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On this week’s episode, Matthew speaks with Abby and Karen about U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar’s legal situation and whether the omicron wave is receding.

The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection has subpoenaed more than a dozen individuals who it says falsely tried to declare Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 election.

The riot panel wants information about bogus Trump Electoral College slates in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Why did a local official, at the turn of the twentieth century, maintain a ledger tracking Chinese residents?

Public congressional hearings exposing the full story of the Capitol riot are past due. Delay is weakening the lawmakers’ case that they are investigating an urgent threat.

After sustained opposition in Washington, Facebook is shuttering its Diem cryptocurrency project after a years-long effort to push into one of the hottest areas of emerging technology.

It’s been a year of trauma, big wins and major frustrations.

There has been a burst of activity in the investigation into the Florida congressman and Trump ally.

Paxton’s attack ads suggest that he sees Gohmert as a bigger threat than the other two Republicans in the race — Land Commissioner George P. Bush and former state Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman.

He's running as a Democrat against hard-line conservative Bob Good in Virginia's 5th district.

The monthly cash payments reached more than 61 million kids in December alone. Most low-income families spent the money on basic needs, like food, clothing and utility bills.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi reignited the debate after she explained why she was against prohibiting trading.

President Joe Biden is getting support from several business leaders on his economic agenda that has stalled in the Senate.

A group of Republican and Democratic senators are working to reform the way elections are certified.

New survey of companies highlights dire challenges, with chips in short supply as demand increases.

Americans across the country participated in an effort to subvert democracy.

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, is the favorite to return to Congress via Texas’ 37th District, while Republican Wesley Hunt is the leading contender in the 38th District.

The Justice Department created an algorithm to measure a person's risk of committing a new crime after leaving prison. But even after multiple tweaks the tool is leading to racial disparities.

The Justice Department created an algorithm to measure a person's risk of committing a new crime after leaving prison. But even after multiple tweaks, the tool is leading to racial disparities.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is seeking reelection, ending speculation that she would retire as Democrats face the threat of losing control of Congress in the 2022 midterms.

In 2019, she got enough votes to regain her gavel by agreeing to limit her tenure as speaker for four more years, appeasing enough House Democrats to vote for her.

After the failure of Democratic legislation, a voting-rights expert talks about options for safeguarding elections.

New survey of companies highlights dire challenges, with chips in short supply as demand increases.

Johnson did not make her retirement official until November, setting off an abridged scramble to set up campaigns ahead of the December filing deadline but attracting a packed lineup of experienced candidates who are either well connected, well known or well funded.

House GOP leaders are privately discussing curtailing lawmakers from owning stocks and are aiming to make it part of their 2022 agenda.

House GOP leaders are privately discussing curtailing lawmakers from trading stocks while in office and are aiming to make it part of their 2022 agenda.

More than two dozen House members are calling for leadership to "swiftly" ban members of Congress from owning or trading stocks while in office.

Activists warn that the failure to deliver on promises to Black voters could hurt Democrats in the midterm election.

Honduran President-elect Xiomara Castro is facing a growing crisis: Dueling sessions of the newly elected Congress on Sunday elected different sets of leaders

If Congress wants to pass legislation in response to omicron, it should focus on the next pandemic, not the current one.

Budowich said that that he provided the Jan 6. Committee, with at least 1,700 pages of documents and sat for "roughly four hours of sworn testimony."

In an advertisement that will begin airing this weekend, Cuellar says he’ll “never stop fighting for South Texas.”

Cuellar has ties to a Houston-based businessman who was convicted of lying to Congress...

A bipartisan group of senators is now working on narrower election reforms after the Senate failed to pass major voting rights legislation this week.

Members of the group face seditious-conspiracy charges for their roles in the January 6th insurrection. Can a sincere belief that the election was stolen protect them?

Honduran President-elect Xiomara Castro saw her prospects of a successful administration take a hit on Friday even before she has been sworn in: A battle for leadership of the newly elected Congress devolved into shouting and shoving among her own allies. The dispute threatens to split her own Liberty and Refoundation Party, as well as its alliance with the party of Vice President Salvador Nasralla — and raised suspicions that the outgoing government is trying to scuttle her administration before it can start. Castro had promised to give leadership of the new Congress to an allied party she will depend upon to pass legislation after she takes office on Thursday.

The federal infrastructure bill’s passage renewed hopes that Texas would finally get a coastal storm barrier. But Galveston and Houston could still get hit by a hurricane before it is built.

The decision blocking Trump's use of executive privilege in the Capitol riot investigation is also a "nail in the coffin" for the two former aides, said Neal Katyal.

SARA said Thursday that it will receive $75 million in federal funding for the Westside Creeks Ecosystem Restoration Project.

And the Supreme Court is okay with that.

Biden said he believes Congress will support climate and early childhood education policies contained in his Build Back Better plan.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., doesn't trade stocks, but thinks lawmakers should be able to pick individual stocks. The top House Republican backs a new ban amid a bipartisan push for reform.

Ancestors of a local Native American tribe hope Congress will help them achieve federal recognition.

As support grows for a ban on stock trades by members, the White House says Biden's position is that the question should be left to Congress to decide.

Experts noted that while former President Donald Trump tried to gut Obamacare, President Joe Biden has been a cheerleader for the health insurance law.

U.S. is investing billions in "carbon capture" technologies. So far, there's not much to show for it.

A look at how the two situations are different, despite what critics of the filibuster say.

A progressive law in the nation’s largest city seems to be a step too far for national Democrats.

Two years ago, in early 2020, when America first braced for the onslaught of the COVID epidemic, a temporarily united Congress reached for a tool that would help cushion the

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would. have turned 93 on Jan. 15. He was just 39 when he was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tenn.

Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, the first Black woman to run the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, says voting rights is a top priority.

The Jackson County lawman is running on a Trump-style “America First” platform. There’s only one problem: Trump endorsed his opponent.

Some of the same voting debates underway when Martin Luther King Jr. was alive are still being debated right now in Texas and in Washington, D.C.

One of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, Charles McGee, who flew fighter combat missions over three wars, has died.

The year has barely started, but Congress is already back at work.

President Joe Biden came to office seeing two sicknesses in his country.

When pandemic policies change society, Congress should debate them.

Our electoral system is still in peril. Congress should try a different approach — less ambitious, more bipartisan.

Three Supreme Court conservatives have signaled that they want to go beyond barring vaccine mandates to erecting sweeping constitutional barriers against federal regulatory activity.

Katko is the third Republican who voted for former President Donald Trump's second impeachment to announce his retirement.

Sens. Jon Ossoff and Josh Hawley introduced competing bills to ban members of Congress and their immediate family members from trading stocks while in office.

Earlier this week, President Biden travelled to Georgia to emphasize that, as he put it, without the vote, “nothing is possible, but with it, everything is possible.”

Lawmakers want the Senate to have a say in who leads the troubled federal Bureau of Prisons.

Democrats’ options for passing a voting rights bill dwindle as tensions escalate in the Senate.

Here’s something Democrats and Republicans have in common: When lawmakers are deadlocked, leaders turn to the rulebooks, searching for angles and rule changes that would turn things their way.

The federal government is moving forward with a plan to let teenagers drive big rigs from state to state in a test program.

Delta Air Lines says customers will get an extra year to use travel vouchers that they received after canceling a flight during the pandemic.

A formal challenge of North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s qualifications to run for Congress has been delayed while redistricting litigation is pending.

A group of North Carolina voters want U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn disqualified as a congressional candidate.

The Texas 2022 primary will take place March 1. See the full list of candidates statewide and find out who's on your ballot based on where you live.

Just a year ago, many Republicans joined Democrats in reacting with horror to the Capitol insurrection.

After conservative backlash, Cruz took to a FOX News show — whose host also lambasted him — to backpedal from comments he made during a congressional hearing.

In the weeks before the Jan. 6, 2021, certification of President Joe Biden’s victory, a small group of House Democrats huddled to contemplate what they would do if then-Vice President Mike Pence tried to overturn the presidential election.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib says she will seek reelection in a new Detroit-area seat created through redistricting, an announcement that came hours after fellow Democratic Rep. Brenda Lawrence said she will retire from Congress.

The new year comes with a new election — and with familiar challenges to the way Texans vote and have their votes counted.

U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence says she plans to retire from Congress at the end of her term, becoming the 25th House Democrat to decide against seeking reelection in 2022.

The Republican senator from Texas said Democrats weaponized impeachment with former President Donald Trump, adding, “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”

Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois has formally announced he won't seek a 16th term in the U.S. House.

A new poll shows that a year after the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, only about 4 in 10 Republicans recall the attack by supporters of then-President Donald Trump as very violent or extremely violent.

Three Democratic attorneys general are seeking to overturn the dismissal of a lawsuit that sought to force the federal government to recognize Virginia’s 2020 vote to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and add it to the Constitution.

Congress’ top doctor says lawmakers should move to a “maximal telework posture.”.

As 2021 comes to a close, here’s a look back at just some of our favorite images captured by Texas Tribune photographers all over the state — and across the nation — to tell the stories of Texans in a challenging year.

On Monday, President Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act, enacting provisions of the “I Am Vanessa Guillén Act.” The new law takes effect Jan. 1.

A federal judge has refused to throw out an indictment charging four alleged leaders of the far-right Proud Boys with conspiring to attack the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.

An ongoing pandemic. A restrictive and unusual abortion law. A vulnerable power grid. These are the biggest stories from 2021 that will continue to unfold in 2022.

Texas politics in 2021 were marked by a violent insurrection at the nation’s Capitol and state legislative fights over abortion, voting rights and redistricting. Our photojournalists were there every step of the way.

Two years have passed since Congress directed the creation of an intelligence center to lead efforts to stop election interference by foreign adversaries.

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

Democrat Stacey Abrams is calling on Congress to act on voting rights as she launches a second bid to become Georgia's governor.

The nation’s top financial regulators told Congress Friday that threats to financial stability remain elevated even though the country has recovered from the worst economic shocks stemming from the COVID pandemic.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is subpoenaing James P.

On Jan. 6, as Congress was meeting to certify the victory of President Joe Biden, hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who claimed the election had been stolen violently pushed past police.

A government report says U.S. health care spending rocketed to $4.1 trillion last year as Congress opened the spigot of federal dollars to battle the coronavirus pandemic across multiple fronts.

Congress has sent President Joe Biden a $768.2 billion defense bill that makes landmark changes to the way the military handles sexual assaults and keeps women out of the draft.

A federal judge has refused to throw out a key charge against two men accused of storming the U.S. Capitol to obstruct Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's electoral victory.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is subpoenaing six more people who the panel says were involved in the organization and planning of rallies that aimed to overturn Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 presidential election.

Former San Antonio Councilwoman Rebecca Viagrán confirmed she will run for Congress.

A federal appeals court has ruled against an effort by former President Donald Trump to shield documents from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.

The Senate has passed a fast-track plan for raising the debt limit.

Crenshaw, who mentioned the House Freedom Caucus while making the criticism, sought to clarify later that he largely was not referring to the group.