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“Are we not tired of hearing stories of victims? … When is enough enough,” asked Faith Mata, sister of Uvalde, Texas, school shooting victim Tess Mata, during a House Judiciary subcommittee …

The House Judiciary Subcommittee Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security held a hearing to examine solutions to gun violence. In this part of the hearing witnesses discussed red flag laws, as…

Former anti-abortion activist Reverend Robert Schenck and legal professionals testified at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the influence of politics on the Supreme Court. The hearing …

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and National Counterterrorism Center Director Christine Abizaid testified on global threats before the House Ho…

President Biden gave remarks supporting Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Representative Val Demings (D-FL) and gubernatorial nominee Representative Charlie Crist (D-FL). The event was hosted…

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Representative Val Demings (D-FL), candidates in Florida’s 2022 U.S. Senate election, participated in a debate hosted at Palm Beach State College. They debated…

The House passed four bills related to policing and public safety. One would create a grant program to help smaller police departments. A second would provide grants to states, Indian tribes…

The House Homeland Security Committee held a hearing on the resiliency of critical infrastructure, especially water systems. Committee members' questions focused on outdated water infrastruc…

Representative Castor and members of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis held a news conference to discuss the Inflation Reduction Act, which the House is considered and passed later …

Matthew Olsen, assistant attorney general for the National Security Division of the Justice Department, testified at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on national security threats. He answ…

Current and former election officials testified at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on threats to election workers and systems leading up to the 2022 midterms. The witnesses spoke…

“If you do not protect marriage equality, you are saying that we do not belong in "We the "people,” said Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in the case that legalized same-sex marriage natio…

A statue of educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune was dedicated as part of Congress’s National Statuary Hall. She is the first African American to be represented in the coll…

The House passed two bills. The first measure addresses mental health and opioid abuse treatment. The second establishes the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, focused on accelera…

FEMA Administrator Deanna Criswell said emergency management is at a “pivotal moment in its history,” as the average number of disasters per year has risen from 108 to 348 over the last 10 y…

The House passed a Democratic bill intended to reduce gun violence in response to a recent spate of mass shootings. The legislation includes measures that would raise the age to buy a semi-a…

The House Judiciary Committee debated and voted on the “Protecting Our Kids Act,” a package of gun control proposals meant in part as a response to a series of mass shootings, most recently …

The House Judiciary Committee debated and voted on the “Protecting Our Kids Act,” a package of gun control proposals meant in part as a response to a series of mass shootings, most recently …

The House passed legislation that bars price gouging for oil and gas. The measure prohibits price increases during national energy emergencies as declared by the president. In addition, it a…

“Pro-choice” and “pro-life” advocates testified at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on access to abortions and the impact overturning Roe v. Wade would have on that access. This hearing c…