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The final farewells to the late U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings began Wednesday in Baltimore, where constituents, family members, elected officials and others remembered the Maryland congressman for working tirelessly and fearlessly for social justice from childhood until his death.

U.S. House members are trying to block the transfer of U.S. Department of Agriculture jobs from D.C. to Kansas even though some of the move has already begun. Scott MacFarlane reports.

Flags with 51 stars have been lining Pennsylvania Avenue NW, intended to send a message to Congress and the rest of the country.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and a bus full of veterans flew 51-star flags on Monday to call for Congress to make the District the nation’s 51st state News4’s Mark Segraves reports. 

Fishermen insisted Monday to a congressional subcommittee looking at offshore wind energy that they be consulted when crucial decisions are being made on the development of such projects, including where they are located and the level of access to the waters near them. Fishermen should have been brought into the planning process from the start, Peter Hughes, of Atlantic Cape...

The U.S. House is preparing to hold its first full committee hearing since 1993 for a bill proposing to recognize Washington, D.C., as the nation’s 51st state.

Leaders of the troubled Washington DC VA Medical Center told Congress they’re suffering major staffing shortages but insisted they are making needed improvements. Reporting by the News4 I-Team led to a formal U.S. House hearing Thursday. Scott MacFarlane reports.

A breakthrough for thousands of government staffers in our area: Scott MacFarlane learned the U.S. House is considering a new system for paid family leave. The I-Team revealed there’s no required paid leave system in Congress, and some offices offer little to none for new mothers and fathers.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is being honored with the 2019 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.

Iowa voters sent a record number of women to the Legislature during last year’s midterms. Women won two of the state’s most competitive U.S. House races, and a woman was elected governor for the first time. Yet across Iowa, there’s palpable anxiety among some Democratic women about nominating a female candidate to face off against President Donald Trump next year....

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been named the recipient of the 2019 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.

Former Rep. Ralph Hall, a political survivor whose career mirrored the massive partisan shift that marked the last 50 years of Texas politics and made him the oldest person to ever serve in the U.S. House, died Thursday. He was 95.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has agreed to deliver a classified briefing to U.S. House lawmakers on Thursday on his recent decision to lift sanctions on companies linked to a Russian oligarch and Vladimir Putin ally, marking the start of an aggressive new focus on Mnuchin by newly empowered House Democrats, according to two top Democratic aides. Read More

The Senate voted unanimously Thursday to create an alert system for missing adults who are too old for Amber alerts but not old enough for Silver alerts.

Virginia already sends alerts about missing adults. Now, the U.S. Congress is close to passing a bill to do the same. The Ashanti Alerts are named after Ashanti Billie, who was abducted. News4’s Tracee Wilkins reports.

A Democrat who finished behind Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin in the first round of balloting has come from behind to flip the seat in the second of its two U.S. House races. Election officials declared Golden the winner Thursday after a federal judge denied Poliquin’s request to halt tabulations under Maine’s new voting system.

The U.S. House race in Maine between GOP Rep. Bruce Poliquin and Democrat Jared Golden is headed to ranked-choice count. Additional tabulations under Maine’s new voting system are needed to determine the winner of Maine’s 2nd Congressional District race between Poliquin and Golden. Neither candidate collected a majority of first-place votes under Maine’s ranked-choice voting system, which was used for...

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine has defeated GOP challenger Corey Stewart in the midterm elections to secure a second term.

Democrat David Trone has been elected to Maryland’s only open House seat, defeating Republican Amie Hoeber. Voters also re-elected the state’s only Republican representative, Andy Harris.

A closely watched race in Northern Virginia could give the nation an early sign of whether House seats will flip from red to blue. In the final hours before Election Day, Democrats are rallying to try to fire up voters while Republicans burned up the phone bank after a day of door knocking. News4’s Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie...