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The House passed a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package early Saturday that includes $1,400 checks for most Americans and billions of dollars for schools, state and local governments and businesses

Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., said Wednesday that former President Donald Trump did nothing to stop the Capitol Riot. “On Jan. 6, Trump did not once condemn this attack,” Cicilline said. “In fact, on Jan. 6, the only person he condemned was his own vice president, Mike Pence. By all accounts by the people that were around him, [Trump] was delighted.”

Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., on Thursday recalled her experience during the Capitol Riot: “I just remember taking a second thinking, if they touch these doors, if they hit these doors… and come anywhere near my staff, my thought process was, ‘We bangin’ ’til the end.’ I’m not letting them take out my people, and you’re not taking me...

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., reads the Article of Impeachment against former President Donald Trump.

Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., slammed President Donald Trump on Wednesday and called on Congress to impeach the president. “The 117th Congress must understand that we have a mandate to legislate in defense of Black lives. The first step in that process is to root our white supremacy, starting with impeaching the white supremacist-in-chief.”

In a statement on Friday, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called on President Donald Trump to resign. “But if he does not, I have instructed the Rules Committee to be prepared to move forward with Congressman Jamie Raskin’s 25th Amendment legislation and a motion for impeachment.”

The historically close race for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District seat has gotten even closer

FULL INTERVIEW: Former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh sits down with News4’s Jim Rosenfield to discuss his conclusions in the report commissioned by former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno’s family.

Fishermen insisted Monday to a congressional subcommittee looking at offshore wind energy that they be consulted when crucial decisions are being made on the development of such projects, including where they are located and the level of access to the waters near them. Fishermen should have been brought into the planning process from the start, Peter Hughes, of Atlantic Cape...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is being honored with the 2019 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.

Iowa voters sent a record number of women to the Legislature during last year’s midterms. Women won two of the state’s most competitive U.S. House races, and a woman was elected governor for the first time. Yet across Iowa, there’s palpable anxiety among some Democratic women about nominating a female candidate to face off against President Donald Trump next year....

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been named the recipient of the 2019 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.

Ducks Unlimited said Adam Putnam advocated for Florida’s water resources as commissioner and expanded its best management water practices program.

Former Rep. Ralph Hall, a political survivor whose career mirrored the massive partisan shift that marked the last 50 years of Texas politics and made him the oldest person to ever serve in the U.S. House, died Thursday. He was 95.

NBC 6’s Arlene Borenstein has more on the program that is helping those who may be dealing with stress or negativity based on their every day life.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has agreed to deliver a classified briefing to U.S. House lawmakers on Thursday on his recent decision to lift sanctions on companies linked to a Russian oligarch and Vladimir Putin ally, marking the start of an aggressive new focus on Mnuchin by newly empowered House Democrats, according to two top Democratic aides.

A Democrat who finished behind Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin in the first round of balloting has come from behind to flip the seat in the second of its two U.S. House races. Election officials declared Golden the winner Thursday after a federal judge denied Poliquin’s request to halt tabulations under Maine’s new voting system.

Rep. Francis Rooney made his comments during a lunch speech Wednesday in Naples. The first term Republican from Southwest Florida made the comment about “safe zones” in place on some campus to protect students from hateful and harassing speech.