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Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel (D) and Commissioner Brendan Carr (R) testified on the FCC’s 2025 budget request before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on F…

“I’m pleased to report that we saw a strong 2024 tax season for the nation - one of our best in history,” said IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel during his opening testimony before a House Appr…

Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and Council of Economic Advisers Chair Jared Bernstein testified on President Biden’s fiscal year 20…

Former White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney (Trump administration, 2017-20) said, “The rules are not broken. Congress is broken,” referring to the federal debt limit. His comments came …

The House debated extending government funding through February 18, 2022.

The House approved a continuing resolution to fund the government through February 18, 2022, as funding was set at midnight on December 3. The Senate later in the evening also passed the mea…

The House worked on President Biden’s social spending plan, also known as the Build Back Better Act. Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) spoke in opposition to the bill for eight hours and…

In a vote of 219-212, the House voted to suspend the debt ceiling through December 16, 2022. Democratic Representatives Golden (ME) and Schrader (OR) voted “no.” Republican Representative Ki…

The House began work on federal spending for the fiscal year 2022 budget year, a package of seven of the dozen bills that set annual spending. More than 200 amendments were allowed, and a vo…

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) spoke on the floor about next week’s schedule and agenda with House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA). Representative Hoyer said there would not b…

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Democrats held a bill signing ceremony in the Speaker’s Ceremonial Office. The ceremony came after the House passed a bill to fund border security and t…

Congressional Democrats, including House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (MD) and Senators Mark Warner (VA), Chris Van Hollen (MD), and Ben Cardin (MD), participated in a rally held by the AFL-C…

House and Senate Democratic leaders spoke to reporters after a White House meeting in which they said President Trump “walked out” of a meeting to break the impasse over border security and …

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), who was joined by a group of House Democrats from the Washington, D.C.-area who represent a large number of federal workers, urged President Trump t…

On the first day of the 116th Congress, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was joined by fellow House Democratic leaders for a press conference on federal spending amid a partial government shutdow…

Congressional Republican and Democratic leaders spoke to reporters at the White House after a meeting with President Trump and a briefing on the situation at the border with Homeland Securit…

The House debated fiscal year 2019 spending for the Interior and Treasury departments as well as assorted federal agencies.The spending package did not include funds for election security in…

Minority Leader Pelosi and other members of House Democratic leadership spoke to reporters about the government shutdown.

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other House leadership members spoke to reporters as a midnight deadline to fund the government and avert a shutdown approaches.

The House debated a continuing resolution to fund the government through February 16 while negotiations continue on spending for the rest of fiscal year 2018. Beyond the usual funding, the b…