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Ranking member Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va., speaks, April 19, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Rep. Gerry Connolly steps down as top Oversight Democrat and won’t seek reelection as cancer returns

Congressman Gerry Connolly of Virginia is stepping down as the top Democrat on the powerful House Oversight Committee and won’t be seeking reelection next year. Connolly says in a statement released Monday his cancer has returned.
 
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters as he and first lady Melania Trump depart on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, April 25, 2025, in Washington. The President and first lady will be traveling to Rome and the Vatican to attend the funeral for Pope Francis. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Higher taxes on millionaires? Trump says he’s open, but many in his party are not

 
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., speaks during a hearing of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

How a fight over proxy voting for new parents upended the US House

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., left, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., make statements to reporters ahead of vote in the House to pass a bill on President Donald Trump's top domestic priorities of spending reductions and tax breaks, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Now that they’ve passed a budget plan, the hard part begins for Republicans

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters just after House Republicans narrowly approved their budget framework, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House approves budget framework for Trump’s ‘big’ bill after intense wrangling sways GOP holdouts

 

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House Speaker Mike Johnson talks to attendees of a campaign event for Republican U.S. House candidate Yvette Herrell of New Mexico in Las Cruces, N.M., Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

House Republican unveil bill to avoid shutdown. Senate Democrats say they’re wasting precious time

 
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to media at the David Kempinski Hotel in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (Kevin Mohatt/Pool Photo via AP)

House Republicans subpoena Secretary Blinken for testimony on US withdrawal from Afghanistan

 
FILE - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Zuckerberg says the White House pressured Facebook over some COVID-19 content during the pandemic

 

Judge accepts insanity plea from man who attacked Virginia congressman’s office with bat

 
FILE - House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., talks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Jan. 11, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer, former House Democratic leader, is recovering from mild stroke

 
FILE - Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., left, and her husband, Paul, watch during Game 4 in the first round of the NBA basketball playoffs between the Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings in San Francisco, April 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Pelosi warns in her new book that political threats and violence ‘must stop’

 
FILE - Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., offers remarks following the Senate Democrats policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol, July 30, 2024, in Washington. Schumer is daring Republicans to vote against a bipartisan tax cut package aimed at expanding the child tax credit for million of families and restoring some business tax breaks. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)

Senate rejects legislation that would expand child tax credit and restore business tax breaks

 
FILE - Democrat state Sen. Cleo Fields speaks during the swearing in of the Louisiana state legislature in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, Pool)

Democrats look to longtime state Sen. Cleo Fields to flip Louisiana congressional seat blue

 
FILE — Isabella Cimato, 17, from left, Arianna Schaden, 14, and Sofia Harrison, 15, check their phones at Roosevelt Field shopping mall in Garden City, N.Y., on July 27, 2015. The last time Congress passed a law to protect children on the internet was in 1998, before Facebook, the iPhone and long before today's oldest teenagers were born. Now, a bill aiming to protect kids from the harms of social media, gaming sites and other online platforms appears to have enough bipartisan support to pass, though whether it actually will remains uncertain. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Senate passes bill to protect kids online and make tech companies accountable for harmful content

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., meets with reporters ahead of a Wednesday visit by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu who will address a joint meeting of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Republicans vote to rebuke Kamala Harris over administration’s handling of border policy

 
President Joe Biden pauses as he concludes his address to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2024, about his decision to drop his Democratic presidential reelection bid. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

Biden signs bill strengthening oversight of crisis-plagued US Bureau of Prisons after AP reporting

 
FILE — Isabella Cimato, 17, from left, Arianna Schaden, 14, and Sofia Harrison, 15, check their phones at Roosevelt Field shopping mall in Garden City, N.Y., on July 27, 2015. The last time Congress passed a law to protect children on the internet was in 1998, before Facebook, the iPhone and long before today's oldest teenagers were born. Now, a bill aiming to protect kids from the harms of social media, gaming sites and other online platforms appears to have enough bipartisan support to pass, though whether it actually will remains uncertain. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Senate to consider bills that aim to protect children and teenagers online

 
FILE - Students work on a laptop computer at Stonewall Elementary in Lexington, Ky., Feb. 6, 2023. A bill aiming to protect kids from the harms of social media, gaming sites and other online platforms appears to have enough bipartisan support to pass, though whether it actually will remains uncertain. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

What to know about the Kids Online Safety Act that just passed the Senate

 
FILE - The Federal Correctional Institution is shown in Dublin, Calif., Monday, March 11, 2024. Two advocacy groups on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, asked a judge to unseal court records and preserve public access to hearings in the class action lawsuit against the federal Bureau of Prisons over sexual abuse of incarcerated women at a now-shuttered California prison. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Congress OKs bill overhauling oversight of troubled federal Bureau of Prisons

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks at a news conference with Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, left, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., right, at the Capitol on Tuesday, July 9, 2024 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

House passes GOP bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote, boosting election-year talking point

 
FILE - Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, attends a panel discussion at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Nov. 11, 2022. House Republicans approved two bills Tuesday, July 9, 2024, rolling back Energy Department efficiency standards for home refrigerators and dishwashers. The bill by Miller-Meeks would curtail Energy Department rules on refrigerators. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell, File)

House backs bills to roll back energy efficiency standards for refrigerators, dishwashers

 
FILE - Chair Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., left, and Vice Chair Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, right, arrives for a Senate Appropriations hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 16, 2023. The Senate will pursue a spending increase next year of about 3.4% for defense and 2.7% increase for non-defense programs under a bipartisan agreement reached by the Senate Appropriations Committee. The deal reached by Sens. Patty Murray and Susan Collins sets up a certain clash later this year with the House, which is pursuing less spending in both categories. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Key senators reach agreement on spending levels for next year, setting up clash with House

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., conducts a news conference at the Republican National Committee after a meeting with Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump and the House Republican Conference on Thursday, June 13, 2024. Also appearing from left are, Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., and House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn. (Tom Williams/Pool via AP)

House Republicans unite on spending cuts to non-defense programs, but Senate roadblock awaits

 
FI"LE - Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, listens during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 16, 2015. Doggett has become the first in the party to publicly call for President Joe Biden to step down as the Democratic nominee for president, citing Biden's debate performance failing to "effectively defend his many accomplishments." (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

Rep. Lloyd Doggett becomes first Democrat in Congress to call for Biden’s withdrawal from 2024 race

 
FILE - United Mine Workers of America President Cecil E. Roberts speaks at a rally to celebrate Mitchell Day, a UMWA union holiday, on Friday, April 1, 2016, in Waynesburg, Pa. Roberts on Friday, June 28, 2024, condemned an effort by House Republicans to block enforcement of a long-awaited federal rule directed at curbing workers' exposure to deadly and poisonous rock dust, calling it “a direct attack on the health hand safety of coal miners.” (Kelly Tunney/Herald-Standard via AP, File)

US miners’ union head calls House Republican effort to block silica dust rule an ‘attack’ on workers

 
FILE - Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, argues for an amendment at the start of House Judiciary Committee meetings at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 1, 2023. The House Ethics Committee said Monday, June 24, 2024, it was reviewing accusations that Hunt and Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, violated ethics rules by using campaign funds to pay membership dues at private social clubs. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House ethics panel reviews 2 GOP lawmakers’ campaign payments to private social clubs

 
FILE - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks March 3, 2015, before a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate are wrestling with whether to attend Netanyahu's address to Congress on July 24, 2024. Many are torn between their long-standing support for Israel and their anguish about the way Netanyahu's government has waged war in Gaza. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Democrats wrestle with whether to attend Netanyahu’s address to Congress as many plan to boycott

 
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump walks to the podium at a campaign event Tuesday, June 18, 2024, in Racine, Wis. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

Trump is proposing to make tips tax-free. What would that mean for workers?

 
FILE - Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., speaks with members of the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 23, 2023. On Friday, June 14, 2024, Graves announced that he will not run for reelection, citing a new congressional map that dismantled his district. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Louisiana US Rep. Garret Graves won’t seek reelection, citing a new congressional map

 
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks to the media after a jury found former President Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, Thursday, May 30, 2024, in New York. Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes as a New York jury found him guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who said the two had sex. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and Trump prosecutor Matthew Colangelo will appear before Congress July 12

 
FILE - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a cabinet meeting at the Kirya military base, which houses the Israeli Ministry of Defense, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Dec. 24, 2023. Top U.S. leaders have invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver an address to Congress. The visit would provide a show of wartime support for the longtime ally despite mounting political divisions over Israel’s military assault on Gaza. The invitation from House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, and the other leaders has been in the works for some time. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, Pool, File)

Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu set to address the US Congress on July 24

 
FILE - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, front, attends a wreath-laying ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, in Jerusalem, Israel, on May 6, 2024. The cease-fire proposal announced by President Joe Biden has placed Prime Minister Netanyahu at a crossroads, with either path likely to shape the legacy of Israel's longest-serving and deeply divisive leader. (Amir Cohen/Pool Photo via AP, File)

House passes proposal sanctioning top war-crimes court after it sought Netanyahu arrest warrant

 
Attorney General Merrick Garland is sworn-in during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Department of Justice, Tuesday, June 4, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Garland slams attacks on the Justice Department, telling lawmakers: ‘I will not be intimidated’

 
This image from House Television shows Rep. John Rose, R-Tenn., speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives Monday, June 3, 2024, in Washington, as his son Guy makes a face. (House Television via AP)

Congressman’s son steals show on House floor, hamming it up for cameras

 
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., right, administers the House oath of office to Rep. Vince Fong, R-Calif., during a ceremonial swearing-in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday June 3, 2024. Amanda Fong holds the Bible. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

California Republican takes oath of office to complete term of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy

 
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