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Steven Engel, former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, from left, Jeffrey Rosen, former acting Attorney General, and Richard Donoghue, former acting Deputy Attorney General, are sworn in to testify as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol continues to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

House Jan. 6 committee shows evidence of Trump’s ‘pressure campaign’ to overturn 2020 election

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell testifies virtually, Wednesday, June 22, 2022, during a House Oversight Committee hearing on the Washington Commanders' workplace conduct, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Team owner Dan Snyder did not attend the hearing. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Subpoena, spectacle in Roger Goodell hearing as Dan Snyder comes under fire

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times

High gas prices are shown as a pedestrian waits to cross the street in Los Angeles, June 16, 2022. President Joe Biden on June 22 will call on Congress to suspend the federal gasoline and diesel taxes for three months. It's a move meant to ease financial pressures at the pump that also reveals the political toxicity of high gas prices in an election year.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) **FILE**

Biden gas tax holiday faces revolt by top Democrats

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

In this April 13, 2014, file photo, the Internal Revenue Service Headquarters (IRS) building is seen in Washington. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File) ** FILE **

Backlog is ‘still crushing’ IRS, agency’s taxpayer advocate tells Congress

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Texas Congresswoman-elect Mayra Flores is celebrating her victory in a special election in the 34th Congressional District Texas on Tuesday which broke the longtime hold of the Democratic Party on that seat. A Republican, in fact, has only secured a victory in the district once in the past four decades. (Image courtesy of Mayrafloresforcongress.com)

GOP takes one from the Democrats with Flores win

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, arrives to meet with Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., arrive for more bipartisan talks on how to rein in gun violence, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Democratic and Republican negotiators have already reached a broad agreement but still need to convert that accord into legislation, in hopes that Congress could approve it before leaving for its July 4 recess. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Gun deal hung up in Senate over ‘red flag’ laws, defining the ‘boyfriend loophole’

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, photo Republican congressional candidate Mayra Flores attends a Cameron County Conservatives event in Brownsville, Texas. Flores argues that Democrats are forcing Texans choose between their energy sector jobs and curbing climate change. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

GOP’s historic win in Texas portends nationwide ‘red wave’ disaster for Democrats in November

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Medicare Attack and Drug Price Controls Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Price controls on drugs will create more inflation

By Brian McNicoll

Senators demand answers about the extent of work already done by DHS’ disinformation board

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

From left: Students David Buenrostro, Adrian James, and Jahel Ramos protest June 14, 2012, outside the Obama campaign offices in Culver City, Calif. The students demand that President Obama issue an executive order to stop deportations of illegal immigrant students in favor of the DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors). In July 2011, California Gov. Brown enacted the California DREAM Act, giving illegal immigrant students access to private college scholarships for state schools. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama’s DACA decision reverberates 10 years after the announcement

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 5, 1960, file photo, the medalists in the women's 200-meter event, from left, bronze medalist Dorothy Hyman, of Great Britain; gold medalist Wilma Rudolph, of the United States, and silver medalist Jutta Heine, of Germany, pose with their medals at the Olympic stadium in Rome, Italy. It has been 50 years since Title IX was signed into law by President Nixon. The measure barred discrimination against women when it came to programs that receive federal assistance. (AP Photo/File)

Title IX timeline: 50 years of halting progress across U.S.

Associated Press

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., listens as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds its first public hearing to reveal the findings of a year-long investigation, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, June 9, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Rep. Jamie Raskin: ‘Reasonable’ people understand Trump purposely spread election lie

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro speaks to reporters Friday, June 3, 2022, outside of federal court in Washington. Navarro was indicted Friday on contempt charges after defying a subpoena from the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Feds want gag order on Peter Navarro in contempt case for defying House Jan. 6 committee

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

FILE - Carl Paladino speaks to members of the media at Trump Tower in New York, Dec. 5, 2016. Paladino, who is running to represent a congressional district that includes suburbs of Buffalo, New York, shared and deleted a conspiracy-laden Facebook post suggesting a racist mass shooting in Buffalo and other mass killings were part of a plot to take away people’s guns. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Paladino: Saying Hitler “kind of leader we need” was mistake

By Carolyn Thompson - Associated Press

Miah Cerrillo, a fourth grade student at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and survivor of the mass shooting appears on a screen during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Mass shooting victims press Congress as House passes longshot gun control package

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

FILE - Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., listen as the House select committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol meets on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 19, 2021. Republican Party officials have voted to punish Cheney and Kinzinger and advanced a rule change that would prohibit candidates from participating in presidential debates organized by the Commission on Presidential Debates. GOP officials took a voice vote to approve both measures at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Jan. 6 congressional hearings: Prime time for anti-Trumpers

By Cal Thomas

Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro speaks to reporters Friday, June 3, 2022, outside of federal court in Washington. Navarro was indicted Friday on contempt charges after defying a subpoena from the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Federal law enforcement the real threat to our republic

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Jan. 6th Insurrection Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Jan. 6 hearings? Americans have much more serious concerns

By David N. Bossie

Department of the Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testifies during a Senate Finance Committee hearing to examine President Joe Biden's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2023, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 7, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Yellen wants more money to fix the ‘awful’ performance of the IRS

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 26, 2020, file photo, Proud Boys leader Henry "Enrique" Tarrio wears a hat that says The War Boys during a rally in Portland, Ore. The leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group, Tarrio, was arrested Tuesday on a conspiracy charge for his suspected role in a coordinated attack on the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. (AP Photo/Allison Dinner, File)

Proud Boys charged with seditious conspiracy in Capitol riot

By Michael Kunzelman and Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press