Congress passes short-term funding extension to avert government shutdown
The bill now heads to President Biden's desk with government funding set to expire Friday.
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The bill now heads to President Biden's desk with government funding set to expire Friday.
Two years into Russia's full-scale invasion, President Biden says Ukrainians "continue to fight with tremendous courage," but they need America's help.
Rep. George Santos is just the sixth House member in U.S. history to be expelled and the first in more than 20 years.
The House voted to keep government agencies funded until at least Jan. 19 in a bipartisan vote.
The measure is expected to be dead on arrival in the Senate.
"The people's House is back in business," newly elected Speaker Mike Johnson told colleagues before being sworn in.
The House Republican Conference voted that Jordan should drop his bid in a closed-door meeting following an earlier vote on the House floor.
Rep. Jim Jordan lost 20 Republicans to win just 200 votes, falling shy of the 217 needed to become speaker of the House.
Hours before a midnight deadline, Congress passed a short-term funding bill to keep the government running for 45 days.
The federal government is heading toward a shutdown that will disrupt many services, squeeze workers and roil politics.
A former military intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower told House lawmakers that Congress is being kept in the dark about unidentified anomalous phenomena.
Rep. Adam Schiff is just the 25th House lawmaker to be censured in U.S. history.
The House passed the bill to raise the debt ceiling Wednesday. Now, the Senate will take it up.
A majority of Democrats and a majority of Republicans voted in favor of the Fiscal Responsibility Act.
Rep. Thomas Massie broke with two other conservatives on the House Rules Committee to advance the legislation to the House floor.
To pass their debt ceiling deal, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden will now have to sell it to their respective parties.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says Republican negotiators are "closer to an agreement" that would resolve the looming debt crisis, but there's no deal yet with President Joe Biden.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer promised the legislation faces a "dead end" in the Senate.
Schroeder was elected by Colorado voters in 1972 and then reelected 11 times, becoming one of the most influential Democrats and feminists in Congress.
US Marine Corps Sergeant Tyler Vargas-Andrews can remember in specific detail the moment that a suicide bomber attacked Kabul airport's Abbey Gate in August 2021 amid the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
President Biden paid tribute to the heroes of "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama.
Over 1,000 people have pleaded guilty or have been convicted of federal charges of defrauding COVID-19 relief programs that Congress established early in the pandemic.
House Republicans approved a rules package for House Kevin McCarthy.
It's still far short of the longest speaker's election in history, which took nearly two months and 133 ballots.
As the stalemate continued, the House voted to adjourn until noon Thursday.
