Jul 20 WATCH: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies at House hearing on social media and alleged censorship By Lisa Mascaro, Ali Swenson, Associated Press Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is denying that he traffics in racist and hateful online conspiracy theories, testifying at a House hearing on government censorship despite requests from outside groups to disinvite him. Continue reading
Jul 20 WATCH: Senate Judiciary approves bill to impose stronger ethics standards on Supreme Court By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press The ethics legislation has little chance of passing the Senate — it would need at least nine GOP votes, and Republicans have strongly opposed it — or the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. Continue reading
Jul 19 WATCH: Israeli President Herzog addresses joint meeting of Congress By Farnoush Amiri, Zeke Miller, Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press While lawmakers repeatedly rose to their feet in thundering applause of Herzog's recounting of Israel's founding, a handful of leading young progressive Democrats boycotted his speech. Continue reading
Jul 14 WATCH: House approves GOP-led defense bill that adds abortion restrictions, rolls back diversity initiatives By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press The bill is expected to go nowhere in the Democratic-majority Senate. Continue reading
Jul 12 Watch 5:37 House Republicans grill FBI director over claims of bias and probes of Biden family By Lisa Desjardins, Kyle Midura, Saher Khan The director of the FBI sat on the other side of an interrogation Wednesday, taking sharp criticism before Congress, mostly from the right, but at times from the left as well. Congressional Correspondent Lisa Desjardins sat in on the House… Continue watching
Jun 26 Running for Congress, Sarah McBride would be 1st transgender member of Congress By Associated Press In a video posted to social media, McBride, a Democratic state senator in Delaware, said people deserve a representative “who sees them and who respects them.”… Continue reading
Jun 22 Watch 3:19 Former Texas Congressman Will Hurd becomes latest Republican to launch bid for White House By Lisa Desjardins, Tess Conciatori, Ian Couzens The long list of Republicans seeking their party's nomination for president grew by one more Thursday. Former Congressman Will Hurd of Texas is kicking off his campaign with a direct hit at the field's front-runner, Donald Trump. Lisa Desjardins reports. Continue watching
Jun 22 WATCH: India’s Prime Minister Modi delivers remarks at joint meeting of Congress By Aamer Madhani, Colleen Long, Seung Min Kim, Associated Press In a joint news conference with Modi, Biden called the relationship between the U.S. and India among the most consequential in the world and "more dynamic than at any time in history.”… Continue reading
Jun 21 Republican-led House censures Rep. Schiff over Trump-Russia investigations By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press He was defiant ahead of the vote, saying he will wear the formal disapproval as a “badge of honor" and charging his GOP colleagues of doing the former president's bidding. Continue reading
Jun 12 Watch 12:14 Families with transgender children struggle to navigate wave of anti-trans politics By Laura Barrón-López, Sam Lane, Tess Conciatori Texas is the largest state in the country to ban transition-related medical care for minors, joining 19 other states that have restricted access. Laura Barrón-López recently spent time in Texas to learn more about the law and spoke with one… Continue watching