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U.S. House of Representatives

Published
September 21, 2021

House races to vote on government funding, debt as Republicans dig in to oppose

Once a routine matter, now Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is refusing to provide Republican votes, even though he also relied on Democratic votes help raise the debt ceiling when his party had the majority.
Published
August 24, 2021

House passes $3.5 trillion budget after deal with moderates

House Democratic leaders have compromised with moderates and muscled President Biden’s multitrillion-dollar budget blueprint over a key hurdle.
Published
July 28, 2021

Mask mandate reinstituted in U.S. House over concerns about delta variant

The House's resident physician reinstituted the mandate in all House office buildings, meeting areas and the chamber.
Published
June 30, 2021

U.S. House votes along party lines to launch new probe of Jan. 6 insurrection

Republicans object that majority Democrats would be in charge, but Senate Republicans blocked creation of an independent commission that would have been evenly split between the 2 parties.
Published
May 14, 2021

House to vote soon on bills to protect Capitol in wake of Jan. 6 attack

The leaders of the Homeland Security Committee have reached an agreement on a bipartisan commission to investigate the deadly insurrection.

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Published
May 12, 2021

House Republicans push Trump critic Liz Cheney from No. 3 position

The Wyoming congresswoman defiantly insists she’ll keep trying to wrench the party away from the former president and his 'destructive lies.'
Published
April 26, 2021

Republican Sunbelt gains congressional seats as census shows population shift

For the first time in 170 years of statehood, California is losing a congressional seat.
Published
March 17, 2021

One in 4 U.S. House members have not been vaccinated

Democrats have rejected the notion from Republicans that a 75% vaccination rate is a sufficient level to reopen the House of Representatives.
Published
March 13, 2021

Bruce Poliquin: We must protect our sacred right to vote, freely and fairly

Changes that Democrats claim will make it easier for eligible people to cast ballots will actually lead to a less transparent, nationalized system.
Published
March 1, 2021

Minimum wage hike all but dead in Senate virus relief bill

Four days after the chamber's parliamentarian said Senate rules forbid inclusion of a minimum wage increase in the measure, Democrats seemed to have exhausted their options for quickly salvaging the pay hike.