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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 convened for one-minute speeches and considered…

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…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified at a hearing on his company’s use of consumer data. He answered lawmakers' questions on issues that included search results, algorithms, privacy policies, …

Lawmakers on a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee heard testimony on “back door” spending by federal agencies. Representatives from the Government Accountability Office talke…

On September 18, 1793, freemasons including President George Washington placed the cornerstone for the U.S. Capitol building in a Masonic ritual that included corn, oil and wine. In this pro…

Emory University Professor Carol Anderson chronicled the changes to voting requirements following the 2013 Supreme Court ruling in Shelby v. Holder. She was interviewed by Representative Jam…

The House debated and approved a bill that expedites Department of Energy permit approvals for liquified natural gas. Members also voted to meet with senators to negotiate differences betwee…

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) co-hosted a town hall meeting on countering domestic extremism and hate speech. Speakers included representatives…

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing with federal and state officials about ongoing efforts to secure U.S. election systems. Homeland Security Under Secretary f…

The House convened for one-minute speeches. Thereafter members debated 20 bills under suspension of the rules, including legislation to protect private property rights by prohibiting state a…

The House continued work on H.R. 6147, a fiscal year 2019 bill to fund the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the IRS among other agencies. Members also pas…

The House passed 14 bills dealing with foreign affairs, federal lands, and armed forces issues. Members ended the day by debating H.R. 6147, a fiscal year 2019 bill to fund the Department of…

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 …

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) shared his summer reading list with BookTV.

The House approved a bill that would make changes to the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995. It would require federal agencies to perform more analysis on their regulations. The bill also …

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…

The House met one-minute speeches.

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…

Justice Department’s inspector general Michael Horowitz testified at a hearing on the watchdog’s investigation of how the FBI and Justice Department handled its investigation in 2016 of form…