"Today I rise on behalf of the governing majority of the House of Representatives," Aguilar said in his speech, a nod to Democrats helping Republicans pass funding bills and avoid shutdowns in the previous Congress. House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain rose to give the nominating speech for Johnson after the quorum call.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) believes Tuesday’s vote on the Laken Riley Act will be a key test of Democrats’ policy priorities after a resounding number of voters noted the border crisis was their No.

Johnson sent shockwaves around Capitol Hill when he decided to oust Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio — a staunch NATO supporter who has aggressively pushed for U.S. aid to Ukraine — as chair of the House Intelligence Committee and replace him with Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., a conservative who voted against the most recent Ukraine aid package.

As Democrats brace for Donald Trump’s second administration, the explosion of protests and coordinated pushback that greeted his first is all but missing. The mass demonstrations and vows of resistance that helped birth the political rise of Stacey Abrams and Jon Ossoff haven’t materialized.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House passed its first bill of the 119th Congress Tuesday, a measure that increases migrant detention and is named after a Georgia nursing student whose murder President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly tied to the Biden administration’s immigration policies.

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation Tuesday to require federal immigration authorities to detain illegal migrants who commit theft-related

Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, will be eulogized at a state funeral Thursday at the National Cathedral and later by private family services and interment in Plains, Georgia.

Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation’s capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returned to Washington on Tuesday for state funeral rites that featured the kind of bipartisan praise and ceremonial pomp the Georgia Democrat rarely enjoyed at his political peak.

Former President Jimmy Carter will lie in state at the US Capitol before his state funeral in Washington, DC, and burial in Georgia.

The House passed the Laken Riley Act on Tuesday, which could have unauthorized immigrants charged with nonviolent crimes deported.

Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation’s capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returned to Washington on Tuesday for state funeral rites that featured the kind of bipartisan praise and ceremonial pomp the Georgia Democrat rarely enjoyed at his political peak.