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A video clip of a Fox News broadcast of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection is seen on screen during a hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the United States Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on Thursday, July 21, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

September 21, 2022 at 5:23 pm

Jan. 6 committee, racing year-end clock, expects final hearing next week

Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson told reporters Tuesday that a hearing scheduled for Sept. 28 would be the last for the committee, “unless something else develops.”

FILE – Doug Mastriano, speaks at an event on July 1, 2022, at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. Mastriano, Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor, is suing the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, contesting its legal ability to force him to answer questions about it. The lawsuit filed by Mastriano on Sept. 1, contends that the committee lacks House Republican appointees, and doesn’t comply with House rules for conducting a compelled deposition of witnesses (AP Photo/Marc Levy, File) WX112 WX112

September 1, 2022 at 6:25 pm

Mastriano challenges Jan. 6 panel authority to compel deposition

Doug Mastriano, the GOP nominee for Pennsylvania governor and an ally of former President Trump, is asking a court to block the House's Jan. 6...

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July 11, 2022 at 10:37 am

Jan. 6 Committee Postpones Prime-Time Hearing Planned for Thursday

(Bloomberg) -- The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the US Capitol by a mob of Donald Trump's supporters has decided to delay...

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FILE – Virginia â€œGinniâ€ Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, right, arrive for a State Dinner with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and President Donald Trump at the White House, Sept. 20, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

June 28, 2022 at 9:06 pm

Ginni Thomas declines Jan. 6 committee request to give testimony

The lawyer for Virginia "Ginni" Thomas says there is "no sufficient basis" yet for her to testify to the House committee investigating the insurrection at...

September 12, 2021 at 3:54 pm

House Democrats set to propose corporate tax rate of 26.5%

WASHINGTON — House Democrats are set to propose raising the corporate tax rate to 26.5%, people familiar with the matter said, among other plans that...

Temporary security fencing surrounds the U.S. Capitol as security personnel line the west front in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. Biden will unveil a sweeping $1.8 trillion plan to expand educational opportunities and child care for families, funded in part by the largest tax increases on wealthy Americans in decades, the centerpiece of his first address to Congress. Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg 775649794

August 12, 2021 at 8:38 pm

Rally for Jan. 6 rioters prompts Capitol security concern

A planned rally next month on the U.S. Capitol grounds that organizers say is intended to peacefully demand “justice” for hundreds of “political prisoners” charged...

President Joe Biden listens during a virtual meeting from the South Court Auditorium at the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, to discuss the importance of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) DCSW120 DCSW120

August 12, 2021 at 8:21 am

Biden’s agenda confronts tripwires everywhere in Congress; here’s the path ahead

The central pieces of President Joe Biden’s $4.1 trillion economic agenda are now moving through Congress on a precarious two-track path that’s further complicated by...

After leading the second impeachment of President Donald Trump this week, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., holds a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. Pelosi and House Democrats, joined by a few Republicans, delivered the historic rebuke of Trump for his incitement of the mob that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) DCSA116 DCSA116

January 21, 2021 at 6:10 am

Trump’s Senate trial still on hold as Democrats take control

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hasn't tipped her hand on when the House will formally transmit the single article of impeachment to the Senate, and multiple...

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FILE – In this Dec. 17, 2019 file photo, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Washington. A deepening divide among Republicans over President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election runs prominently through Wyoming, the state that delivered Trump’s widest prevailing margin by far. Eleven Republican senators saying they will not be voting Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, to confirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory include Wyoming’s newly sworn in Sen. Cynthia Lummis, a Cheyenne-area rancher and former congresswoman. Vocal opponents of any such move include Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, leader of GOP messaging in the House as its third-ranking Republican (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) LA156 LA156

January 12, 2021 at 3:28 pm

Liz Cheney, No. 3 GOP Leader, Will Vote to Impeach Trump

Republican Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House GOP leader, said she will vote to impeach President Donald Trump, a major break within the party following...

January 4, 2021 at 2:38 pm

Congress gets security instructions on Electoral College session

WASHINGTON — U.S. lawmakers are receiving urgent security instructions in advance of potential violence in Washington tied to Wednesday’s joint session of Congress to count...