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Friday’s vote was an early test of unity for House Republicans, who have a thin majority. Lawmakers had proposed a score of potential amendments to the bill, including provisions that target transgender students.

President Joe Biden’s signature on a measure nullifying the recent overhaul of the District of Columbia criminal code marked the end of one bruising public fight between Congress and local lawmakers. But the bigger battle is only just beginning. Already House Republicans are promising a season of direct congressional intervention in local affairs. House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer,...

The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability plans to hold a hearing later this month on D.C. crime and has requested several city officials to testify. Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky, sent letters Wednesday to D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson, Councilmember Charles Allen, D.C. Chief Financial Officer Glen Lee and Greggory Pemberton, chairman of the D.C. Police Union....

The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability is calling for D.C. leaders to testify at a hearing on crime in the city. News4’s Mark Segraves reports two prominent officials have not been invited to the hearing.

In back-to-back votes, the House voted Thursday to overturn a sweeping rewrite of the criminal code passed by the D.C. Council last year and a new law that would grant noncitizens the right to vote in local elections. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

The Republican-held House has launched the first salvo in what could be a long-running feud with the District of Columbia over self-government in the nation’s capital. In back-to-back votes, the House voted to overturn a sweeping rewrite of the criminal code passed by the City Council last year and a new local law that grants noncitizens the right to vote...

When Republicans howled in protests during the State of the Union over President Biden’s suggestion that the GOP wanted to slash Medicare and Medicaid, it showcased a stunning turnaround for the Republican Party that built a brand on doing just that.

House Republicans have taken the first procedural step to try to block two new D.C. laws from taking effect. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

President Joe Biden spoke Thursday to celebrate the easing inflation rates after the Consumer Price Index showed a dip to 6.5%.

The House stalemate over choosing a new speaker has held firm through a long, excruciating third day and evening of voting with no conclusion. But glimmers of a deal began to emerge late Thursday. Party leader Kevin McCarthy is determined to win over enough fellow Republicans. He has offered the conservative holdouts rule changes to give them more power to...

As Republicans struggled for a second day to elect a House speaker, Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida emerged as the choice of conservative holdouts who are refusing to support Kevin McCarthy’s bid.

House Republicans plowed through the second day of the new Congress, with no clear off-ramp from their political chaos over electing leader Kevin McCarthy as the new speaker. A Wednesday night session was initially planned, but they instead gave up amid a shouting, crowded vote to adjourn. After lengthy closed-door meetings with conservative holdouts, McCarthy said more voting would not...

After four contentious days of voting, negotiations and Republican infighting, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was voted in as House speaker early Saturday morning.

Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has fallen far short in voting to become House speaker.

Few Americans – including Democrats, Republicans, and voters of color – expressed a desire to put South Carolina or Nevada at the front of the primary line in a new LX News/Morning Consult poll.

Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s left the Democrat Party and registered as an independent. Here’s what that means for the the balance of power in the Senate.

Republicans are getting ready to investigate President Joe Biden’s son Hunter next year when they take control of the U.S. House.

Republicans in battleground states and elsewhere — bruised by sweeping losses for a third straight election — are casting blame in a direction they were once reluctant to point: toward former President Donald Trump.

The Democrats retained control of the Senate after Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto defeated Republican Adam Laxalt in Nevada.

President Joe Biden spoke Wednesday to celebrate the Democrats’ strong performance in the 2022 midterm elections, pledging to continue to reach across the aisle to pass bipartisan legislation.