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A GOP bill approved Friday would require the government to offset any non-emergency withdrawals from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with new drilling on public lands and oceans.

A group of House Republicans is revisiting the Fair Tax Act, which would replace certain federal taxes with a national sales tax and decentralize the IRS.

A group of House Democrats announced Thursday they were forming the Congressional Dads Caucus to focus on family issues.

A similar bill was unveiled by other lawmakers in the House and Senate in the last Congress, but it was not considered in either chamber.

Rep. George Santos made a significant revision to his 2022 campaign filings Tuesday by specifying that a $500,000 loan he made to the campaign didn’t come from his personal funds.

A U.S. congressman from Florida who was seriously injured in a tree-trimming accident in Sarasota says he has been discharged from the hospital and is recovering at home.

The U.S. government reached the nation’s legal borrowing limit on Thursday, forcing the Treasury Department to resort to “extraordinary measures” to avoid a default.

U.S. Rep. Greg Steube’s office didn’t share any details on his injuries or how serious they were.

Economists say consequences of a default on the national debt could include higher interest rates, a stock market crash, a recession and massive job losses. NBC’s Alice Barr reports.

The latest controversy around embattled Rep, George Santos involves a dying dog and a GoFundMe campaign.

U.S. Capitol Police investigated 7,501 threats against members of Congress in 2022, according to new figures released Tuesday.

New York Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-15) on Tuesday called upon the Federal Election Commission to investigate George Santos. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has notified Congress that the U.S. is projected to reach its debt limit on Thursday and will then resort to “extraordinary measures” to avoid default.

Slamming the coverage of his travails as “media nonsense,” Rep. George Santos on Thursday defiantly insisted he had no plans to resign from Congress.

The federal government is on track to max out on its $31.4 trillion borrowing authority as soon as this month. That starts the clock on an expected standoff between President Joe Biden and the new House Republican majority. Both political parties’ ability to navigate a divided Washington will be tested, with the fragile global economy at stake. Once the cap...

Freshman Republican Rep. George Santos of New York recently was found to have lied about and embellished details of his resume.

Electing the House speaker may have been the easy part. Now House Republicans will try to govern. Speaker Kevin McCarthy passed his first tests late Monday as the Republicans approved their rules package for governing House operations, typically a routine step on Day One that stretched into the second week of the new majority. It was approved 220-213, a party-line vote with one Republican opposed....

Republican Kevin McCarthy has been elected House speaker on a historic post-midnight 15th ballot, overcoming holdouts from his own ranks.

The House stalemate over choosing a new speaker has held firm through a long, excruciating third day and evening of voting with no conclusion. But glimmers of a deal began to emerge late Thursday. Party leader Kevin McCarthy is determined to win over enough fellow Republicans. He has offered the conservative holdouts rule changes to give them more power to...