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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi outlined ideas that Democrats are considering in response to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

The Jan. 6 Committee investigating the attack on the Capitol will hold its sixth hearing tomorrow after previously announcing there would be no more hearings until July.

The hearing will be held at 1 p.m. ET. There was no information immediately available about witnesses.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., left, and Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., right, listen. Scott Applewhite) (J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON — (AP) — The House Jan. 6 panel says it is calling a surprise hearing on Tuesday to present “recently obtained evidence." The hearing comes after Congress left Washington for a two-week recess. Lawmakers on the panel investigating the 2021 insurrection said last week that there would be no more hearings until July. A spokesman for the panel declined to comment on its substance.

The House Jan_ 6 panel says it is calling a surprise hearing on Tuesday to present “recently obtained evidence.”.

The House Jan. 6 panel is calling a surprise hearing this week to present evidence it says it recently obtained, raising expectations of new bombshells in the sweeping investigation into the Capitol insurrection. Lawmakers on the panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection said last week that there would be no more hearings until July. The committee’s investigation has been ongoing during the hearings that started three weeks ago, and the nine-member panel has continued to probe the attack by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.

40 US House seats flipped to Democratic candidates following Kavanaugh's confirmation, including 27 where GOP candidates were previously leading in the polls.

40 US House seats flipped to Democratic candidates following Kavanaugh's confirmation, including 27 where GOP candidates were previously leading in the polls.

Several key, controversial laws here in Florida are set to go into effect this Friday, July 1.

A sequel to the original Secure Act of 2019 continues to advance in Congress, although not all proposals are guaranteed to make it into a final version.

— (AP) — Congressional primary runoffs with incumbents are rare in Mississippi. U.S. Rep. Michael Guest is seeking a third term. The Associated Press researched state records dating back to 1952 and found that no U.S. representative from Mississippi has been in a party primary runoff during those 70 years. Guest represents Mississippi's 3rd Congressional District, which includes parts of Jackson and its suburbs, encompassing the area where Guest was district attorney before being elected to Congress. Palazzo represents southeast Mississippi's 4th Congressional District, which includes the cities of Biloxi and Hattiesburg.

The landmark conservative Supreme Court victories this week on abortion and guns capped a year-long string of victories on the right.

SWAT team members with the Department of Public Safety fired tear gas from second floor of the old Capitol building to disperse protesters in the mall between the current House and Senate buildings. Stinging tear gas wafted through the building afterward, forcing the Senate to move its proceedings to a hearing room instead of the Senate chamber. The plan would open the program to all 1.1 million public school students. Currently about 255,000 public school students qualify for the Empowerment Scholarship Account program, although fewer than 12,000 participate. Democrats called it an assault on public school teachers that will scare them away from teaching about race in America but won't stop the students.

Decades of congressional gridlock on everything from gun violence to immigration to abortion rights have left a vaccum that a newly empowered right-wing bloc of Supreme Court justices have seized

Police fired tear gas to disperse abortion rights backers demonstrating from outside the Arizona Capitol Friday night, forcing lawmakers to huddle briefly in a basement inside the building as they rushed to complete their 2022 session.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — House sends Biden compromise gun violence bill as Buffalo, Uvalde killings prompt end to decades of gridlock in Congress. Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.

The bill passed the House on a mostly party-line 234-193 vote.

Congress passed the most significant gun bill in decades, with steps to limit ownership for young buyers and domestic violence offenders.

Scott Applewhite) (J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON — (AP) — A modest but wide-ranging gun violence measure moved within an eyelash of House approval Friday, a vote that would send the measure to President Joe Biden and illustrate progress on the long-intractable issue and a deep-seated partisan divide that persists. And while the legislation omits the far tougher restrictions Democrats have long championed, it stood to be the most impactful gun violence measure that Congress has approved since it enacted a now-expired assault weapons ban nearly 30 years ago. “No legislation can make their families or communities whole,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.. said of those victims. Top House Republicans urged a “no” vote on the gun package. The measure expands the use of background checks by rewriting the definition of the federally licensed gun dealers required to conduct them.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted the Supreme Court's abortion ruling Friday overturning Roe v. Wade, calling it "an evisceration of Americans' rights" and warning that "Republicans are plotting a nationwide abortion ban." (June 24)

Democrats believe that by overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court just handed them an issue to mobilize women voters in an otherwise difficult political climate.

The House is expected to pass legislation that cleared the Senate on Thursday that includes modest new firearms restrictions and mental health and school security funding.

Former President Trump says House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy mishandled appointments to the Jan. 6 committee. But so far, McCarthy's caucus is sticking with him.

The former Justice Department official accused of trying to help President Trump overturn the 2020 election lashed out against the FBI agents who raided his home.

"Pretty chill way to overthrow democracy," the "Late Show" host said.

Congress Guns Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who has led the Democrats in bipartisan Senate talks to rein in gun violence, pauses for questions from reporters, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. Senate bargainers reached agreement on a bipartisan gun violence bill yesterday, with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer predicting Senate approval later this week. After weeks of closed-door talks, Senate bargainers from both parties produced a compromise taking mild but impactful steps toward making such mayhem less likely. Top House Republicans urged a “no” vote in an email from the No. “This is not a cure-all for the all the ways gun violence affects our nation,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., whose party has made gun restrictions a goal for decades.

Democrats and 15 Republicans decided that congressional inaction was untenable after last month’s rampages in New York and Texas.

The first major gun legislation in nearly three decades would incentivize states to pass red flag laws and expand background checks for 18- to 21-year-olds, among other measures.

Former Trump administration officials at the Jan. 6 committee hearing Thursday said that Republican Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Andy Biggs of Arizona inquired about presidential pardons, while Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio talked about pardons, during the waning days of the administration.

TRUMP'S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IN TURMOILDay after day, Trump pressured the department leaders to dig into false claims of election fraud after the November 2020 election. The officials told Trump that states conduct their own elections, free from federal interference. At point in late December 2020, Trump asked Rosen what Rosen found to be a “peculiar” question: Do you know Jeff Clark? By holding back their electors for Biden, the disputed states could submit alternate electors loyal to Trump. "It may well had spiraled us into a constitutional crisis," testified Richard Donoghue, the former acting deputy attorney general.

During a public hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, former Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue said he told then-President Donald Trump that if he appointed Jeffrey Clark as acting attorney general, there would be hundreds of DOJ resignations.

At the fifth public hearing of the House select committee investigating January 6, Republican committee member Rep. Adam Kinzinger, former Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue, and former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen discussed President Trump's insistence that federal officials pursue a "wild, baseless conspiracy theory" about an Italian satellite switching ballots.

Former Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue testified before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection that then-President Donald Trump pressured the Department of Justice to declare the 2020 presidential election corrupt, despite no evidence of fraud.

"I sort of shudder to think what the situation would have been" if DOJ hadn't disproved Donald Trump's election fraud claims, Bill Barr said.

Youngkin, who was endorsed by Trump but did not campaign with him, called the attack on the Capitol "a real blight on our democracy."

A documentary film crew that the House Jan. 6 Select Committee subpoenaed captured former Vice President Pence’s reaction to reading a draft House resolution calling on him to invoke the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to remove former President Trump from power, CNN reported. CNN obtained the video Thursday showing Pence first saw the draft…

The Senate has approved a bipartisan gun violence bill.

The so-called EARN Act received unanimous approval from the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday, making it more likely that 'Secure 2.0' will clear Congress.

[Trump’s] attempt to corrupt the country’s top law enforcement body, the Justice Department, to support his attempt to overturn the election,” Thompson said Tuesday. The hearing is expected to feature one panel of witnesses, all of whom were former Trump administration DOJ officials — former Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen, former Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue and former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel Steven Engel. The next hearings set for next week have been postponed until July, according to an announcement on Wednesday. The House will reconvene the week of July 11, and Thompson indicated that’s the earliest hearings would resume. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, Illinois, one of two Republicans on the committee, will lead Thursday’s hearing,©2022 Cox Media Group

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Thursday concluded two days of testimony in front of Congress, speaking in front of House members.

Thursday's Jan. 6 committee hearing focuses on President Donald Trump's efforts to pressure Justice Department officials to help him overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Trump had the chance to back a Jan. 6 commission with GOP presence. Now he's reportedly furious that he has no allies to defend him in the hearings.

Kinzinger said his participation on the Jan. 6 panel had recently prompted a death threat.

Scott Applewhite) (J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON — (AP) — The House's Jan. 6 committee plans to continue its public hearings into July as its investigation of the Capitol riot deepens. “It’s our expectation that we will keep talking and trying to get her to come in,” said Thompson, D-Miss. Thomas has previously said she "can't wait to clear up misconceptions," suggesting she would comply with the panel's request to testify. The committee had been scheduled to conclude this first round of public hearings in June. ___For full coverage of the Jan. 6 hearings, go to https://www.apnews.com/capitol-siegeCopyright 2022 The Associated Press.

The House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection heard from election workers and state officials on Tuesday as it described former President Donald Trump’s pressure on states to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

A bipartisan group of US senators has proposed new rules on guns that would break a decades-long legislative stalemate on the issue. Backed by President Joe Biden, the package of initiatives was inspired most recently by massacres at a Texas elementary school and a Buffalo, New York, grocery store. Here are the initiatives in the deal under consideration in Congress, plus a status report on other gun-related issues gaining momentum:

A bipartisan group of US senators has proposed new rules on guns that would break a decades-long legislative stalemate on the issue. Backed by President Joe Biden, the package of initiatives was inspired most recently by massacres at a Texas elementary school and a Buffalo, New York, grocery store. Here are the initiatives in the deal under consideration in Congress, plus a status report on other gun-related issues gaining momentum:

Capitol Riot Investigation Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., gives opening remarks as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol continues to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Scott Applewhite) (J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON — (AP) — The House's Jan. 6 committee plans to continue its public hearings into July as its investigation of the Capitol riot deepens. For the past year, the committee has been investigating the violence at the Capitol and its causes, and has interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses and produced some 140,000 documents. The committee had been scheduled to conclude this first round of public hearings in June. ___For full coverage of the Jan. 6 hearings, go to https://www.apnews.com/capitol-siegeCopyright 2022 The Associated Press.

Placeholder while article actions loadA top Democratic senator poured cold water Wednesday on the prospect of a landmark bipartisan privacy bill advancing this Congress as written, dealing a significant blow to long-stalled efforts to pass federal protections for consumers’ personal data. Choose your plan ArrowRight Senate Commerce Chair Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), whose panel controls the fate of any data privacy bill, told The Washington Post that she’s not close to supporting a major proposal recently unveiled by Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate. AdvertisementLawmakers including Cantwell have tried to hash out a deal on a bipartisan privacy law for years, amid mounting concerns over the data protection practices of Silicon Valley giants, to little avail. The bill, formally introduced Tuesday, marked the most substantial development in the push to pass federal privacy standards in years. But Cantwell’s objections serve as a major hurdle toward the proposal’s chance of becoming law.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is pressing pause on its hearings for next week and picking them up again in July. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the committee, told reporters Wednesday that the committee would hold off on the two final hearings it had planned for…

Capitol Riot Investigation Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., gives opening remarks as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol continues to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Scott Applewhite) (J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON — (AP) — The House's Jan. 6 committee plans to continue its public hearings into July as its investigation of the Capitol riot deepens. Thompson, D-Miss., said the committee's Thursday hearing, which is set to highlight former Justice Department officials testifying about Trump's proposals to reject the election results, would wrap up this month's work. For the past year, the committee has been investigating the violence at the Capitol and its causes, and has interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses and produced some 140,000 documents. ___For full coverage of the Jan. 6 hearings, go to https://www.apnews.com/capitol-siegeCopyright 2022 The Associated Press.

Trump allies kept pointing to his underperformance against House candidates as evidence that he lost due to fraud.

The former president complained that Republican allies hadn't been allowed to sit on the committee so the case against him wasn't being rebutted.

Capitol Riot Investigation A committee exhibit is displayed on a screen as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol continues to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON — (AP) — New footage of former President Donald Trump and his inner circle taken both before and after Jan. 6, 2021, is now in the possession of the House committee investigating the deadly attack on the Capitol. The filmmaker said the footage includes exclusive interviews with Trump, his children and then-Vice President Mike Pence while on the campaign trail as well as before and after the insurrection on the Capitol. The footage is the second time the committee will be leaning on documentary footage from that day to gather evidence for its sprawling, nearly year-long investigation. The statement from Holder also stated that he will be going before the committee to provide testimony on Thursday.

New footage of former President Donald Trump and his inner circle taken both before and after Jan. 6, 2021, is now in the possession of the House committee investigating the deadly attack on the Capitol.

The Jan. 6 hearings, which had been scheduled to wrap up Thursday, may stretch well into the summer, a committee member says.

U.S. Capitol Police say officers arrested seven unauthorized people in a congressional office building Thursday night and charged them with unlawful entry.

The Senate has approved a sweeping expansion of health care and disability benefits for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan in response to concerns about their exposure to toxic burn pits.

ABC took home the crown as television's top-rated network last week behind two games of the NBA Finals series between the Golden State Warriors and Boston Celtics.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has announced his support for his chamber’s emerging bipartisan gun agreement.

Alan Grayson, the Democrat who represented part of Orange County for several years in Congress, is hoping to make a comeback.

Police have determined there was nothing suspicious about a tour of two Capitol office buildings that a House Republican gave to about 15 people the day before Jan. 6, 2021, when rioting supporters of then-President Donald Trump attacked the Capitol.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol has postponed a hearing that was to feature Trump-era Justice Department officials.

President Joe Biden has signed a bill creating a commission to study establishing a national museum on the history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.

An estimated 20 million people watched Thursday night’s hearing of the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

In launching its case to the American public, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection made a central argument: Look at the tape.

Angered by the unrelenting toll from gun violence, tens of thousands of people are expected at rallies this weekend in the nation’s capital and around the United States demanding that Congress pass meaningful changes to gun laws.

Audiences watching the first public hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan_ 6, 2021, Capitol riot saw one injured officer who slipped in blood and spoke of “carnage.”.

The House has passed a wide-ranging gun control bill in response to recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas.

Ballot printing errors have delayed election results for Montana's new congressional seat.

Parents of victims and survivors of the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde will appear before a House committee next week as Congress debates gun measures.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol will go public with its findings in a prime-time hearing next week, launching into what lawmakers hope will be one the most consequential oversight efforts in American history.

A bipartisan group of senators is considering how Congress should respond to the horrific shooting of 19 schoolchildren and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas.

The House’s top law enforcement official says members of Congress should be barred from carrying firearms anywhere in the Capitol or its surrounding office buildings and grounds.

The Florida Senate has approved a sweeping legislative package meant to combat rising property insurance rates and other problems in the state’s turbulent insurance market, creating a $2 billion reinsurance fund and writing new rules around coverage denials and attorney fees.

Florida lawmakers are poised Wednesday to give final approval to a series of changes aimed at shoring up the property-insurance market as homeowners lose coverage and face steep rate increases.

The conservative Catholic archbishop of San Francisco says he will no longer allow U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to receive Communion because of her support for abortion rights.

Georgia's senior congressman is facing his toughest challenge from Republicans in more than a decade.

A group of mostly Democratic congress members is proposing a binding plebiscite to decide whether Puerto Rico should become a state or gain some sort of independence.

The congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection sent a letter to another House Republican in an effort to learn more about a tour he led of the building the day before the deadly attack.

The House has passed legislation that would devote more federal resources to preventing domestic terrorism in response to the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.

Congressional bargainers have announced a deal on legislation to boost health care services and disability benefits for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Congress has bestowed its highest honor on merchant mariners who fought in World War II, almost eight decades after the conflict in which more than 8,000 of them were killed.

May marks Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a time in which we pay tribute to the generations of people who have enriched our country’s history -- and the ones who are still growing up, who will be instrumental in future successes.

Elected officials in Brevard County held a townhall meeting to speak with homeowners and discuss possible solutions for ongoing insurance issues.

The sponsor of a bill that would have subjected Louisiana women to murder charges for having abortions has abruptly pulled the proposal from debate.

Final congressional approval of a $40 billion Ukraine aid bill seems certain within days.

The Senate has fallen far short in a vote toward enshrining Roe v.

The House has emphatically approved a fresh $40 billion Ukraine aid package that beefs up President Joe Biden’s initial request.

Congressional Democrats are preparing a plan that would boost President Joe Biden’s requested $33 billion Ukraine aid package to nearly $40 billion.

If you’ve tried to buy a house recently, then you know just how wild the housing market is.

A seven-year fight to pass a medical marijuana bill may have ended in South Carolina when a House leader ruled the proposal would mean a tax increase and could not be considered.

Just a day after Democrats recommitted to protecting abortion rights, a U.S. House leader on Wednesday campaigned in Texas alongside Rep. Henry Cuellar, one of the last anti-abortion Democrats in Congress.

A U.S. Capitol Police officer has fired a gun inside a break room in a House office building and has been suspended.

A top-level U.S. congressional delegation led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has visited Warsaw to express gratitude to Poles for their humanitarian and other support for Ukraine.

The event at Hope & Healing Center on Eslinger Way is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.

Lawmakers vowed to continue investigating consulting firm McKinsey’s company after a hearing scrutinizing the company's for the Food and Drug Administration even as it advised opioid drugmakers on boosting sales.

Efforts to create a national Asian Pacific American museum in Washington, D.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is downplaying secretly recorded remarks he made about Donald Trump shortly after last year’s attack on the Capitol.

North Dakota’s longest-serving state senator says he'll resign following a report that he had traded scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges.