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WATCH: House Oversight hearing on closures of schools during COVID-19 pandemic

By News Desk

"The decision to close schools, in response to COVID-19, proved harmful for students’ academic, mental, physical, and social success," Select Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) said.

WATCH: House Oversight holds hearing on origins of COVID-19

By Associated Press

The House Oversight Committee held a hearing on Wednesday on the origins of COVID-19 following a new report from the Energy Department that it had determined, with low confidence, that the novel coronavirus had escaped from a lab in China.

GOP officially requests records from Biden’s family on foreign business deals

By Farnoush Amiri, Associated Press

House Republicans have made the first official requests for documents from Hunter and James Biden regarding foreign business dealings.

WATCH: Club Q shooting survivors urge Congress to act on guns

By News Desk

Survivors of last month’s deadly mass shooting testified to Congress about the onslaught of threats and violence against members of the LGBTQ community as they urged lawmakers to pass a law banning some semiautomatic weapons.

House panel calls Donald Trump’s bills to Secret Service ‘exorbitant’

By Bernard Condon, Associated Press

Donald Trump's private company arranged for the Secret Service to pay for rooms at his properties in excess of government-approved rates at least 40 times during his presidency — including two charges for more than $1,100 per night.

WATCH: House committee holds hearing on harm done to patients from abortion restrictions

By Associated Press

An analysis released be the committee prior to the hearing says a Republican national abortion ban would take away reproductive freedom from nearly 64 million women across the country—roughly twice the number impacted by current state restrictions.

WATCH: U.S. government failed to take prevent fraud in COVID-19 relief programs, Clyburn says

By Jennifer McDermott, Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press

The head of a congressional panel says the U.S. failed to take basic steps at the start of the coronavirus pandemic to prevent fraud in a federal aid program intended to help small businesses.

WATCH: Families, surviving classmates of Uvalde victims testify on gun violence in House hearing

By Farnoush Amiri, Kevin Freking, Associated Press

An 11-year-old girl who survived the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, recounted in video testimony to Congress on Wednesday how she covered herself with a dead classmate’s blood to avoid being shot.

WATCH: House oversight hearing on defending the U.S. electric grid against cyber threats

By Associated Press

The House Oversight Committee held a hearing on defending the U.S. electric grid against cyber threats on Tuesday.

WATCH: FBI Director Wray testifies before House Oversight Committee on Jan. 6 Capitol attack

By Associated Press

A top Army leader is defending the Pentagon’s response to the Jan. 6 insurrection. Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt told a House panel Tuesday that the National Guard was delayed for hours because it had to properly prepare for the deployment.