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Senate returns and faces deadline to avoid shutdown and questions about McConnell

Congress faces a tight deadline to pass a short term spending bill and avoid a shutdown. Also Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell faces questions about his health following a second public episode.

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Rep. Clyde signals appropriations fight over Trump prosecutions - Roll Call

The House Appropriations Committee could consider stripping funding from prosecutors pursuing charges against former President Donald Trump.

Roll Call

House GOP anti-spending fervor may not apply to member pay raise

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans would give lawmakers their first pay increase in nearly 15 years under a spending bill for the upcoming fiscal year that the Appropriations Committee approved last month.

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House GOP anti-spending fervor may not apply to member pay raise - Roll Call

House Republicans left out the traditional language blocking a cost-of-living increase from this year’s Legislative Branch spending bill.

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These House Republicans opposed making Juneteenth a holiday two years ago

Republicans said the holiday was meant to stoke racial division

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House GOP leaders work to tamp down rule fracas - Roll Call

Republican leaders spent another day trying to resolve an intraparty feud that ground House business to a halt for the week.

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Deeper spending cuts may be in play to break House deadlock - Roll Call

Facing a right-flank revolt, Speaker Kevin McCarthy may be open to lower spending next year than Congress agreed to last week.

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House conservatives block GOP bills, voice frustration in response to last week's debt ceiling vote

Eleven House conservatives have staged a mini-revolt as part of the fallout from last week’s vote to lift the debt ceiling

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U.S. House paralyzed as conservative Republicans' fight with McCarthy drags on

House lawmakers won't vote until Monday after a bloc of Freedom Caucus members torpedoed GOP legislation in an effort to express dissatisfaction with House leadership.

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GOP hardliners tank vote to force McCarthy reckoning

"I think leadership now understands it is a matter of some urgency."

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Still steaming over debt deal, conservatives derail House action - Roll Call

Hard-right House conservatives derailed legislation scheduled for floor votes Tuesday in a rebuke to GOP leadership.

Roll Call

Appropriators face close votes on spending bills in committee - Roll Call

Rep. Steve Womack said Tuesday that lining up support from GOP panel members for appropriations markups remains “a work in progress.”

Roll Call

Space agency's GOP fans make their case to shield it from cuts - Roll Call

As House Republicans sit down to write their fiscal 2024 spending bills, some appropriators are pushing to add NASA to the protected list.

Roll Call

DEA chief grilled over probe into no-bid contracts, hiring

Lawmakers grilled U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration chief Anne Milgram over millions of dollars in no-bid contracts that are the subject of a watchdog probe into whether the agency improperly hired some of her past associates

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Speaker McCarthy: 100 days in power and a tough road ahead

When Rep. Kevin McCarthy emerged from the messy 15-ballot election in January to become House speaker, he said he was emboldened by the fight

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Proposed ATF budget runs into opposition from House Republicans

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s proposed budget increase for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in fiscal 2024 faces sharp opposition from many House Republicans who want to make cuts this budget cycle.

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Republicans critical of Biden funding request for gun agency - Roll Call

President Biden’s proposed budget increase for the ATF faces sharp opposition from many House Republicans who want to make cuts.

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DC braces for 'robust oversight' after criminal code fiasco

President Joe Biden’s signature on a measure nullifying the recent overhaul of the District of Columbia criminal code marked the end of one bruising public fight between Congress and local lawmakers

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Meet the Freedom Caucus' new insiders on House Appropriations - Roll Call

Freedom Caucus duo is moving the Appropriations Committee to the ideological right as spending battles loom.

Salon

House Republicans wear assault rifle pin

Republicans like George Santos were seen wearing the pin during National Gun Violence Survivors Week

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Heated speaker contest shows high stakes of Rep. Tom Emmer's U.S. House leadership role

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer spent the longest speaker election in more than a century trying to mend a bitter divide within the Republican Party.

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These 21 House members didn't vote for Kevin McCarthy. Here's what they want

McCarthy is still short of the votes he needs to be speaker, and it's because of a staunch, anti-establishment, intransigent far-right group that wants government to do a lot less.

Tribune News Service

‘Good riddance’: In first act in power, Republicans remove metal detectors from House chamber

WASHINGTON — As Republicans took control of the House on Tuesday, they wasted no time in erasing one symbol of the previous era. They removed the metal detectors that stood outside the House chamber for the last two years.

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‘Good riddance’: Republicans remove metal detectors from House chamber

As Republicans took control of the House on Tuesday, they wasted no time in erasing one symbol of the previous era — metal detectors.

Salon

Gaetz, Boebert diss Zelenskyy speech

Gaetz and Boebert sat through standing ovations and checked their phones as the Ukrainian leader pleaded for help

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