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Former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz waited until after House IT network-banned staffer Imran Awan was arrested and allegedly tried to flee the country to Pakistan before firing him.

Senior White House Adviser Jared Kushner testified in front of a closed-door House hearing Tuesday and appeared to satisfy lawmakers questioning him on claims of alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 election. Kushner appeared before the House Intelligence Committee for approximately

Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday regarding the Senate’s healthcare vote delay and House GOP plans to release its new budget.

Monday on “CBS This Morning,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) responded to calls from some of her colleagues that she should step down as minority leader. Pelosi dismissed those calls and continued to claim she was a “master legislator.”

As President Donald Trump begins moving to fulfill a campaign promise by renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), several Michigan Democrats are warning him to work closely with Congress in the effort.

After describing President Donald Trump’s role in passing the American Health Care Act through the House as “incredibly engaged” this week, Principle Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she certainly thinks the President will remain as involved moving the bill through the Senate.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer insisted that there was no option to repeal and replace Obamacare other than the bill put forward by Speaker Paul Ryan and House Republicans.

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) talked about the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) scoring for the House Republican Obamacare replacement bill on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily.

A group of House Democrats introduced a resolution Monday that slams President Trump and calls him out for “fake news” and false statements.

The sole Navy SEAL veteran congressman told Breitbart News the special warfare community prefers not to discuss operations — such as the raid in which Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens was killed — but President Donald Trump’s salute to his widow

A group of 25 Republican House lawmakers, joined by one Democrat, have sent a letter urging President Donald Trump to significantly increase funding to various programs aimed at developing an earth- and space-based “robust missile defense architecture” capable of protecting the U.S. homeland against “any threat from any nation,” not just Iran and North Korea.

On Tuesday, the House passed the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2017, a measure that would permanently prohibit taxpayer dollars from being used to fund abortions and make the Hyde Amendment permanent across all federal expenditures.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday for disavowing the UN Security Council’s resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity as a “flagrant violation of international law.”

Vice President Joe Biden shut down a Democratic challenger to the Electoral College certificate that verifies President-elect Donald Trump’s win on Friday, telling Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) “It is over.”

On Thursday, the House of Representatives will vote on a bipartisan resolution condemning United Nations Security Council’s Resolution 2334,which calls Israeli construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem “illegal.”

Breitbart News Senior Editor Peter Schweizer, head of the Government Accountability Institute and author of Clinton Cash, talked about the ill-fated effort by House Republicans to reform the ethics oversight system on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily.

On Tuesday beginning at 1:30 p.m. ET, the 115th Congress will convene, which includes the swearing in of new members. Follow Breitbart.tv on Twitter @BreitbartVideo

TEL AVIV – An anti-Semitism bill unanimously approved by the Senate earlier this month aimed at combating harassment of Jewish students on college campuses failed to pass the House of Representatives.

Liberal columnist Dana Milbank says that Nancy Pelosi should step down as the Democrats’ House Minority Leader and allow “some fresh blood to take on Donald Trump.”

House Democrats fear that they are losing white, working-class voters due to the party’s shift toward urban and suburban voters.

The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday for legislation to extend American sanctions on Iran for 10 years, a move that proponents called critical economic leverage to ensure Iranian compliance with an international nuclear agreement.

The 2016 election cycle brought a continuation of the decimation of the Democrat Party in the era of Obama, with Democrats losing ground all across the nation, from Washington D.C. to state and county offices.

Republicans will maintain at least a foothold in the federal government by retaining their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, though control of the Senate is still too early to call.

Vice President Joe Biden denounced disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner, the husband of close Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

Wednesday at her weekly press briefing, when asked about Republicans having an advantage in the battle for the control of the House of Representatives because of redistricting, Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said, “If you say that, then you

The widow of a man who perished in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks filed a lawsuit against U.S. ally Saudi Arabia soon after Congress enacted a law over President Barack Obama’s veto that allows Americans to sue the Arab kingdom in connection to the attacks that killed more than 3,000 more than 15 years ago.

Saudi Arabia and its allies have reportedly threatened to retaliate against the United States over a law that allows the families of 9/11 victims to sue the Gulf Arab kingdom in U.S. court for any role it may have played in the 2001 attacks.

Democrats are eyeing what they see as the potential for a major pickup in November with retired Marine Col. Doug Applegate facing off against longtime Republican incumbent Rep. Darrell Issa for his seat in the House of Representatives.

The woman leading Democrats in the House of Representatives told delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia Thursday that electing Hillary R. Clinton the first female president of the United States means achieving the dreams and hopes and aspirations of every woman, every daughter, every son, and every family, all across our land, for generations to come.

U.S. lawmakers this week will consider three Republican-backed measures targeting the Obama administration’s nuclear agreement with Iran, which bitterly divides Washington a year after it was announced and could play a role in November’s elections.

A Texas congressman who attended the Thursday morning meeting between GOP presumptive presidential nominee Donald J. Trump and the members of the House Republican Conference told Breitbart News it was a productive meeting, with GOP congressmen showing genuine affection and respect for the New York City developer.

House Speaker Paul Ryan tells his Republican party members they’d better get used to “taking tough votes,” such as one to ban the Confederate flag at historic cemeteries controlled by the federal government.

Michigan Representative Candice Miller has decided to banish all state flags from the Capitol tunnel because some contain elements of the Confederate flag, reports reveal.

Wisconsin congressman Rep. Reid Ribble joined Badger state Gov. Scott Walker in endorsing Sen. Ted Cruz for president this week, just ahead of the state’s Tuesday Republican primary contest.

House Speaker Paul Ryan spoke on the Sunday broadcast of “The Cats Roundtable” on New York City’s AM 970 about his upcoming plans for Congress and the 2016 general election. He told host John Catsimatidis that the House plans to go “on offense

The Muslim Brotherhood is lashing out after a bill put forward by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) — which seeks to designate the radical Islamic group as a terrorist organization — has gained traction in Congress.