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A man in the audience of the January 6 Committee hearing on Tuesday struggled to stay awake, as seen in a video that shows the man dozing off during a witness testimony.

Progressive Democrat Mondaire Jones (D-NY) said during a House Judiciary Committee on Thursday that Democrats would go to extraordinary lengths to pass major gun control.

Democrats in the House Judiciary Committee will hold a vote on a gun control package Thursday which contains a ban on “high capacity” magazines and requires a background check for “ghost guns.”

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) confronted Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a hearing Thursday about the 1.2 million illegal aliens living freely in America who have received final orders of deportation.

President Joe Biden’s top Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials intervened at the last minute to stop a group of Republican lawmakers from viewing the United States-Mexico border in the evening, when border crossers use holes in the unfinished border wall to cross illegally into the U.S. 

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) slammed Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) over his handling of an investigation into the National School Boards Association (NSBA) letter asking the Biden administration to investigate parents as “domestic terrorists,” as Democrats try to “pass this bill which is going to codify the whole plot.”

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is demanding answers from the National School Boards Association (NSBA) regarding its “collusion” with the Biden administration to use federal law enforcement to investigate parents attending school board meetings as “domestic terrorists.”

Every year, more than 7,000 American citizens and green card-holders lose out on United States taxpayer-funded residencies to foreign nationals despite having earned their degrees as medical graduate physicians, bombshell congressional testimony reveals. 

Rep. Steube has yet to hear from the D.C. Department of Corrections, whose director he queried in July about the status of the Jan. 6 detainees.

Rep. Greg Steube told SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily that Biden could face investigations into his China ties and open border policies.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) on Wednesday batted down an attempt by ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to subpoena officials involved in the FBI investigating concerned parents as “domestic terrorists” at the behest of the National School Boards Association (NSBA).

The House Judiciary Committee Democrats led by chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) called in a climate extremist to their hearing on Wednesday who will testify that the process of federal agency rulemaking is killing the environment and disadvantaging mainly racial minorities.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) demanded on Thursday that the FBI submit to the House Judiciary Committee any records related to counterterrorism tools that the agency used against parents expressing outrage at school boards, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

Republicans blasted the “disgrace[ful]” move, as well as Attorney General Merrick Garland, with many calling for his immediate resignation.

A whistleblower Tuesday revealed to the House Judiciary Committee that the FBI deployed “counterterrorism tools” to target concerned parents participating in local school board meetings.

House Judiciary Republicans disclosed a whistleblower showed FBI is using counterterrorism tactics to investigate parents, calling into question Garland’s sworn testimony.

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee passed Rep. Lucy McBath’s (D-GA) red flag legislation on Wednesday.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) grilled U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday about the apparent double standard in prosecutions of January 6 rioters for offenses that Democratic members of Congress had committed without consequence.

House Judiciary Republicans are calling on members of the media to demand answers from President Biden, questioning if his administration believes Americans will be left behind in Afghanistan as the Taliban-approved August 31 deadline for U.S. withdrawal approaches.

House Judiciary Committee Republicans are calling on President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to testify before the committee amid a surge in illegal immigration during Biden’s first five months in office, according to a letter first obtained by Breitbart News.

Federal law enforcement agencies secretly request the data of Microsoft customers thousands of times per year, according to the congressional testimony of Tom Burt, the company’s VP for customer security and trust.

House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy on Sunday night released a “framework” he argued to House Republicans would help rein in Big Tech companies from engaging in censorship and silencing of conservatives.

House Judiciary Committee Republicans are expressing frustration with their Democrat colleagues for what they say is a misuse of the committee’s resources after it released on Wednesday the transcribed testimony of former White House counsel Don McGahn in relation to the Mueller report from two years ago.

House Judiciary and Oversight Committee Republicans have launched a probe into the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Wuhan Lab grant.

House Republican members demand an investigation into the massive “influence” teachers unions had over the Center for Disease (CDC) guidelines and the timeline for reopening schools.

Sen. Tom Cotton warned of consequences for Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats after he stated they “broke the rules” to advance the nomination of Vanita Gupta to serve as Associate Attorney General.

President Biden is “committed” to the concept of setting up a commission to examine issuing reparations to black Americans for slavery, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) said this week.

McALLEN, Texas — Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) finds the Democrat Party is failing to acknowledge the issue of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, he told Breitbart News in an interview Wednesday during his two-day trip to Texas.

McALLEN, Texas — Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) during a two-day visit to the U.S.-Mexico border described the main federal border facility in Donna, which is far exceeding its capacity, as “chaos,” providing his remarks to Breitbart News on Wednesday after a roundtable meeting with congressional colleagues and Texas officials.

Republican lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee demanded Alejandro Mayorkas, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary, release documents from the Trump administration DHS to the Biden transition team warning of an immigration surge if there is a reversal of President Donald Trump’s policies.

House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jim Jordan (R-OH) said during a hearing Friday that a Democrat bill would give establishment media outlets “cartel power.” 

House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Thursday formally demanded Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos provide to the committee all communication related to recent instances of alleged censorship of conservative viewpoints, according to a letter first obtained by Breitbart News.

Republican lawmakers Jim Jordan (OH) and Matt Gaetz (FL) are pushing Democrats to examine the issue of individual rights under conservatorships, citing pop music icon Britney Spears’ conservatorship as one high profile example.

House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) on Thursday shut down Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) request to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of committee hearings.

GOP lawmakers from both chambers are calling for a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden’s business dealings with China.

Top Republicans on the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees Jim Jordan (OH) and James Comer (KY) flagged recent reports of 2020 election voting irregularities in a letter on Wednesday, and urged the committee chairmen to hold a hearing on them.