissioners. They answered…

Officials from the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Trump administration’s foreign policy toward Latin…

A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee held a hearing to consider legislation requiring a uniform anti-doping and medication control program in horse racing. Representatives Andy Barr…

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…

A bipartisan group of members of Congress and administration officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, participated in a series of national security policy…

Republican members of the House and Senate met with President Trump in the White House’s Cabinet Room to discuss the ongoing separation of children from their migrant parents at the U.S.-Mexico…

Academic researchers and technology industry executives briefed members of a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on the potential applications for quantum computing, a technology under…

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 proposed…

The House passed a measure that would advance the federal approval process to build a permanent nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

The House considered bills under suspension of the rules, including legislation that would limit assistance for areas of Syria controlled by its government and a bill that imposes new…