House set to vote on measures in the coming weeks. On Thursday, the Senate voted on a bill that would renew expired surveillance powers for the federal government…
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House Gives OK to Voting Change
Proxy voting could change dynamics of legislative branch. Neither the Civil War nor the Great Depression nor any other national crisis has brought the House of Representatives to…
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House Bill Proposes Mandatory National Testing
TRACE Act would authorize agents to visit citizens’ homes to test for COVID-19. The “Testing, Reaching, and Contacting Everyone” bill was introduced earlier this month in the House…
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House Announces COVID-19 Aid Bill
If passed, bill will be largest relief package in history. On Tuesday, the House of Representatives announced the latest COVID-19 stimulus bill to counter the economic effects of…
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House Lawmakers Launch “China Task Force”
They will look at breadth of China’s influence in U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced the formation of a “China Task Force” to coordinate a strategy against…
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House Speaker Fills COVID-19 Oversight Committee
Democrat-run committee will be focused on relief spending. On Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House members who would make up the newly created special committee focused…
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Speaker Names Virus Stimulus Oversight Panel
Seven House members are all partisans. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi named seven lawmakers to a committee tasked with overseeing coronavirus stimulus money. The move comes after reports surfaced…
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Speaker Pulls Plug on House Remote Voting
Rules Committee had submitted nine-page plan. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has told majority leaders to back off plans to consider unprecedented rule changes to allow members…
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House Could Vote Virus Money Thursday
More than half of Representatives could return to Washington. Majority Whip Steny Hoyer said on Tuesday that more than half of the members of the U.S. House of…
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Bipartisan House Group Has Reopening Plan
Problem Solvers Caucus focuses on mass testing. A bipartisan group of 50 members of the House of Representatives has crafted a plan on what is needed to reopen…
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