CAROLYN MALONEY

Rep. James Comer has a balancing act ahead of him as the new chairman of the powerful House Oversight and Accountability Committee.

Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, has introduced a last-minute bill that could help protect the 2030 census and other counts from political interference. It's unlikely to move ahead.

A Democratic congresswoman said Republicans incite violence against the LGBT community as they promote bills to limit the exposure of transgenderism to children.

Survivors of last month’s deadly mass shooting at a Colorado gay nightclub have 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.

The Washington Commanders have been sued again by the District of Columbia.

House investigators say a federal contractor that provided identity verification services for the Internal Revenue Service overstated its capacity to perform its services.

Government officials from six foreign nations — including Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey — spent over $750,000 at the Trump International Hotel during his presidency, according to new documents.

In a story published November 14, 2022, about foreign government spending at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, The Associated Press erroneously reported Saudi Arabia spent at least $164,929 at the hotel in 2017 and 2018, the same time it was trying to win over U.S. support after its invasion and blockade of Qatar.

Eric Trump in 2019 said that the government "saves a fortune because if they were to go to a hotel across the street, they'd be charging them $500 a night, whereas, you know we charge them, like $50."

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 room, per night.

Congress is investigating the crisis that left 150,000 people in Mississippi’s capital city without running water for several days in late summer.

New documents indicate Trump-owned properties repeatedly charged the Secret Service rates far higher than government rates, as high as $1,185 per room per night.

Dan Snyder's ownership of Washington's NFL franchise has been a matter of considerable debate for years.

Lawyers representing Washington Commanders owner Daniel Snyder wrote an aggressively toned letter to members of the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee.

The New York Times correspondent has been covering the world of Donald Trump since her days as a metro reporter in the late 1990s. Maggie Haberman talks with CBS News' John Dickerson about her new book, "Confidence Man," and about how the real estate developer/casino owner's "playbook" has not changed since he entered politics.

The National Archives has informed congressional lawmakers that a number of electronic communications from Trump White House staffers remain missing, nearly two years since the administration was required to turn them over.

The House has passed legislation on a party-line vote that aims to make it harder for future presidents to interfere in the once-a-decade headcount that determines political power and federal funding.

The U.S. House has passed a bill that could help protect the 2030 census and other future head counts from political interference. But it's not clear how much support the bill has in the Senate.

The FBI recovered thousands of records, including dozens that the Justice Department says were marked as classified, during a court-approved search on Aug. 8 at Mar-a-Lago.

House oversight chair Carolyn Maloney says Trump has squandered any benefit of doubt and must now attest that he's returned all classified materials.

A congressional oversight committee has requested an assessment from the National Archives on whether presidential records removed by former President Donald Trump remain unaccounted for and potentially in his possession.

Two key lawmakers want the government to investigate whether airlines used federal pandemic-relief money to encourage employees to quit.

Two House Democrats asked the Treasury Department watchdog to review airlines' use of the more than $50 billion in aid for staff buyouts.

John Miller, who has switched between journalism and law enforcement in a lengthy career, has been hired by CNN as its chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst.

A House committee seeking financial records from former President Donald Trump has reached an agreement that ends litigation on the matter and requires his accounting firm to turn over certain records to the panel.

In their Aug. 8 search at Mar-a-Lago, FBI agents seized 11 sets of classified documents.

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said there will be "a classification review of relevant materials, including those recovered during the search."

In addition to the primary races, New Yorkers elected two new House members to fill vacancies for the rest of the year.

The two incumbents, who both chair powerful committees for the House Democratic caucus, were placed in the same district after redistricting.

Rep. Jerry Nadler will defeat his colleague Rep. Carolyn Maloney in a vicious House Democratic primary in New York, NBC News projected.

Voters will choose Tuesday between U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler and U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney in a rare face-off between incumbents due to redistricting.

U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler has defeated U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney in a Democratic primary after a court forced the two veteran lawmakers into the same New York City congressional district.

Two New York Democrats were ousted from the U.S. House in primary elections Tuesday after redistricting shuffled congressional districts in one of the nation’s largest liberal states.

U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist has won the Democratic nomination for governor in Florida, putting him in position to challenge Gov. Ron DeSantis this fall in a campaign the Republican incumbent is eyeing as the first step toward a potential White House run.

Two New York City Congressional titans go head-to-head, a crowded primary with a Trump impeachment lawyer, and more on the ballot on Tuesday.

Tuesday’s primary elections feature two top Florida Democrats squaring off for the right to face Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Statements from GOP leaders including Trump, Kevin McCarthy and Mike Pence "coincided" with a rise in belligerent online rhetoric, Maloney and Lynch wrote.

After declining to appear before Congress, chief executive says weapons maker "will never back down" in firearms debate.

President Joe Biden insists he intends to seek reelection in 2024.

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMediaThe Biden-Harris administration has declared monkeypox a public health emergency, a move they said would free emergency funding and improve the distribution of vaccines and treatments. We are taking our response to the next level by declaring a public health emergency,” Becerra stated. The World Health Organization has already declared a global health emergency. New York, the epicenter of the outbreak, Illinois and California have all declared public health emergencies. “I commend Secretary Becerra for heeding my call to declare the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency,” said New York Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney, chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

Trump also made apparently sarcastic endorsements of Democratic Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerry Nadler.

In July, Smith & Wesson CEO Mark Smith did not participate in an Oversight Committee hearing on the gun business.

The Department of Homeland Security inspector general says he's following federal guidelines for ongoing probes.

The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general has refused congressional requests for documents and staff testimony about the erasure of Secret Service communication related to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack at the Capitol.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York is endorsing Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler in his contentious primary contest with another veteran U.S. House member from New York, Carolyn Maloney.

The FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate sent reverberations across the country, even before court papers were unsealed Friday.

Two powerful House Democrats from New York are declining to say whether President Joe Biden should run for the White House again in 2024.

The gunmaker Smith & Wesson is facing new scrutiny from Congress.

Top congressional Democrats have requested sit-down interviews and internal documents from the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general.

Gun industry executives told Congress that murderers are to blame for mass shootings, not firearms.

A U.S. House investigation has found that gun manufacturers have taken in more than $1 billion from selling AR-15-style guns over the past decade.

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMediaA congressional oversight committee has planned a hearing to examine the role of the firearms industry in America’s gun violence epidemic. After most mass shootings, social media fills up with posts about thoughts and prayers from lawmakers and others. The Biden Administration promised to continue to use “all of the tools at its disposal” to address the epidemic of gun violence. On July 7, following the Independence Day shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, Maloney sent letters to the CEOs of several gun manufacturers requesting their appearance at a committee hearing on gun violence. “Our hearing will examine the role of gun manufacturers in flooding our communities with weapons of war and fueling America’s gun violence crisis,” Maloney continued.

Reps. Bennie Thompson and Carolyn Maloney write in a letter that the IG's actions "cast serious doubt on his independence and his ability to effectively conduct such an important investigation."

Political divides in the U.S. seem deeper than ever, but one of the few shared sentiments right now from voters of all stripes is the desire for something different.

Some Trump administration officials had initial doubts that it was legal to put a citizenship question on the 2020 census but pressed forward and attempted to add it.

Members of the Women's Democratic Caucus were arrested for blocking the street Tuesday.

A U.S. Census Bureau director couldn’t be fired without cause and new questions to a census form would have to be vetted by Congress under proposed legislation that attempts to prevent in the future the type of political interference into the nation’s head count that took place during the Trump administration.

The attorney for Dan Snyder told the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform there is no reason for the owner of the Washington Commanders to testify under subpoena for the congressional investigation into the NFL team’s workplace culture.

The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform has accepted an offer for Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder to testify virtually July 28.

A U.S. House committee says Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder conducted a “shadow investigation” that sought to discredit former employees making accusations of workplace sexual harassment.

A lawyer representing Dan Snyder told Congress the Washington Commanders owner will not testify at a hearing next week as part of an investigation into the team’s workplace conduct.

A U.S. House committee has approved legislation that would put voluntary questions about sexual orientation and gender identity on federal surveys.

Lawmakers on Wednesday fielded heart-wrenching testimony on the nation's gun violence, with parents, a pediatrician and experts pleading for change.

An 11-year-old girl who survived the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, has told members of Congress how she covered herself in her dead classmate’s blood and played dead to avoid being shot.

Jerold Nadler and Carolyn Maloney are lobbying New York's wealthiest to back their campaigns as they face off in what could be an expensive primary.

Two of New York’s longest-serving members of Congress have turned from allies to rivals after a court redrew the state’s congressional maps.

The hearing will look at the human impact of gun violence in America and urge lawmakers to pass stricter gun control legislation.

The hearing will look at the human impact of gun violence in America and urge lawmakers to pass stricter gun control legislation.

Parents of victims and survivors of the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde will appear before a House committee next week as Congress debates gun measures.

The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform has invited NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder to appear at a hearing later this month.

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he will run for Congress in a redrawn district that includes his Brooklyn home.

New York’s political landscape for the next decade is being quickly retooled by a rural judge and out-of-state expert after a court ruled Democrats controlling New York's legislature bungled the job.

A court-appointed expert released a draft of new congressional maps for New York that are more favorable to Republicans than the original gerrymandered political maps drawn by Democrats.

Congressional investigators say executives at Emergent BioSolutions covered up quality control problems at a factory making COVID-19 vaccines.

Lawmakers vowed to continue investigating consulting firm McKinsey’s company after a hearing scrutinizing the company's for the Food and Drug Administration even as it advised opioid drugmakers on boosting sales.

Republicans are laying the groundwork to make Hunter Biden and his business dealings a central target of their investigative and oversight efforts.

Two House committees have launched an investigation into the government’s use of facial recognition software.

The Justice Department has declined a request this week from the House oversight committee regarding the contents of records that former President Donald Trump took to his Florida residence after leaving the White House.

A congressional committee says the Justice Department is interfering with an investigation into former President Donald Trump.

A congressional oversight committee on Thursday said the Justice Department is “obstructing” its investigation into former President Donald Trump's handling of White House records by preventing the release of information from the National Archives. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland accusing the Justice Department of impeding the panel's expanded investigation into the 15 boxes of White House records that Trump took to his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida after leaving office last year.

A government watchdog says the U.S. Postal Service's environmental evaluation used for purchases of next-generation delivery vehicles relied on some false assumptions.

Lawmakers are specifically zeroing in on Amazon's response to extreme weather events, including a deadly warehouse collapse at one of its Illinois facilities.

Donald Trump’s luxury hotel near the White House has received government approval to hand the keys to a Miami investment fund in a sale many industry experts doubted would ever go through.

As the nation’s historically Black colleges remain on edge after receiving dozens of bomb threats in recent weeks, federal law enforcement officials said they have identified six people who they believe are responsible.

Some of the classified documents Donald Trump took to Mar-a-Lago are so sensitive they might not be able to be described in public.

People made the best of Storm Eunice by going out and standing up against strong winds in Langevelderslag, Netherlands, on Friday, Feb. 18.

While speaking at the New York State Democratic Convention in New York on Thursday, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talked about former president Donald Trump and said the country is "deeply and dangerously divided." (Feb. 17)

The U.S. government should consider canceling former President Donald Trump’s lease of a historic Washington building he made into a luxury hotel before he sells it, a congressional committee said Thursday.

The Presidential Records Act mandates that records made by a sitting president and his staff are preserved in the National Archives.

The National Archives has confirmed multiple reports of Trump's potentially very blatant violations of presidential records law.

Trump did manage to take at least 15 boxes of official White House materials back to Florida with him that the National Archives has had to recover.

Redistricting could net Democrats as many as three Congressional seats, from an advantage in 19 of 27 districts to 22 of 26.

Redistricting could net Democrats as many as three Congressional seats, from an advantage in 19 of 27 districts to 22 of 26.

House Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., called the CEOs of four oil companies to appear and answer questions about climate change. She says the companies have spread misinformation for decades.

Federal lawmakers are demanding more information on the massive oil spill off the coast of California as a legislative battle looms over whether to include a ban on future offshore drilling in a scaled-down $3.5-trillion bill.

Like a wall of roaring flames, a wildfire can be a violent and fast-moving hazard. Here are a few tips in case you find yourself in this dangerous situation.

The House Oversight Committee is probing Exxon, BP, Chevron, Shell, and lobbying groups over climate disinformation.

Read the DOJ notes of a conversation between top officials and former President Donald Trump, urging officials to overturn 2020 election results.

President Donald Trump urged senior Justice Department officials to declare the 2020 election results “corrupt” in a December phone call, according to handwritten notes from one of the participants in the conversation. The notes of the Dec. 27 call, released Friday by the House Oversight Committee, underscore the lengths to which Trump went to try to overturn the results of the election and to elicit the support of law enforcement officials and other government leaders in that effort. Emails released last month show that Trump and his allies in the last weeks of his presidency pressured the Justice Department to investigate unsubstantiated claims of widespread 2020 election fraud, and the department's inspector general is looking into whether department officials tried to subvert the results.

The committee cited handwritten notes taken by Richard Donoghue, then the acting deputy attorney general, during a Dec. 27 phone call with Trump and former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen.