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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, …

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 Foreign Affairs Committee considered legislation requesting the White House and Secretary of State to turn over all documents and records regarding the meeting between President Tr…

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 …

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 …

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 debated a bill setting fishery conservation and management policy for the upcoming five years.

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…

The House considered amendments to opioid-related legislation.

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

Current and former members of Congress and a student and teacher who were present during the school shooting at Marjory Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, discussed citizen movements …

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 ab…

The House approved a $15 billion rescissions bill. Members also began debate on a federal spending package for fiscal year 2019, including the Department of Veterans Affairs, military constr…

The House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force hosted a forum on Capitol Hill to hear from students affected by gun violence. The students spoke about their personal experiences and offered id…

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 pro…

The House debated and voted on two bills. One concerns the Columbia River power system, and the other relates to modernizing music copyrights.

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 sancti…

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, Russ…