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Byline: Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND - Virginia House Speaker Don Scott (D-Portsmouth) has formed a special bipartisan committee of lawmakers to study the impact of President Donald Trump's attacks on [...]

Byline: Marianna Sotomayor Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly said Rep. David Scott (D-Georgia) is 78. He is 79. The article has been corrected. - - - House [...]

Democrats' longtime leader on the panel faced a challenge from Representative Jamie Raskin, and pressure from colleagues who wanted a younger, more strategic figure at the helm. Representative Jerrold Nadler [...]

Some House Democrats want to oust aging committee leaders like Representative Jerrold Nadler in favor of younger lawmakers who they see as better suited to take on the president. House […]

Pennsylvania New Leadership for PA General Assembly Committees The Pennsylvania General Assembly has appointed new chairs for its 52 standing committees, which play a crucial role in discussing, amending, and [...]

Byline: STEVEN CHASE, ROBERT FIFE OTTAWA -- MPs from the governing Liberal Party are backing a proposal to suspend the regular activity of a special parliamentary committee dedicated to probing [...]

The Portfolio Committee on Trade, Industry and Competition comprised of members of the South African National Assembly held a meeting on 22 October 2024 discussing the development and implementation of [...]

Here is a special edition of Health Dose focusing on the congressional and administrative landscape as the November 2024 election approaches. ELECTION WATCH Election years inherently bring uncertainty and change, [...]

Published: New Hampshire Bar News September 18, 2024 On July 26, 2024, Governor Sununu signed into law House Bill 609 to streamline energy project siting under RSA 162-H:1 and provide [...]

On January 19, 2024, the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party ('China Select Committee') published a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calling for strengthened enforcement [...]

Byline: Maegan Vazquez and Marianna Sotomayor The House on Thursday referred a long-shot effort to impeach President Biden to a pair of committees, part of a deal made by House [...]

WASHINGTON -- When Representative Jim Jordan made his appeal to donors at a recent fund-raiser for the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, he pointed to his clash with Alvin L. Bragg, [...]

Byline: DUSTIN COOK; Staff TORONTO -- An Ontario legislative committee is calling on the federal and provincial governments to implement bail reforms, including making release more restrictive for repeat and [...]

Byline: Jacqueline Alemany WASHINGTON - When Kevin McCarthy finally locked down the votes to become the 55th Speaker of the House, a key factor in that support was the promise [...]

Republican leaders have told their colleagues to get out of Washington for field hearings that allow the party to take their message straight to voters, a costly pursuit that can [...]

Staff members from the panel viewed as the gold standard of congressional inquiry advised the top Republican to pursue a bipartisan inquiry and operate in good faith with Democrats. As [...]

Byline: Meryl Kornfield and John Wagner WASHINGTON - Embattled Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) told House Republicans on Tuesday that he will step down from his committee assignments, according to a [...]

Byline: John Wagner and Marianna Sotomayor WASHINGTON - House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has formally recommended that Reps. Adam B. Schiff and Eric Swalwell be reappointed to the House [...]

In the latest twist in the surreal saga of George Santos, this mystery man congressman has been named to seats on the House committees for small business and for science. [...]

Byline: Rex Huppke, Columnist, USA TODAY Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene - who is, to put it mildly, bonkers - has been named to the House of Representatives' Homeland Security [...]

Some of the former president's most outspoken defenders will sit on the House's main investigative committee, underscoring their high-profile roles in the new Republican majority. WASHINGTON -- They were deeply [...]

Byline: KC Johnson On Jan. 10, the Republican-led House approved the creation of a new select subcommittee to investigate whether the federal government, particularly its national security bureaucracy, has improperly [...]

House Republican leadership placed Representative George Santos on two committees, even as some G.O.P. congressmen have called for his resignation. Even as calls grew for investigations into Representative George Santos [...]

Republicans plan to create a special subcommittee, led by a Trump ally, with a mandate to scrutinize open criminal investigations and classified intelligence. WASHINGTON -- Newly empowered House Republicans are [...]

Byline: Michele L. Swers In the discussions over the incoming leadership changes in Congress, one first has been overlooked: The chairs and ranking minority-party members of the House and Senate [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS The standing committee on the status of women unanimously passed a motion Monday to undertake a study on the safety of women and girls in sport. [...]

Today, the House of Representatives voted to establish a Select Committee on the strategic competition between the United States and Chinese Communist Party ( H. Res. 11). The resolution passed [...]

On January 6, 2023, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on the fifteenth ballot after a week of dramatic negotiations with the right [...]

The process of determining the membership of standing congressional committees. Rules of Breaking Up Standing committees have been a mainstay since the First Congress. They are permanent panels in both [...]

Byline: John Wagner and Eva Ruth Moravec Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday asked state lawmakers to convene a pair of 'special legislative committees' to address the issues of [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]THE CANADIAN PRESS A committee appointed to reform British Columbia's Police Act recommends moving to a provincial police service to achieve a new vision of policing and community safety. [...]

A broad, bipartisan group of senators is coalescing around a plan for an independent panel to investigate the origins of the coronavirus and the U.S. response. WASHINGTON -- A broad [...]

Byline: Tom Hamburger WASHINGTON - The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has requested voluntary testimony from Ivanka Trump, saying in a letter sent Thursday [...]