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A House Foreign Affairs subcommittee held a hearing to examine international child abduction. Subcommittee members heard from three parents who shared their personal stories of how their…

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…

Lawmakers worked on several suspension bills, including one that extends authorization of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief program.

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 assistant secretary of state for African Affairs, foreign policy experts, and Ethiopian community leaders testified before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on recent developments in…

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…

Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about U.S. policy in Afghanistan. She addressed questions about…

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

In remarks to the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center in Washington, D.C., Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended religious liberty and expressed his support for the Supreme Court’s decision in…

The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere convened a hearing on U.S. investments and trade with Latin America. The witnesses also briefly talked about the impacts of the…

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 voted on several bills related to veterans' issues that were debated earlier under suspension of the rules.

Representatives from the travel and tourism industries talked about their efforts to combat and reduce human trafficking. It was hosted by the Commission on Security and Cooperation in…

The House considered legislation to modernize Internal Revenue Service and protect taxpayer identity.

State Department officials testified at a hearing on U.S. policy in the Middle East. The witnesses talked about the Trump administration’s strategy in Syria, the Iran nuclear agreement,…

The House considered several bills under suspension of the rules, including measures to combat online stalking and increase the role of the financial industry in combating human trafficking.

The House passed a suspension bill, H.R. 4909, the STOP School Violence Act of 2018 providing grants to prevent gun violence in schools. Members also passed a H.R. 1116, a bill to limit…

The House passed two bills. One allows prosecutors to use state sex trafficking and prostitution laws to target trafficking websites. Another bill prohibits federal regulators from issuing…

The House considered several suspension bills, including legislation imposing sanctions against Hamas for using civilians as human shields and calling on the Defense Department to intensify…

The House debated the rule for three bills: H.R. 772, on nutritional labeling; H.R. 1153, the Mortgage Choice Act; and H.R. 4771, regarding small banking regulations. The rule also allows…