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WASHINGTON - The House voted resoundingly on Thursday to repeal the 2002 authorization for the war in Iraq, with support from President Biden. It marks a seminal moment not only in military politics but also in Rep. Barbara Lee's career. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - A disruption at a town hall held by North Bay Rep. Jared Huffman is raising questions about safety and security as the country reopens after the coronavirus pandemic, especially in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Tuesday passed a landmark tech investment bill co-authored by South Bay Rep. Ro Khanna, a significant feat that puts pressure on the House to follow suit. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On June 6, exactly five months after the Capitol riots, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia all but torpedoed the nation's best chance of slowing the voter suppression laws sweeping Republican-controlled state legislatures across the country. Writing in the Charleston Gazette-Mail, Manchin announced that he would be voting against the "For the People Act," S1, arguing no Republicans support it, and that bipartisanship is more important than any single bill. Besides, he said, the "John Lewis Voting Rights Act" has some Republican Senate support and is enough. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell's lawsuit has now been formally served to the GOP lawmaker he's blaming for the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell works in the same building as his colleague Rep. Mo Brooks, whom he is suing over the Jan. 6 insurrection. But that hasn't helped him serve the Alabama Republican with the lawsuit - in fact, Swalwell says he has had to hire a private investigator, to no avail. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If any good can come of the national nadir that is Senate Republicans' stonewalling of an investigation of their own attempted murder by an antidemocratic mob, it's the end of all illusion that Congress' post-constitutional caucus deserves extraordinary deference from the majority still clinging to a semblance of the rule of law and reason. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The House and Senate minority leaders are trying to kill a genuinely bipartisan examination of the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol. If they succeed, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should launch a partisan inquiry instead. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - An effort to restore a deduction for state and local taxes that would benefit residents of high-cost states like California was dealt a major blow this week, when a key senator slammed the idea as choosing the wealthy over working families. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - Republicans are firing back at Rep. Zoe Lofgren over a compilation she created of their social media posts related to the 2020 election and Jan. 6 insurrection, filing a complaint against her that was made public Thursday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - Earmarks are back in fashion in Washington, and Northern California lawmakers are looking to cash in. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - California will lose a representative in Congress for the first time in the state's history, according to new numbers released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On Wednesday, after more than three decades of trying, the House Judiciary Committee advanced HR40, a bill to explore paying reparations to Black Americans for centuries of racism and oppression dating to the beginning of American slavery in 1619. The vote was along party lines, with Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, accusing the Democrats who passed the measure of trying "to take money from people who were never involved in the evil of slavery and give it to people who were never subject to the evil of slavery." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - President Biden introduced a slate of executive actions on guns Thursday, then implored Congress to do more. Bay Area lawmakers will be central to that effort. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - As Democrats are looking to pass a massive infrastructure package proposed by President Biden, many are also eyeing an opportunity to restore a tax break that could line pockets in California. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissed the idea that another Democrat should run in a recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom, predicting that Newsom would prevail and win re-election next year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The administrative agency for U.S. judges is recommending creation of 79 new federal judgeships nationwide, including five in the Bay Area, to keep up with steadily rising workloads in courts that have not been substantially expanded since 1990. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - Xavier Becerra was confirmed by the Senate as President Biden's health and human services secretary Thursday, clearing the way for Gov. Gavin Newsom to nominate a replacement as California's attorney general. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - House Democrats defeated an attempt by Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield to remove Rep. Eric Swalwell from the Intelligence Committee on Thursday, the latest salvo in GOP efforts to tarnish the East Bay Democrat. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - Sen. Dianne Feinstein confirmed Wednesday that her husband is interested in an ambassadorship from President Biden but said that wouldn't take her out of the Senate. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Hyde Amendment, which since 1977 has banned nearly all federal funding for abortions for low-income women, seems likely to survive this year despite newfound opposition from President Biden. But there are signs the tide is turning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, is a gun owner, a hunter and a defender of Second Amendment rights. He also is a firm believer that he and other responsible gun owners have nothing to fear from background checks that keep firearms out of the hands of felons and others who pose an established threat to public safety. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - Xavier Becerra will have bipartisan support for his confirmation vote as President Biden's secretary of Health and Human Services, with Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins backing him as the Senate advanced his nomination. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - Cash is about to flow west from Congress to California, as tens of billions of dollars in the coronavirus stimulus bill will go to the state, local governments, schools and households. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - All the broken windows are replaced and Joe Biden is in the White House, but two prominent Bay Area Democrats are keeping the focus on former President Donald Trump, Republicans and the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - Once BART's extension to downtown San Jose was rebranded by Republicans as "Nancy Pelosi's Silicon Valley subway," its chances of being funded by Congress' coronavirus stimulus package were all but doomed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - California Attorney General Xavier Becerra took a step toward becoming secretary of Health and Human Services on Wednesday when a key Senate committee deadlocked on sending his nomination to the full chamber with a positive recommendation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Congress has launched an investigation into San Francisco-based health care provider One Medical following reports that it disregarded vaccine eligibility requirements in multiple cities, including at least three Bay Area counties. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - Rep. Ro Khanna has built a brand as a progressive who will take positions even if they are at odds with establishment Democrats. Just over a month into the administration, he is making that clear to President Biden. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - California Sen. Alex Padilla unveiled his first piece of legislation since arriving in the Senate on Friday, a bill that would offer millions of immigrant essential workers and their families a path to citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Xavier Becerra faced a barrage of skeptical questions from Republican senators Wednesday in his confirmation hearing to be President Biden's health and human services secretary, as the GOP tried to cast him as a radical leftist on abortion and religious liberty. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Congressional Democrats' $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill includes money for transit agencies reeling from lost revenue, and that could mean a major boost for BART, Muni and Caltrain. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - Republicans have called Xavier Becerra a radical leftist, but during his first Senate hearing on his nomination to run the federal Health and Human Services Department, the atmosphere was collegial. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - Asian American, Black and Hispanic lawmakers joined together Friday to demand action to respond to a disturbing increase in attacks on Asian Americans including in the Bay Area, saying the government needs to do more to stop the violence. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell has become a household name known for his criticism of Donald Trump on cable television, via Twitter and during the former president's two impeachments. But after the second trial's end, he says he's ready to reach across the aisle. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy was nowhere near the Senate on the final day of Donald Trump's impeachment trial, but a phone call he made to the former president the day of the Capitol insurrection nearly derailed the proceeding. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Former President Donald Trump's defense team insisted Friday that he had no role in inciting the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol, but California's senators weren't having it. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - Watching the surveillance footage of themselves taking cover in a conference room Jan. 6 minutes before pro-Donald Trump rioters flooded a hallway in the U.S. Capitol, what struck staffers for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was the weirdness of the silence. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SACRAMENTO - As California entered the worst surge of the coronavirus pandemic in early December, House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield attended his son's wedding, a largely maskless gathering that appears to have violated coronavirus restrictions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol sought to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and feverishly searched hallways and her office in hopes of finding the San Francisco Democrat, according to evidence outlined Wednesday during the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell returned to his courtroom roots Wednesday as he helped prosecute the impeachment case against Donald Trump, arguing that the former president whipped up supporters with baseless charges of voting fraud to "steal the election for himself." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - A San Francisco Democrat is speaker of the House, a New York Democrat is running the Senate and a Democrat is in the White House - and that could spell a windfall for residents of high-tax areas such as California. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - California's House delegation split largely along party lines Thursday over whether to kick Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off her committees, with just one of the state's GOP members voting with Democrats to remove the first-term Georgia Republican over incendiary comments she made before being elected. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - A newly elected Republican member of the House known for conspiratorial social media posts spread a false theory that PG&E started the devastating Camp Fire in 2018 with space lasers in a clean-energy experiment gone awry, according to a new report. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]