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As the nation prepares for the seating of the 116th Congress next month, many question if anti-Trump lawmakers will allow their disdain for the Commander-in-Chief to override our national interests.

In testimony before the House Judiciary and House Oversight Committees, former FBI Director James Comey made numerous assertions that are seemingly at odds with other statements he made during the course of the same testimony.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is set to appear before the House Judiciary Committee today at 10:00 a.m. EST to discuss Google’s collection and use of user data.

Halper: The Problem Is Not Google’s Algorithms, It’s the Big Tech Business Model

At the time James B. Comey was fired as FBI director, his agency was still attempting to corroborate claims made in the infamous, largely-discredited anti-Trump dossier, Comey admitted.

Some Republican members of Congress are worried that unless the Republican Party recruits more women to run for Congress, it will lose female voters in 2020 and become vulnerable to Democrat criticism that the GOP is the party of white men.

The Facebook and Google approved fact-checking service Snopes has once again made a serious error when weighing the factuality of a recent popular meme, claiming the “general idea” of the meme was “correct,” despite it having been debunked.

Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed on Twitter Tuesday night that she will pay her interns a minimum of $15 an hour.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee has been delayed until next week due to the funeral of former President George H.W. Bush.

On Tuesday, former United States Senator Bob Dole dictated that he be assisted out of his wheelchair to pay respect and salute former President George H.W. Bush as he laid in state at the Capitol Rotunda.

More than 100 national conservative leaders demanded Tuesday that Congress tackle illegal aliens on the U.S.-Mexican border in the year-end funding measure, demanding $5 billion for a border wall and other national security safeguards.

The president has threatened a partial shutdown of the government if Congress fails to include $5 billion of additional wall funding into the bill.

Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke blasted Rep. Raúl Grijalva after the latter called on Zinke to resign, noting Grijalva had cost taxpayers nearly $50,000 in “hush money” to a staffer.

Michael Cohen on Thursday morning plead guilty for lying to Congress as part of their investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

A plan to massively expand the importation of low-skilled foreign workers to the United States would allow American businesses to hire an unlimited number of foreigners instead of American citizens. 

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on December 5 about political bias against conservatives and the company’s operations in China — including the censored search app “Project Dragonfly.”

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is reportedly reviewing whether Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey made false statements during his testimony in September.

Organizations financed by George Soros are making a last-ditch effort to get Mississippi Senate candidate Mike Espy elected in today’s runoff race.

Mississippi Senate candidate Mike Espy helped Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign secure a much needed “boost” to move past news media reports of an extramarital affair with Gennifer Flowers.

The GOP megadonor billionaire Koch brothers are asking the Republican-controlled Congress to “seize” upon the lame-duck session to pass amnesty for more than a million illegal aliens enrolled and eligible for President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

The caravan has arrived. Nearly 3,000 aliens are already in Tijuana. Additional hundreds continue to join them each day.

LAUDERHILL, Fla. — Embattled Broward Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes is personally overseeing the search within her headquarters here for purportedly missing ballots to account for the 2,040-vote discrepancy in the number of votes cast in her county during the Midterm Elections.

A majority of Republican voters say there is no other issue more important than illegal immigration, a new poll reveals.

Progressive Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said Tuesday the time has come to begin laying the groundwork to vote on a “Medicare for all” bill as Democrats stand poised to lead the House in January.

Hillary Clinton has involved herself in the Florida recount, sending out a blast email to supporters seeking donations to help pay for legal resources and support staff so that Sen. Bill Nelson has what he needs to “win this fight.”

Voters in the midterm elections rejected House Speaker Paul Ryan’s economic libertarian ideology of tax cuts and entitlement reform, yet again.

Incumbent Democrat Congressman Tom O’Halleran won re-election by just over six percent over Republican challenger and Air Force veteran Wendy Rogers in the Tuesday midterm election.

Vice President Mike Pence made the case on election day that voters must choose between the results brought about by President Trump and Republicans, or those who will reverse that progress.

Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher held a nine-point advantage over Democrat challenger Harley Rouda in a new poll as Republicans fight to hold control of the House.

WASHINGTON, DC – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) welcomed President Donald Trump’s raising the issue of birthright citizenship, and announced that he supports Congress’s exploring the issue of how birthright citizenship relates to the children of illegal aliens.

Republican congressional candidate Wendy Rogers is telling Arizonans the security of their southern border could come down to their vote as a migrant caravan moves ever closer to the United States.

“Somebody really messed up, and they had the worst cover-up ever,” Trump said, “Whoever thought of that idea, I think is in big trouble. And they should be in big trouble.”

Republicans and Democrats kept questions rolling as to who will control the House after midterm election battles play out, as several polls were released Friday.

A Gallup poll released this week reveals that 73 percent of likely voters disapprove of the job Congress is doing, with only 21 percent approving of its work.

President Donald Trump signaled optimism for Republicans in the midterm elections on Wednesday, after conducting over 30 campaign rallies across the country since he was elected.

NEW YORK — Best-selling author and feminist leader Phyllis Chesler expressed concern that actions by the Democratic Party and progressive activists during the confirmation process of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh may have damaged the #MeToo movement and hurt female victims of sexual violence.