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The House is set to vote next week on a bipartisan bill calling for the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein case files. This comes as the federal government is working to get back on track after the longest-ever government shutdown ended.
A bipartisan House push to force disclosure has cleared a key hurdle, but the bill still faces political and procedural roadblocks.
Suozzi’s vote, turns out, wasn’t pivotal as the bill passed 222-209. But he says he made his decision because the shutdown "was becoming untenable, children were not being fed," and "people were going without pay," as President Donald Trump was exerting his leverage to force Democrats to fold.
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Two gun bills fail on Pa. House floor, as issue remains tricky for closely divided legislature
In a relatively rare occurrence, two bills — both gun regulations — were voted down on the House floor in Harrisburg on Tuesday, with a third firearms bill narrowly passing in the closely divided chamber. Legislative leaders can generally count, and it ...
The NDP, Bloc Quebecois and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May voted with the minority Liberals to defeat a Conservative sub-amendment to the budget in the House of Commons.
The House has cleared a key procedural hurdle to set up a final vote on the Senate-passed funding package to reopen the federal government.
Get live updates and the latest news on the Trump administration as the House returns to D.C. for a vote to end the government shutdown and Adelita Grijalva is sworn in as Arizona's newest member of Congress.
President Donald Trump has signed a government funding bill, ending a record 43-day shutdown that caused financial stress for federal workers who went without paychecks, stranded scores of travelers at airports and generated long lines at some