Hidilyn Diaz won the Philippines’ first-ever Olympic gold medal for weightlifting on Monday, earning her an additional cash prize of $600,000 from the Philippine government and private companies, along with a new home, the Manila Bulletin reported on Tuesday.
The LGBTQ Business Equal Credit Enforcement and Investment Act and the Equal Access to Contraception for Veterans Act passed by a simple majority vote.
Republican Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) introduced a bill on Thursday in an effort to ban the federal government from issuing vaccine passports.
A small sector of the House Republican Conference has cleaved off in support of the Equal Access to Contraception for Veterans Act.
The Senate on Friday confirmed Lloyd Austin as the Pentagon’s first black defense secretary in a bipartisan 93-2 vote.
Newly reelected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) chided members over strict adherence to “respecting proper health and safety guidelines” on the House floor in the era of the Chinese coronavirus less than 24 hours after making an exception, allowing exposed lawmakers to break quarantine to vote in the speakership election, which she won by less than a majority.
The massive 5,593-page bill was passed by both the House and the Senate on Monday night but immediately drew criticism for only sending $600 of direct aid to each American.
The Senate joined the House on Monday evening in passing a coronavirus relief and stimulus bill nearly 6,000 pages long.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a massive $900 billion coronavirus relief and stimulus bill on Monday evening, mere hours after the nearly 6,000-page legislation was released.
During a press conference on Friday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stated that having a smaller majority in the House will not force her to compromise more and “won’t have that much effect at all” on how she legislates.
During a press conference on Friday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) responded to a question on whether she accepts responsibility for Democrats losing House seats by saying she accepts the credit for Democrats holding the majority in the House of
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) courted moderate Democrats to switch parties and noted “if they switched, they wouldn’t be switching into the minority party. Because if only a few
During a press conference on Friday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stated that she doesn’t see any sort of corrective message from voters to House Democrats in the results of the 2020 election, and that while some of her members
During an interview with MSNBC on Thursday, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) said that he doesn’t “think anything went wrong” for House Democrats in the 2020 election. Clyburn said, “I don’t think anything went wrong.” He added that Democrats
The GOP picked up a number of House seats and fended off many challengers from Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats during the overnight counting.
Dozens of people came out to help repaint the house of a 45-year-old former teacher from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, after he was told by his doctors that he had only months to live.
The House voted this week to ban federal employees from downloading the Chinese social media app TikTok on government devices as part of a $741 billion defense policy bill.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) stated that the House of Representatives’ new proxy voting rules are “unconstitutional,” and that any significant pieces of legislation that are passed under the rules
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) commented on the House not meeting until May 4 by stating that there is an urgency to pass another coronavirus bill, but they need “agreement on the part
The House will consider the Senate-passed coronavirus economic aid package on Friday that would provide immediate relief for Americans suffering from the impact of the coronavirus impact.
A 1,400 page early draft of the bill already made the rounds in Washington, DC, on Monday and includes a provision that demands every corporation receiving coronavirus rescue funds report data on racial and gender diversity.
President Donald Trump endorsed 20 House candidates in the Republican Congressional primaries on Tuesday, and those 20 candidates were victorious.
123 Republicans in the Senate and House are pleading with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf to bring more foreign workers to the United States to compete against working-class Americans for jobs.
Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA) is denying that she had an affair with two different staff members despite photographic and text message evidence of the affairs published by conservative website Red State.
Stop Child Predators, an organization that works to protect children from sexual predators, has sent a letter to the Judiciary and Commerce Committees of both the House and the Senate asking lawmakers to investigate alleged violations of children’s privacy by the Masters of the Universe.
President Donald Trump responded to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday, vowing that he would not cave in the shutdown fight over border security.
President Donald Trump pointed to his 2016 win, crediting it in part to a platform of strong borders as he fought Saturday for $5 billion in border barrier and security funding.
“Thank you to our GREAT Republican Members of Congress for your VOTE to fund Border Security and the Wall,” Trump wrote about the vote, in which House Republicans passed the bill with a 217-185 vote.
The revised House spending bill to continue funding the federal government for the next two months has an added provision that funds $5.7 billion worth of border wall construction without any contingencies.
President Donald Trump called for a meeting with House Republicans on Thursday, signaling that he did not want to move forward to fund the government without additional funds for border security.
