KEVIN MCCARTHY

Trump has for months dismissed Cheney's anger at his actions as biased and hostile. But, as she made clear in a speech Wednesday, there's a more logical explanation.

If, after the latest January 6 hearing, House Republicans persist in their policy of pro-Trump cover-up, American democracy is in dire peril.

Tuesday's testimony from a former White House aide may raise more questions about Rep. Kevin McCarthy's decision to pull GOP members from Jan. 6 committee.

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn national protections for abortion has set off a contest between Democratic and Republican lawmakers over whose policies would do more to help vulnerable mothers and children.

The comedian drops a blunt fact-check on what "pro-life" really means.

(Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP) (Mandel Ngan)NEW YORK — (AP) — As television programming goes, expectations were widespread that the Jan. 6 committee hearings would essentially be reruns. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy's decision not to participate gave the committee a gift, the chance to craft hearings as a unicorn of sorts in today's political age. Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Republican Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., question witnesses alongside one other member who is in charge of each hearing. The most pointed political messages come from Cheney, who has spoken directly to Republican Trump supporters even as she knows many are furious with her. He criticized McCarthy, who pulled all of his Republican appointees off the Jan. 6 committee after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two of them.

Many observers expected the Jan. 6 committee hearings would be nothing more than reruns, but they've proven much more.

As television programming goes, expectations were widespread that the Jan. 6 committee hearings would essentially be reruns. The five sessions have revealed a storyteller's eye, with focus, clarity, an understanding of how news is digested in modern media, and strong character development — even if former President Donald Trump's allies suggest there aren't enough actors. As seen during Trump's impeachments, modern congressional hearings tend to produce more heat than light.

The House Jan. 6 committee began its work under deep political skepticism.

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.

McCarthy pulled Troy Nehls from the committee after two other Republicans were blocked by Pelosi. Now, Trump fumes that there's no one to defend him.

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.

The former president is particularly upset that other Republicans have been unwilling or unable to defend him, according to the Washington Post.

McCarthy’s bet to exclude the pro-Trump GOP perspective from the Jan. 6 committee could prove costly to his potential speakership bid.

Calls from Trump for Republicans on the committee ignores the fact that there are Republicans on the committee.

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.

Trump said it was a bad call for Republicans "not to have representation on that committee" but denounced a bipartisan commission last year, calling it a "Democrat trap."

The House has given final approval to legislation to allow around-the-clock security protection for families of Supreme Court justices.

Last week’s televised hearing showed that there is a great deal that remains unknown to the public—and that Republicans could fill in many of the blank spaces in the record.

In the space of 60 seconds, McCarthy was asked five times whether President Biden’s win in the 2020 election was legitimate. From an excerpt of the reporters’ book:No, Trump says, McCarthy had not clashed with him over the phone with the riot still in progress. AdvertisementThat McCarthy wasn’t terribly interested in litigating all of this on the eve of Thursday’s hearing wasn’t terribly surprising. AdvertisementThe dynamic is similar with whether Biden is a legitimate president. McCarthy was among those extolling the virtues and necessity of some kind of significant probe into Jan. 6, according to the newly released Jan. 11, 2021, audio.

"I've never said I wouldn't participate," McCarthy said when pressed about why he's so far declined to talk to the January 6 select committee.

The former president also repeated his false claim that he ordered National Guard troops to protect the Capitol on January 6.

House Republicans say their report, expected later this year, will attempt to clear Trump's name by linking the January 6 Capitol attack to Nancy Pelosi, the FBI, Capitol Police, the National Guard, and others.

More than a year after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters, a House committee is set to begin revealing details of its probe.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol will hold the first in a series of hearings laying out its findings on Thursday night.

Members of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection are holding their first prime-time hearing to share what they have uncovered about then-President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

The Republicans wrote that they are unaware of whether a required letter requesting approval of James Goldston's hiring has been submitted.

APTOPIX Capitol Riot Investigation House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., heads to his office surrounded by reporters after House investigators issued a subpoena to McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers as part of their probe into the violent Jan. 6 insurrection, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 12, 2022. But he delivered a scorching rebuke of Trump after that vote, saying that “there is no question that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day. He reinforced his stance in a speech this year, saying that "President Trump is wrong. “Can we move forward without President Trump? Cheney has been the most prominent and consistent GOP critic of Trump — and she’s staked her political career on it.

Most every Republican lawmaker expressed outrage in the days after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

A Trump spokesperson said there's a coordinated effort among elected Republicans to defend him against any assertions made in the January 6 select committee hearings. But House Republicans have not publically revealed any clear plans.

The idea is merely to show a bit of green to voters in vulnerable Democratic House districts.

Chaos at the Capitol: A timeline of the Jan. 6 riot (NCD)The House select committee that is investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, will hold a prime-time televised hearing this week. >> Read more trending newsThe committee plans to hold public hearings throughout the summer, with the first one set for Thursday. Democratic Rep. David Cicilline, D-New Jersey, told CNN Saturday that “disturbing” new evidence would be presented at the hearings. Here is what you need to know about the hearings:What is the Jan. 6 committee doing? Committee members have interviewed more than 900 witnesses in the 10-month investigation and have received nearly 104,000 documents, according to an aide to the panel.

More than two dozen high-profile tech experts have signed onto a letter asking Congressional leaders to apply a skeptical eye to the booming crypto industry.

The plan shows how the GOP would address climate and energy issues if the party wins control of the House of Representatives in November's midterm elections.

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It relies on warmed-over arguments that have failed before, and in one case actually misquotes a top Democrat on the committee.

Was Nancy Pelosi right or wrong last year when she refused to seat two Republicans on the committee investigating the events at the U.S. Capitol?

In an 11-page response from his counsel, the House minority leader questioned the committee’s authority and claimed that lawmakers on the panel are “not exercising a valid or lawful use of Congress’ subpoena power.”

Scott Applewhite) (J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON — (AP) — Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is making clear that he will defy a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, escalating a standoff with the panel over his and other GOP lawmakers' testimony. “For House Republican leaders to agree to participate in this political stunt would change the House forever,” the California lawmaker wrote Thursday in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal with GOP Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio. McCarthy has acknowledged he spoke with Trump on Jan. 6 as Trump’s supporters were beating police outside the Capitol and forcing their way into the building. His defiance presents a new challenge for the committee after lawmakers decided to take the extraordinary and politically risky step of subpoenaing their own colleagues. It could refer the lawmakers to the House ethics committee or take steps to hold them in contempt.

Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is making it clear that he will likely defy a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.

Congress Lawmakers Guns FILE - Members of the U.S. Capitol Police Board, from left, Senate Sergeant at Arms Karen Gibson, House Sergeant at Arms William Walker, and Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger, arrive to meet with reporters ahead of the one-year mark of the Jan. 6 attack, at the Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 4, 2022. Walker says members of Congress should be barred from carrying firearms anywhere in the Capitol or its surrounding office buildings and grounds. House Sergeant at Arms William J. Walker voiced his opinion a day after a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers in a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school. “The Capitol Complex should be a place where no one carries a firearm unless they are actively engaged in law enforcement" or protecting officials or dignitaries, Walker wrote in a letter. While members are allowed to have guns in their offices, Walker wrote that additional restrictions apply.

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.

One of the last anti-abortion Democrats in Congress was facing his toughest primary challenge yet in Tuesday's runoff, while a staunch gun safety advocate ousted her House colleague in a fierce member-on-member congressional primary in suburban Atlanta.

The House Ethics Committee is investigating allegations that Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn had a conflict of interest in a cryptocurrency he promoted and engaged in an improper relationship with a member of his staff.

Rep. David Valadao (R-Hanford) infuriated Central Valley conservatives when he voted to impeach Trump. But Trump is silent on Valadao's reelection bid.

In this tale of two parties, it's the worst of times for American democracy.

House GOP leaders were among the 192 Republicans who voted against providing $28 million in aid to the Food and Drug Administration to address the shortage of baby formula.

Scott Applewhite) (J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON — (AP) — 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. “This war ended before most of you were born, but there was a sense of patriotism” among those who served, Yoho said. He was accompanied by another merchant marine veteran whom Yoho said was 101 years old. Merchant Marine provided goods in many different arenas during the war, including at the invasion of Normandy. The medal will be displayed in the American Merchant Marine Museum in New York.

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.

In their new account of the 2020 election, two New York Times reporters reveal just how broken American democracy has become.

Trump Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally at the Delaware County Fairgrounds, Saturday, April 23, 2022, in Delaware, Ohio, to endorse Republican candidates ahead of the Ohio primary on May 3. Pence rejected Trump's pressure and refused to try and object as part of his ceremonial role overseeing the electoral count. Former White House press secretaries Kayleigh McEnany and Stephanie Grisham have also appeared, as has former senior policy adviser Stephen Miller. McCarthy has acknowledged he spoke with Trump on Jan. 6 as the attack on the Capitol unfolded but he has not shared many details. The committee requested information about McCarthy's conversations with Trump “before, during and after” the riot.

House investigators are unlikely to call former President Donald Trump to testify about his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.

During a recent press conference, a reporter asked House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) if he would comply with a subpoena he received from the select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol. McCarthy is one of several GOP lawmakers recently subpoenaed by the January 6 panel. The reporter also asked about a tape recording of McCarthy speaking to Republicans, during which McCarthy said that former President Trump bore some responsibility for the January 6 insurrection.

A security meeting with the US Capitol Police is scheduled for May 20 to prepare lawmakers and their staff for the public hearings in June, per Axios.

On Friday, the subpoenas for McCarthy and the four other Republican lawmakers were served as the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is wrapping up its initial phase. “They have a duty to testify,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. “I don’t talk about what happens in the Jan. 6 committee,” she said in the halls, deferring to the panel as she typically does. The Jan. 6 panel has wrestled privately for weeks over whether to subpoena fellow lawmakers, understanding the gravity of the action it would be taking. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a member of the panel, suggested the decision was justified based on the seriousness of the Jan. 6 attack.

The Jan. 6 committee’s remarkable decision to subpoena GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other sitting members of Congress over the insurrection at the Capitol is as unprecedented as the deadly riot itself.

On Friday, the subpoenas for McCarthy and the five Republican lawmakers were served as the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is wrapping up its initial phase. McCarthy, in line become House speaker, brushed past reporters Friday, declining to say whether he would comply with the committee's summons for testimony. “They have a duty to testify,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. “I don’t talk about what happens in the Jan. 6 committee,” she said in the halls, deferring to the panel as she typically does. The Jan. 6 panel has wrestled privately for weeks over whether to subpoena fellow lawmakers, understanding the gravity of the action it would be taking.

The Jan. 6 committee’s stunning decision to subpoena GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other sitting members of Congress over the insurrection at the Capitol is as unprecedented as the deadly riot itself.

Some GOP leaders have been actively campaigning — or quietly maneuvering — against Trump’s picks in a way that could potentially threaten his sway over the party.

There are a number of options on the table for the Jan. 6 committee to enforce new and historic subpoenas against House Republicans. Which one it takes will show how serious the committee is -- and could reverberate.

This is an extraordinary step that is certain to further inflame partisan tensions over the 2021 Capitol insurrection.

Capitol Riot Investigation FILE - House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, April 6, 2022. House investigators said May 12 that they have issued subpoenas to McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers as part of their probe into the violent Jan. 6 insurrection, an extraordinary step that has little precedent and is certain to further inflame partisan tensions over the 2021 attack. Congressional subpoenas for sitting members of Congress, especially for a party leader, are almost without precedent in recent decades. The panel had previously asked for voluntary cooperation from the five men, along with a handful of other GOP lawmakers, but all of them refused to speak with the panel. The GOP leader soon made up with Trump, though, visiting him in Florida and rallying House Republicans to vote against investigations of the attack.

Capitol Riot Investigation FILE - House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, April 6, 2022. House investigators said May 12 that they have issued subpoenas to McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers as part of their probe into the violent Jan. 6 insurrection, an extraordinary step that has little precedent and is certain to further inflame partisan tensions over the 2021 attack. Congressional subpoenas for sitting members of Congress, especially for a party leader, are almost without precedent in recent decades. The panel had previously asked for voluntary cooperation from the five men, along with a handful of other GOP lawmakers, but all of them refused to speak with the panel. The GOP leader soon made up with Trump, though, visiting him in Florida and rallying House Republicans to vote against investigations of the attack.

The move marks a significant escalation in the committee’s efforts to obtain information related to lawmakers’ communications before, during and after the 2021 attack on the Capitol.

House investigators say they have issued subpoenas to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers as part of their probe into the violent Jan. 6 insurrection.

The House committee investigating the Capitol attack demanded testimony from House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other lawmakers.

Text messages and testimony released by the House Jan. 6 panel shows the deep involvement of some House Republicans in President Donald Trump’s desperate attempt to stay in power.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has assured colleagues he never asked then-President Donald Trump to resign over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol is redoubling its efforts to have GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy appear for an interview.

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

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren is slamming Rep. Kevin McCarthy as a “liar and a traitor” over recordings that show the House Republican leader, despite his denials, placing responsibility on Donald Trump for the Capitol riot and suggesting Trump should resign.

The next House speaker could very well hail from California, but if Republicans take control, that leader won't come from the part of the state represented by the current speaker, Democrat Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told other GOP lawmakers shortly after the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection he'd urge then-President Donald Trump to resign.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy had a “positive” call with Donald Trump, despite the release of an audio recording critical of the former president shortly after the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.

Just seven Republicans, along with most Democrats, used remote voting in the House when voting-from-somewhere-else was first allowed two years ago as the pandemic erupted.

The House has voted to hold former Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino in contempt of Congress over their monthslong refusal to comply with subpoenas from the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Home-district projects for members of Congress are back, sprinkled across the government-wide $1.5 trillion bill that President Joe Biden signed recently.

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North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis has endorsed a state legislator over U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn in the upcoming Republican primary.

Piecing together the activities of President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, is no easy task.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has unveiled a new policy platform for Republicans ahead of this year’s midterms elections.

Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska says he will resign from office, effective March 31, after a California jury convicted him of lying to federal authorities about an illegal campaign donation from a foreign national.

Republican lawmakers gathered at a retreat in Florida this week to plot out strategy for this year's midterm elections.

Republican lawmakers gathered at a retreat in Florida this week to plot out strategy for this year's midterm elections.

Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry is facing growing pressure from congressional leaders and Nebraska’s GOP governor to resign after a California jury found him guilty of lying to federal authorities about an illegal $30,000 campaign donation from a Nigerian billionaire.

Republican leaders in Congress are grappling with what to do with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is endorsing a primary challenger to GOP Rep. Liz Cheney in Wyoming.

The parents of San Francisco have spoken, and their message is echoing like a wake-up call across the country.

Democrats have muscled legislation through the House that they say positions the U.S. to better compete with China economically by strengthening the domestic semiconductor industry and shoring up strained supply chains.

Democrat Hillary Scholten says she will run for a newly drawn House seat in western Michigan, looking to seize the party’s best shot at representing Grand Rapids in Congress in decades.

The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge from House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy to the proxy voting system that Democrats put in place in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Thursday saw a closed-door huddle by an embattled President Joe Biden with his own party’s senators, apparently for naught.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is refusing a request by the House panel investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection to submit to an interview and turn over records pertaining to the deadly riot.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy’s refusal to provide information to a committee investigating the Capitol riot is deepening a standoff between the committee and GOP lawmakers.

The new top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee says President Joe Biden’s administration needs to ramp up military and intelligence support for Ukraine.

President Joe Biden enters the midterm election year of 2022 determined to address what economists call a “supply” problem.

A year after the Jan. 6 attack, Congress is more deeply divided than ever, and it shows in how lawmakers are choosing to mark the day.

Beneath the glare of television cameras, it seemed hard not to see the Jan. 6 Capitol riot for what it was.

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is planning televised hearings and a series of reports in the coming months to present its findings and bring its private interviews out into the open.

California Democrats appear to have come away with the advantage in a recasting of the state’s congressional districts.