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The House passed a suspension bill.

Top executives of Purdue Pharma, a U.S. pharmaceutical company that makes OxyContin, testified about their role in the opioid epidemic at a virtual House Oversight Committee hearing. The com…

The House considered several bills under suspension of the rules, including several dealing with veterans issues. Another named a NASA facility after the late astronaut Neil Armstrong.

The House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations held a hearing on the Biden-Harris transition and what could be improved for future presidential transitions. The witness…

The House passed a number of suspension bills, including a continuing resolution to fund the government through December 18, 2020.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on U.S.-Syria policy with Special Envoy for Syria Joel Rayburn. Among the topics discussed were Syria’s humanitarian crisis, refugees being…

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and others testified on U.S. policy in the Balkans at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. Witnesses also discussed the political and econo…

The House passed legislation to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. It does not change state laws on cannabis but says the federal government would provide some regulation for stat…

Representative Kwanza Hall (D-GA) was sworn in the fill the remainder of the term of the late Representative John Lewis. The House then debated the rule governing the MORE Act (a marijuana d…

The House Oversight and Reform Committee held a hearing on the 2020 Census. Experts in population data processing discussed the challenges in conducting an accurate 2020 Census due to the co…

Members of the Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on a report on the progress of their work in the region and to make recommendati…

The House passed the National Apprenticeship Act, a bill that seeks to expand apprenticeship opportunities.

The House began work on the National Apprenticeship Act, a bill that seeks to expand apprenticeship opportunities.

IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig testified before a House Oversight and Reform subcommittee on the financial condition and role of the agency during the coronavirus pandemic. Committee member…

The House approved two non-binding resolutions. One, by Representatives Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) and Denver Riggleman (R-VA), condemns QAnon and the conspiracy theories it promotes The vote was…

The House passed a $2.2 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, 214-207. Eighteen Democrats joined all Republicans in voting against the measure. Democrats brought the bill to the floor despite the l…

Amgen CEO Robert Bradway, Novartis U.S. Country President Thomas Kendris, and Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals CEO Mark Trudeau testified on prescription drug pricing before the House Oversight …

The House agreed to a resolution on forced Uyghur labor camps in China and began working on another coronavirus economic relief package.

Bristol-Myers Squibb CEO Dr. Giovanni Caforio, Teva CEO Kare Schultz and former Celgene CEO Mark Alles testified on prescription drug pricing before the House Oversight and Reform Committee.…

U.S. Agency for Global Media CEO Michael Pack defied a congressional subpoena to appear before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but five former executives of the agency testified about c…