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The U.S. House is showing its support for protesters in Iran.

New York voters hold a strongly unfavorable opinion of Santos, who has admitted to lying about his background and faces multiple investigations.

Many of the 19 Republicans who voted repeatedly against McCarthy really dislike him. It was embarrassing, but this is not about embarrassment.

Look up information about every statewide elected official, every member of the Texas Legislature and every Texan in Congress and see who represents you.

The Texans are poised to chair some of the most important committees, including the appropriations and budget panels.

Welcome to the Republican Wonderland.

The Nation correspondent Elie Mystal was allowed to dehumanize Republicans as “locusts” that "feed on dysfunction and suffering" on MSNBC Friday.

Republican representatives said Sunday they are not worried that Kevin McCarthy gave up too much in order to secure the gavel.

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Rep. Andy Biggs shared a number of positive takeaways after Republicans in the House of Representatives took several days and 15 ballots to elect House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

After a few days of delay, U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-District 34, was sworn in Saturday as a member of the 118th Congress. Gonzalez returns to Congress for his fourth term after being elected, under new Congressional maps, the newest representative for the 34th Congressional District of Texas. “I am honored and humbled to continue representing the people of South Texas in Washington, D.C.,” stated Gonzalez in a news release. The district also runs north along U.S. Highway 77 encompassing Edcouch, Elsa, Raymondville, Kingsville. We must also continue to provide for our veterans and seniors and those looking to call America and South Texas home,” Gonzalez said in the news release.

Newly elected House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he wants to "be the check and provide some balance" to President Joe Biden's policies.

Following a chaotic and historic vote for House speaker that began Tuesday and stretched into early Saturday morning, Monica De La Cruz took the oath of office to become the first woman and first Republican to represent District 15 since its creation in 1903. De La Cruz voted for McCarthy each time. Just after 7 a.m. Saturday, De La Cruz issued a statement marking the occasion. “Those of us who are the children and grandchildren of immigrants know it is a blessing to live in a democracy where we can openly voice our differences,” De La Cruz said. “I thank everyone for their kind words and prayers,” De La Cruz said.

President Biden, former President Trump and several others congratulated House Speaker Kevin McCarthy after his historic election on Saturday morning.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) and his backers didn't go the usual route of nailing down enough support before the House convened, forcing a messy and public scramble.

Some on Twitter praised Matt Gaetz's decision to nominate former President Trump for House speaker Thursday. Kevin McCarthy has now failed in 11 votes to become speaker.

As Republicans squabble over who will be the next speaker, there are essentially no members in the U.S. House of Representatives — only members-elect.

Rep. Matt Gaetz has asked the Architect of the Capitol for clarity on why Kevin McCarthy gets to work out of the House Speaker's Office despite not being elected to the position.

For the first time since 1923, the U.S. House of Representatives failed Tuesday to elect a new Speaker on the initial ballot, signaling the start of what could be a factitious, days-long drama to find a Republican successor to former Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi.

Three Texas Republicans, including Roy, voted three times against U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s bid to be House speaker. They’re demanding rules changes that would give more power to rank-and-file members.

Republicans face delays in exercising their control of the U.S. House of Representatives if wayward GOP lawmakers cannot agree on who will be speaker next Congress.

The Jan. 6 House committee unveiled Monday an introductory report detailing its impetus for referring criminal charges against former President Donald Trump to the DOJ.

The committee is also making criminal referrals to the Justice Department for former President Trump.

House Republicans are eyeing investigatory hearings into Twitter's purported censorship of former President Donald Trump and conservatives next Congress.

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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the National Defense Authorization Act and it includes authorizations for a $34 billion plan to protect residents and the petrochemical industry near Galveston and Houston in Texas.

Member-elect Frost says taking on debt during his campaign brought down his credit score, making it difficult to get approved for a rental.

The 2022 midterms are finally behind us. Now it's time to take stock and look ahead to what we can expect from lawmakers in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Michael Steele warned about what will come next from the far-right Georgia Republican.

But Congressional leaders have neither scheduled nor planned a vote on the debt ceiling before the end of the year.

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President Biden wants Congress to enact new gun control laws, including an assault weapons ban, before the GOP takes control of the House in January.

House Republicans make up the majority in the House of Representatives for the 118th Congress. Here's a rundown of the lawmakers likely gaining power in key panels at the beginning of the new year.

Texans will chair some powerful committees in the House, but their roles in top leadership elections last week were more often as anti-establishment voices than contenders.

The coming House hearings on Hunter Biden will be a repeat dose of Whitewater delusion: a Republican circus act that won’t impress voters.

The House Republican majority is slated to be younger and more diverse next Congress than in years past, boosting the GOP's efforts to be a national party.

This weekend some of Donald Trump's best-known potential GOP rivals will gather in Las Vegas for the first major Republican cattle call in the burgeoning race for the White House

Fox News host Sean Hannity reacts to Republicans securing the majority in the House of Representatives in Wednesday's opening monologue.

Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy won the support of a majority of his caucus in a vote for the party's nominee for Speaker of the House.

The party has 215 seats, according to The Washington Post’s unofficial count, but 218 are needed to gain control. Ballot counting continues in several districts.

As the nation awaits the results of the ongoing ballot counting in California, a deep look into the state's election processes provides insight into the delay in results.

After finally flipping the Democratic district, Monica De La Cruz vowed to “represent all of South Texas” and likely will be influential on border issues.

Republicans will elect their official candidate for House speaker Tuesday as conservative hardliners within the House Freedom Caucus signal objections to Kevin McCarthy.

As states across the country continue to count votes in a tight battle for control of the House of Representatives, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats "haven't given up."

Republicans went into the week looking to take control of the U.S. House and possibly the Senate. Instead, they are left more with questions than favorable results.

Georgia, a red state, now has the second-highest number of Muslim state legislators in the country.

Democrats will hold on to Illinois' 17th Congressional District as Eric Sorensen defeats Republican Esther Joy King, according to The Associated Press.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy declared victory saying that the GOP had flipped enough seats to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Democrat Maxwell Alejandro Frost won in a heavily blue Orlando-area district and is seeking stricter gun control laws.

These 12 races are the key in determining which party will win control of the U.S. House. The outcome could potentially change the course of President Joe Biden’s administration.

Amid Republican gains in the U.S. House races in Florida, Democrat Maxwell Alejandro Frost has become the first member of Generation Z to win a seat in Congress.

Republicans need to flip just five seats in the U.S. House of Representatives in order to take control of the chamber. The Valley’s rightward shift recently resulted in a huge win for the Republican Party when voters elected Flores this June to fill the unexpired term of Democrat Filemon Vela Jr., who resigned on March 31. “We made a little history this year with Mayra Flores getting elected,” McCarthy said. I promise you, we will introduce a bill to defund the 87,000 IRS agents, my friends,” Garcia said. “We don’t need 87,000 IRS agents, my friends, we need 87,000 Border Patrol agents, my friends,” she said, before similarly suggesting 87,000 U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, or 87,000 school security guards.

The representative from Houston said fellow Republicans admitted behind closed doors that the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, and he warned that such messaging could dangerously mislead voters.

Vermont appears poised to elect Becca Balint to its lone House seat, replacing Rep. Peter Welch, likely heir apparent to the Senate seat being vacated by longtime Sen. Patrick Leahy.

Utah Republicans are seeking to defend a U.S. Senate seat and four U.S. House seats. Meanwhile, Democrat-backed independent Evan McMullin is hoping to unseat Sen. Mike Lee.

Both parties suffer partisan bloodshed. One glorifies it.

Ready or not, here it comes. The time to turn back your clocks an hour is right around the corner.

The three GOP candidates raked in a combined $4.3 million over the past three months, and their Democratic competitors got $2.4 million together, according to new campaign finance filings.

As of Sept. 13, there are six Indigenous Americans represented in the House of Representatives, which now has Native American, Native Hawaiian, and Native Alaskan members.

Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi says the United States deplores recent attacks by Azerbaijan on Armenia, and has called for a negotiated solution to the countries’ conflict.

A U.S. congressional delegation headed by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has arrived in Armenia.

Flores’ district director, Aron Peña, was accused of touching and kissing an intern without her consent. He denies any wrongdoing.

The U.S. House has passed a bill that could help protect the 2030 census and other future head counts from political interference. But it's not clear how much support the bill has in the Senate.

A Delaware gardener named Jeff Premar noticed someone was stealing his vegetables. So, he set up a security camera – and realized the culprit was a groundhog. "He would get right up into the camera and chomp on the veggies in your face like, 'Yeah I’m eating your veggies, what are you gonna do about it, Gardener Jeff?'" Premar told CBS News. Eventually, have gave up and built the groundhog, whom he named Chunk, a mini table to dine at.

The House passed the measure, but it will have a harder time getting through the evenly divided Senate.

Gohmert was mentioned several times during Thursday’s hearing, which focused on the coordinated effort by Trump and his allies to convince the Justice Department to investigate voter fraud and help overturn election results.

The GOP is spending big to capture an open congressional seat in South Texas — if only for a few months — as they try to create momentum toward a November election where they are newly targeting the region.

Last week’s massacre at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School is the latest stark reminder of just how little action the United States Congress has taken in recent years on gun reform.

For some female incumbents running for reelection in Congress this year, holding their seats comes with a new challenge.

The bill, which passed in the House, would expand the formula brand choices available to mothers on a federal assistance program in an attempt to mitigate a disruptive baby formula shortage around the country.

A court-appointed expert released a draft of new congressional maps for New York that are more favorable to Republicans than the original gerrymandered political maps drawn by Democrats.

CNN on Friday published the Austin congressman’s text messages with President Donald Trump’s chief of staff in the aftermath of the election.

The seats in question are held by U.S. Reps. Henry Cuellar of Laredo and Vicente Gonzalez of McAllen. A third vacant seat recently belonged to Filemon Vela of Brownsville, who stepped down to take a private sector lobbying job.

The winner of the special election will replace former U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Brownsville, who resigned last month to work for Akin Gump.

Josh Malone funded a super PAC that spent over $400,000 working to defeat the Plano congressman, who got forced into a primary runoff and then admitted to an affair and ended his campaign.

The U.S. House speaker said during a stop Wednesday in Austin that she always supports her incumbents — “from right to left.”

South Texas Democrats are facing an identity crisis and trying to distance themselves from out-of-state progressives after the party underperformed in the region in 2020.

A senior Republican lawmaker has apologized for using an expletive when Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio asked him to put his mask on while in the Capitol.

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.

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.

Two more House Democrats have announced they won't be seeking reelection in November.

Every statewide office, legislative seat and U.S. House district will be on the ballot next year when the state’s new political maps are expected to be used.

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

Vermont’s sole congressman, Democratic Rep. Peter Welch, says he'll run for Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy’s Senate seat next year.

In the fight to keep control of the U.S. House of Representatives, Democrats need help from the few places where state lawmakers can make 2022 difficult for Republicans.

Texas lawmakers drew new maps for the state House and Senate, congressional delegation and State Board of Education. Here’s what Texans should know about the 2021 redistricting outcomes.

Wesley Hunt, an Army combat veteran who ran a close congressional contest last year in the Houston area, announced Tuesday he plans to run for the state's new 38th Congressional District in the same region.

The two-term Houston representative holds a congressional seat with a storied Republican lineage. With the GOP-controlled Legislature about to release new district maps, some expect they will try to wrest the seat back into their column.

The Democratic incumbent, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez of McAllen, had a surprisingly close race last year as President Joe Biden underperformed across the region, and his 2020 challenger, Monica De La Cruz-Hernandez, is running again.

VIA is launching a new program that will help make using VIA buses more accessible to the impaired.

McCaul, the highest ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, says Biden ignored intelligence briefings and underestimated the Taliban's strength.

The Senate approved a $1 trillion, bipartisan bill that also earmarks money for broadband internet access. It’s not yet known how much money set aside for the country’s aging electricity infrastructure could go to Texas’ main power grid.

Three Texas House Democrats testified before a congressional committee on their efforts to thwart voting restrictions — and were met with heat from their Republican counterparts.

Three of the Democratic legislators who went to Washington, D.C., to deny the Texas House a quorum have been invited to detail their concerns at a specially called hearing on the contentious legislation that includes new restrictions on voting.

Beckley unveiled her plans in a video filmed inside a hotel room in the nation’s capital, where state House Democrats fled earlier this month to break quorum in protest of Republicans’ priority elections bill.

Trevor Reed, a 29-year-old resident of Granbury, was arrested in August 2019 on specious grounds, according to news reports and American diplomats, and his supporters say he’s being held on trumped-up charges because he’s a retired Marine.

The Uyghurs are a predominantly Muslim group who live in China’s northwestern region. The Chinese persecution of these people reportedly includes indoctrination camps and forced sterilization of women.

Roy announced that he was seeking the post on Thursday, but was then quickly denounced by former President Donald Trump.

As U.S. Rep. Chip Roy made known his intent Thursday to become the third-ranking House Republican, former President Donald Trump released a statement of condemnation of the Austin Republican and endorsed his rival for the post.

The U.S. Capitol on Jan. 12, 2021. Credit: REUTERS/Joshua RobertsA U.S. House subcommittee is investigating the operator of Texas’ power grid for its role in leaving millions without electricity during the destructive winter storm that hammered the state two weeks ago. The subcommittee asked ERCOT to fork over documents by March 17. AdIn the letter, Khanna also highlighted the known risk that climate change poses to the United States based on scientific evidence. ERCOT and the State of Texas are well-aware of the weather predictions, yet you failed to prepare adequately for them,” Khanna said. The oversight committee is “the main investigative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives” and can investigate within its legislative jurisdiction as well as “any matter” within the jurisdiction of other standing committees, according to the committee’s website.