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  • House Oversight moves forward on contempt against both Clintons after Hillary Clinton is a no-show in Epstein probe
  • Trump steps up pressure campaign to avoid rare Congress reprimand on war powers
  • Clintons refuse to testify in congressional Epstein probe despite contempt threat
  • Fear of Trump’s wrath ripples through House GOP
  • Hill liberals push for shutdown clash over ICE funding but face resistance in Democratic ranks
  • Handful of Republicans join Democrats to force Senate check on Trump’s war powers in Venezuela
  • Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer announces he will retire after four decades in Congress
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  • Supporters of President Donald Trump cover their faces to protect from tear gas during a clash with police officers in front of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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    The political divide over January 6 is only deepening five years after the deadly US Capitol attack
  • Senator Amy Klobuchar speaks during a rally at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles,  on November 1.
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    Will Amy Klobuchar run for Minnesota governor? ‘I’m seriously considering it,’ she says
  • President Donald Trump addresses a House Republican retreat at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2026.
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    Trump’s ‘ammunition’ for House GOP to win the midterms involves lots of grievances
  • Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif., leaves a meeting of the House Republican Conference at the Capitol Hill Club on Wednesday, January 22, 2025.
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    California Congressman Doug LaMalfa dies at 65, further tightening GOP’s razor-thin House majority
  • The US Capitol past traffic on North Capitol street in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025.
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    A divided Congress returns for high-stakes battles over health care, federal spending and Venezuela
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  • Rep. Tom Tiffany cheers as Donald Trump is announced as the winner of Wisconsin's Electoral College votes during a joint session of Congress in the House chamber on Monday, January 6, 2025.
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    More House Republicans are leaving Congress to run for governor than in decades amid frustration over ‘toxic environment’
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  • Rep. Dan Goldman during a break in a closed-door deposition with former special counsel Jack Smith before the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, DC, on December 17, 2025.
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    ‘They’re attacking their own’: DC Democrats irked by surge of left-wing challengers with House majority on the line
  • The US Capitol on Thursday.
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    Congress leaves town until 2026, letting enhanced Obamacare tax credits expire in two weeks
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