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Trump alumni at America First Legal representing Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) won a court order forcing Biden to disclose American taxpayer money funding Hamas terrorists at war with Israel.

Representative Ken Buck (R-CO) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” he was now in favor of expelling Rep. George Santos (R-NY) after a report from the House Ethics Committee found he had misused campaign funds.

Rural communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are facing an “environmental catastrophe” as mining for cobalt and other minerals necessary for manufacturing batteries poisons their land and water with toxic chemicals, experts told Congress on Tuesday.

Lawmakers, human rights experts, and civil society advocates published statements this week in anticipation of the arrival of genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping to California next week, urging leftist President Joe Biden to raise the issue of Beijing’s deplorable human rights record during an expected meeting between the two.

A top federal prosecutor warned Congress of California election interference by China as Gov. Gavin Newsom met with CCP officials last week.

The Congressional-Executive Commission on China heard testimony that Chinese seafood exports to the U.S. are tainted by forced labor.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) pleaded guilty on Thursday to one misdemeanor for pulling a fire alarm in a congressional office building last month just as lawmakers were about to vote on a short-term government funding measure to avoid a government shutdown.

Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) on Wednesday decried the standard of Republicans who surround him in Congress, lamenting “America is not sending their best and brightest, you know, to Washington, DC.”

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) ripped down two signs warning a second floor door in the Cannon House Office Building was for emergency use only before pulling the fire alarm and running out through a different door on a different floor, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to celebrate the indictment of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) on corruption charges in remarks this week suggesting that his removal from the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would make it easier for Turkey to purchase American F-16 fighter jets.

The House of Representatives will vote this week to beef up border security and keep the government open, sparking a showdown with an obstinate Senate desiring the status quo at the southern border.

Senator Catherine Cortez Masto and Congresswoman Dina Titus have gone quiet after it emerged they gave awards to the controversial transgender spokesperson for the Ukrainian military Sarah Ashton-Cirillo.

Over one hundred representatives from corporate media companies around the country will be in DC this month, pushing Congress to once again take up the repeatedly-nixed Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a bailout bill for the legacy media industry, and perhaps one of the most-revived bills of all time.

Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that he believed House Republicans were peddling falsehoods that are “putting people’s lives at risk.”

The Senate’s informal dress code has been quietly ditched by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) with senators now given the thumbs-up to wear whatever they want on the floor, several outlets detailed Monday.

The White House and Capitol Hill can expect a visit from Ukraine President Volodymr Zelensky next week as  the latest aid package worth upwards of $24 billion is debated in Congress.

The vast majority of American voters support term limits for Congress, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Tuesday found.

Most U.S. adults believe there should be a “maximum age” to be president or serve in Congress, a recent survey found.

Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) said on FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures” that the impeachment of President Joe Biden was “window dressing.”

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced that she will seek reelection in 2024, prompting shock and amusement from critics.

In an unprecedented move, the attorneys general from all 50 states and four territories have sent a collective letter to Congress, calling for the establishment of an expert commission to address the exploitation of children through AI-generated child pornography.

House Republicans are pressuring their colleagues to block radical Biden administration excesses and advance priorities like border security.

CNN medical analyst Jonathan Reiner said Tuesday on CNN’s “OutFront” that the attending Physician of Congress Brian Monahan’s explanation of two recent incidents in which Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) froze while speaking was “laughable.”

Joe Biden’s ATF announced a proposed rule Thursday requiring universal background checks, which Congress has rejected for more than 20 years.

Republican senators are demanding “answers” after the Biden administration struck a deal with the Iranian regime to transfer five Iranian Americans from prison to house arrest in exchange for billions in unfrozen assets.

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Hunter Biden attorney Abbe Lowell stated that Hunter Biden would not testify before the House committees investigating him, because until House Republicans “show that they have a serious intent, are operating within the

Leftists’ recent barrage of smears against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas appear to be an unconstitutional attempt at reverse court-packing: forcing conservative justices off certain key cases to shape their outcome and, with it, the direction of the nation.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has the strongest favorability rating of any Congressional leader, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll. 

Expert witnesses told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday that North Korea, despite being an impoverished rogue state where citizens struggle to access electricity, is “in the top tier of global cyber threats” due to communist dictator Kim Jong-un’s obsessive focus on cybercrimes as a form of financing.

Left-wing pro-life activists allegedly discovered the remains of approximately 115 aborted babies in Washington, D.C., on March 25, 2022, five of whom they say might have been partially aborted or killed after birth in violation of federal law.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Wednesday announced he would introduce legislation to defund Special Counsel Jack Smith, who may be seeking yet another indictment of former President Donald Trump in the midst of a presidential election.

Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) have introduced a bipartisan plan to ban members of Congress, senior officials across the executive branch, and their family members from holding and trading stocks.

Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom, sidelined from the league after wearing shoes reading “Free Tibet” to a basketball game in 2021, told Congress on Tuesday that his manager estimates he has lost $50 million in player salaries and potential endorsements since condemning China.

Former U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman slammed the Biden administration for its having yet to invite the Israeli premier to the White House while accusing it of “strengthening” the otherwise “weak” Iranian regime.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” CNBC Contributor and former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) responded to Democrats complaining about the Supreme Court’s decision on President Joe Biden’s student loan plan by stating that the ruling “is all about Article

WASHINGTON, DC – Texas and Louisiana lack standing to sue the Biden administration’s policy of not enforcing a federal law requiring the arrest of certain criminal aliens, the Supreme Court held on Friday.