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Hoyer hopes the new top Democrats can replicate the balance of the outgoing three, but the new guard must contend with the polarization of the Republican Party.

Glenn Kirschner issued a damning critique of the former vice president's refusal to testify before the House Jan. 6 committee.

While in Nantucket for Thanksgiving, President Biden told reporters he would try to get rid of assault weapons before the Republican majority takes control of the House. Weijia Jiang reports.

Beyond spending bills, Democrats could also try to push through party priorities while they still have control of both chambers.

New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the top candidate to replace Nancy Pelosi as House Democratic leader, supports studying the feasibility of slavery reparations.

Alaska Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola defeated her general election challengers to represent Alaska's at-large congressional district.

Election wins for abortion rights and Democrats could translate into abortion protections in some states.

"The Late Show" host said the Supreme Court decision about Trump's taxes could spell trouble within the family.

Republican Kevin Kiley, a state legislator who became a conservative favorite for his pointed and relentless criticism of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, captured a U.S. House seat Tuesday in northeastern California. With 83% of ballots counted, Kiley received nearly 53% of the votes to defeat Democrat Kermit Jones, a doctor and Navy veteran. The win will pad the margin of Republican control in the House.

GOP defections might not hinder McCarthy’s bid for speaker after all.

The Supreme Court denied former President Trump's plea to shield his tax returns from being turned over to a House committee.

A Pennsylvania woman linked to the far-right “Groyper” extremist movement has been convicted of several federal charges.

Rep. Ilhan Omar strongly condemned House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy for baselessly threatening to remove her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

More than a quarter of the country wants the GOP to start impeachment investigations against Biden

House Republicans say one of their top investigative priorities is the Biden family businesses, and Hunter Biden's purported laptop could be crucial to those investigations. CBS News commissioned an independent forensic review of what is believed to be Hunter Biden's laptop data. Catherine Herridge reports.

The outgoing congressman is finding new ways to define terrorist threats, while his colleagues are focusing on the national debt and Operation Lone Star.

During appearances on the Sunday morning talk shows, party leaders remained distant in their goals.

"Within a month, the public will have everything that we've found, all the evidence. For good or ill," the California Democrat told "Face the Nation."

Democrats said McCarthy will do whatever his right wing wants him to do because he still lacks the votes to land the speaker's job.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Sunday vowed to remove Democratic Reps. Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff from the House Intelligence Committee.

An Idaho prosecutor said law enforcement is working to "expedite everything" in the search for a suspect that killed four University of Idaho students.

Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he'll strip Rep. Ilhan Omar of her House Foreign Affairs Committee assignment if he is elected speaker in the next term.

Latah County prosecuting attorney Bill Thompson was seen on Saturday entering the Moscow, Idaho, home where four students were killed on Nov. 13.

Independent voters, who keep jumping between the two parties, are hoping to pull politicians closer to the center. The message is not getting through.

Overall, the electorate delivered a warning against going too far, against extremes, but we're likely headed for a messy, partisan two years. Here, five lessons learned from last week's midterms.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to step down from Democratic leadership after 20 years has many women admiring the way she wielded power.

Republican House extremists will be upping the stakes as they compete for attention in a crowded field, the conservative attorney warned.

Idaho police said the roommates of the four University of Idaho students killed last weekend on Nov. 13 are not suspects in the case.

She helped save Obamacare and other transformative legislation, and made it clear when the nonsense had to stop.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a 52-year-old New Yorker, is running to replace House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the leadership ranks.

Four GOP members have signaled their opposition and put him on the cusp of defeat. But there’s a lot yet to play out.

A day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she would step aside, congressman Hakeem Jeffries of New York has announced his history-making bid to become the first Black person to helm a major political party in Congress as leader of the House Democrats.

With Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) decision not to seek reelection as leader, the party moves in a younger direction.

"The Daily Show" host imagined a nightmare scenario involving GOP types like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries announced Friday he was running to replace outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the leader of the House Democrats next Congress.

The law, passed last year as House Bill 20, was recently stayed by the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, pending an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal has taken herself out of the running for Democratic leadership in the next Congress.

House Republican lawmakers plan to launch rigorous oversight of Big Tech companies once in power with the goal of empowering American parents and families.

Katherine Clark is running for the number two leadership post in the House Democratic caucus.

Fox News host Sean Hannity discusses where Republican House GOP members' investigations could be headed on Thursday's 'Hannity.'

The expected formal announcement will be made one day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would not be seeking a leadership role in the new Congress.

The Democrat from California made history when she became the first woman elected House speaker in 2007, and she has served four non-consecutive terms in the role.

Pelosi, 82, has decided to hand off the reins to a younger generation and return to the life of back-bench lawmaker.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the attack on her husband, Paul, by an intruder in their family home made her think about staying on as the House Democratic leader.

During her speech on the House floor Thursday in which she declared she would not seek to be Democratic leader in the next Congress, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she enjoyed working with three presidents and touted achievements with George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. She did not mention Donald Trump, during whose term she was House minority leader and speaker and led two impeachment proceedings against him.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, of New York, is considered the top pick to be the Democrats' leader in the House, after Nancy Pelosi announced she will step down.

Nancy Pelosi was in the car with her brothers when they kept trying to show her the Capitol building for the first time: "And finally, I saw it – a stunning white building with a magnificent dome."

The 82-year-old has led the party in the lower chamber of Congress for almost two decades.

Pelosi's announcement came shortly after Democrats were projected to narrowly lose their House majority to Republicans following the midterm elections.

After months of speculation, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would not seek to lead House Democrats for another term.

Biden knows what he's doing and four other Democrat takeaways from the midterm elections. Pre-election polling wasn’t any good, but Gen Z saved the day.

Pelosi has said that a recent attack on her husband would affect her decision. Kevin McCarthy is the top candidate for speaker in the next Congress.

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The Freedom Caucus is proposing a wide array of changes to House rules to empower congressional committees and give lawmakers more input in the legislative process.

Republicans are once again preparing to launch an oversight offensive. Democrats can’t afford to be unprepared.

Larry Krasner said the GOP-held Pennsylvania House did not show proof linking his policies to rising violent crime. The Senate must vote on whether to convict.

The bill would provide federal recognition and interstate portability of same-sex marriages, but it stops short of guaranteeing a right to such marriages.

The California Republican still needs at least 218 votes to become House speaker. That vote will be on Jan. 3.

The International Committee of the Red Cross says a convoy of trucks carrying medicine arrived in Tigray’s regional capital Mekele.

The midterm elections were a vindication for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who has racked up a series of unexpected legislative victories this year as he has navigated Democrats’ slim 50-50 majority.

At the top of the mind of Houston Independent School District leaders is enrollment.

With control of the House still hanging in the balance, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is staying mum on her future plans.

Democrats will keep control of the Senate, repelling Republican efforts to retake the chamber and making it harder to thwart President Joe Biden’s agenda.

The third-ranking House Republican, Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, is endorsing Donald Trump for president in 2024.

The races for two US House seats in Oregon remain unresolved heading into the weekend, with tens of thousands of ballots left to be counted in the vote-by-mail state.

While Democrats were celebrating a stronger-than-expected midterm performance across much of the U.S. this week, New York was emerging as a notable exception where losses and lackluster results prompted a round of soul-searching and finger-pointing inside the party.

Neither party has reached the necessary threshold to win control in the House or Senate as of early Friday.

Republicans inched closer to a narrow House majority while control of the Senate hinges on tight Arizona, Nevada and Georgia races.

Struggling to claw back power, Republicans are pushing state by state to break the Democrats’ one-party hold on Washington.

Border Democrats in Texas held the line in two key House races.

First lady Jill Biden and U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy were in Texas Sunday to help members of their respective parties energize voters before Election Day.

President Joe Biden has slammed Republicans up and down ballots across the nation as election deniers who reveled in political violence.

President Joe Biden says he is feeling “really good” about Democrats’ chances in the midterm elections, even as he traveled to the Chicago area to support two House members who are facing more competitive reelection battles than expected.

Control of state government hangs in the balance in Minnesota, one of the few Midwest states where Democrats have had the upper hand in recent years.

The conduct committee of the Oregon House has determined that Democratic candidate for governor Tina Kotek did not create a hostile work environment for a lawmaker when she was House speaker.

Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney has endorsed and plans to campaign for Democratic congresswoman Elissa Slotkin of Michigan.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has been invited to address a joint meeting of Congress as Israel prepares to celebrate the 75th anniversary of its founding.

Most Americans are used to casting their ballot for a single person for each office.

High-money donors are concentrated on larger boards, including those of the University of Texas System and Texas A&M University System.

Election Day in 2018 saw Democrats flip more than 40 seats to regain the House majority.

Family members gathered at a Dallas courthouse Friday to speak to a man charged with killing 22 elderly women a week after his second conviction.

Never-before-seen video footage played Thursday by the House Jan. 6 committee shows House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders, including Republican allies of Donald Trump, responding anxiously — and angrily — to the insurrection at the Capitol.

President Joe Biden’s visit to California and Oregon this week comes close to Election Day and shows how Democrats are calling in reinforcements in states that are typically afterthoughts for the party.

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene once was shunned as a political pariah for her extremist rhetoric.

House hunting? Fancy yourself a “Star Wars” fanatic? Searching for a sinister sanctum where you can plot galactic domination and channel the Dark Side of the Force? Or, more simply, just need someplace to store your life-size storm troopers?

Two Louisiana parishes devastated by two hurricanes and two rural Nebraska counties had among the highest rates of households with missing information about themselves during the 2020 census that required the U.S. Census Bureau to use a statistical technique to fill in gaps.

Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney says the Republican candidates for Arizona governor and secretary of state pose a huge risk for democracy because both say they will refuse to certify election results if they don’t like the results.

Residents living in parts of central Florida donned fishing waders, boots and bug spray and canoed or kayaked their way to their homes on streets where floodwaters continued rising Sunday despite it being four days since Hurricane Ian tore through the state.

All day today, the KPRC 2 team is helping to paint a house for a deserving local family in need.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says he will “proudly support” legislation to overhaul rules for certifying presidential elections, bolstering a bipartisan effort to revise a 19th century law and avoid another Jan. 6 insurrection.

Abortion laws in South Carolina almost certainly won’t get more restrictive after Republicans in the General Assembly couldn’t agree on a total ban.

Neighbors living near a property deemed a nuisance said they’ve waited years for Monday’s abatement.

Members of Congress have officially objected to the results in four of the last six presidential elections.

An effort by Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward and her husband to block a subpoena of their phone records issued by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has been rejected by a judge.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is rolling out his party's Trump-like midterm election agenda.

House Democrats have pushed through a long-sought policing and public safety package after overcoming internal differences on legislation they plan to make central to their election-year pitch.

A deal has been struck by the progressive and centrist factions of the Democratic caucus to bring a long-awaited policing bill to the House floor just weeks before the midterm elections.

The central idea behind House and Senate bills to reform an arcane federal election law is simple: Congress should not decide presidential elections.

Sen. Joe Manchin on Tuesday railed against what he called “revenge politics″ being used against him, as liberals in the House and Senate team up with Republicans to oppose his plan to speed permits for natural gas pipelines and other energy projects.

House Democrats are voting this week on changes to a 19th century law for certifying presidential elections.