VERN BUCHANAN

The Speaker pays off his debts to the extremist base.

House Republicans are promising aggressive oversight of the Biden administration once they assume the majority next year.

If the GOP wins the House, the next likely chairman of the Ways and Means Committee will drop the effort to obtain former President Donald Trump's tax returns.

Amid Republican gains in the U.S. House races in Florida, Democrat Maxwell Alejandro Frost has become the first member of Generation Z to win a seat in Congress.

President Joe Biden says nearly 22 million people have applied for federal student loan relief in the week since his administration made its online application available — more than half of the number the White House believes are eligible for the program.

“Somebody needs to inform President Biden that job-saving PPP loans were designed to be forgiven unlike student loans,” said a spokesperson with Rep. Buchanan’s office.

White House shines a light on Republicans who are criticizing student debt cancellation after getting their Paycheck Protection Program loans forgiven.

The real answer is as much an allegory about the state of House Republicans in 2022 as it is about a federal building in Florida. “He voted against student-led school prayer in Duval County in 1999,” Mr. Clyde, a deacon at his Baptist church in Bogart, Ga., said in an interview. Mr. Clyde also voted against recognizing Juneteenth as a federal holiday. “I was appalled,” said Representative Kathy Castor, Democrat of Florida, who grew up hearing about Judge Hatchett from her father, a former county court judge. @AnnieKarniA version of this article appears in print on April 13, 2022, Section A, Page 24 of the New York edition with the headline: House Republicans Abruptly Kill Bipartisan Bill to Honor a Pioneering Black Judge.

Without much debate, the Senate passed legislation that would leave clocks in place year-round, opting for a proposal to have darker mornings and more daylight in the late afternoon and evening.

The Sunshine Protection Act, if passed by the House of Representatives and signed into law, would end the ritual of changing clocks twice a year.

Normally giving food to wild animals is considered off limits.

A Republican Congressman from Louisiana who has criticized mask mandates and public health restrictions says he and his wife and son are now sick with the coronavirus.

Ashley Moody, the Republican attorney general of Florida, tweeted on Wednesday that she has tested positive for COVID-19.

While reports of athletes, lawmakers and others occasionally getting the coronavirus despite vaccination may sound alarming, top health experts point to overwhelming evidence that the shots dramatically reduce severe disease and death.

The Delta variant is in the House, and also the White House, jolting political Washington

With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations up sharply over the last month in Alabama but still far below when the pandemic was at its worst early this year, school officials have said vaccines won’t be required in the fall and local systems can decide on their own whether to require masks or other precautions. INDIANAPOLIS — A federal judge is allowing Indiana University to continue with its COVID-19 vaccine requirement for all students and employees.

Many have warned of the "environmental nightmare" long before the leak began.

It has become a race against time as workers hope to ensure that the containment wall doesn't collapse.

A Florida state agency says dam safety experts consider the risk of a possible second breach in a leaking wastewater reservoir to be “unsubstantiated.”.

At least 10 lawmakers and three congressional caucuses have ties to organizations that received federal coronavirus aid, according to government data released this week. Four car dealerships owned by Kelly received $600,000 to $1.4 million. Mike Kelly Automotive Group, Mike Kelly Automotive LP and Mike Kelly Hyundai and Kelly Chevrolet-Cadillac, all near Pittsburgh, received the money. Buchanan, whose net worth is estimated at $74 million, received three loans for car dealerships totaling $2.7 million to $7 million. Two wineries tied to Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and an Iowa farm run by his family received loans worth at least $2 million.