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Acting Assistant U.S. Attorney General Jeffrey Clark speaks as he stands next to Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Oct. 21, 2020. Clark, who aligned himself with former President Donald Trump after he lost the 2020 election has declined to be fully interviewed by a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, ending a deposition after around 90 minutes on Friday, Nov. 5. (Yuri Gripas/Pool via AP) **FILE**

House Jan. 6 committee tees up contempt charges for another Trump ally

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Trial lawyers and third party litigation costs illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Trial lawyers’ ridiculous tax break buried in Biden’s Build Back Better Act

By Victor E. Schwartz

In this file photo, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, makes comments as she introduces State Senator Royce West at a rally where West announced his bid to run for the US Senate in Dallas, Monday, July 22, 2019. Ms. Johnson has also announced her endorsement in the race to replace her in the House, Texas State Representative Jasmine Crockett. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File) **FILE**

Retiring congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson endorses state lawmaker for her House seat

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

In this file photo taken Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018, Josh Harder the Democratic candidate for the California 10th Congressional District, talks with supporters Rebecca, left, and Michelle Tennell, right, in Modesto, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) ** FILE **

Rep. Josh Harder, vulnerable Democrat, peddles pragmatic style to save his rural California seat

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., a member of the House Appropriations Committee, speaks with reporters just outside the chamber, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. Mr. Bishop is among a number of Democrats targeted by a new National Republican Congressional Committee ad push airing just before Thanksgiving. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

NRCC expands ‘Exit List’ of targeted Democrats, hits them in Thanksgiving inflation ads

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Mohamed bin Hamad Al-Thani, left, Chairman of the 2022 bid committee, and Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Emir of Qatar, hold the World Cup trophy in front of FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke after the announcement that Qatar will host the 2022 soccer World Cup, on Dec. 2, 2010, in Zurich, Switzerland. Qatar has for years employed a former CIA officer to help spy on soccer officials as part of an aggressive effort to win and hold on to the 2022 World Cup tournament, an investigation by The Associated Press has found. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File) **FILE**

World Cup host Qatar used ex-CIA officer to spy on FIFA

By Alan Suderman - Associated Press

Illustration on Congress and UFOs by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Congressional encounters with UFOs

By Dillon Guthrie

Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, discusses the infrastructure bill making its way through Congress during a news conference held by the House Freedom Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Aug. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades) **FILE**

Rep. Louie Gohmert announces bid for Texas attorney general

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

In this March 11, 1989, photo Donald Trump shakes hands with former President Richard Nixon at a tribute gala to Nellie Connally at the Westin Galleria ballroom in Houston, Texas. The letters between Trump and Nixon revealed for the first time in an exhibit that opens Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library &amp; Museum, show the two men engaged in something of an exercise in mutual affirmation. The museum shared the letters exclusively with The Associated Press ahead of the exhibit’s opening. (Richard Carson/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Revisiting Watergate: Inside the first deep state hoax

By Geoff Shepard

FILE - Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, makes comments as she introduces State Senator Royce West at a rally where West announced his bid to run for the US Senate in Dallas, Monday, July 22, 2019. Johnson says she wont seek re-election in 2022 after 30 years in Congress. The 85-year-old trailblazing Black Democrat made her announcement Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021 in Dallas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

Eddie Bernice Johnson seeking female replacement after announcing retirement

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty gestures as he speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Jerusalem, Monday, May 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner) ** FILE **

Bill Hagerty pushes for updated presidential war powers ahead of Senate vote to repeal them

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this file photo, people carry signs as several hundred anti-mandate demonstrators rally outside the Capitol during a special legislative session considering bills targeting COVID-19 vaccine mandates, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, in Tallahassee, Fla. In Washington, congressional Republicans are considering an attempt to thwart President Biden's OSHA vaccination mandate via a vote under the Congressional Review Act, which gives lawmakers a mechanism to override an executive-branch rule if passed. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) **FILE**

Republicans plan challenge to Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate for businesses

By Joseph Clark and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., takes an elevator as the House of Representatives prepares to vote on a resolution to formally rebuke him for tweeting an animated video that depicted him striking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., with a sword, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. In addition to the official censure, House Democrats want to oust him from his seats on the House Oversight Committee and the Natural Resources Committee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Democrats censure GOP’s Gosar, strip lawmaker of committees

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Hundreds of people run alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane as it moves down a runway of the international airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug.16. 2021. Thousands of Afghans have rushed onto the tarmac of Kabul’s international airport, some so desperate to escape the Taliban capture of their country that they held onto an American military jet as it took off and plunged to death. (Verified UGC via AP)

House Republicans request interviews with 34 Biden officials on botched Afghan withdrawal

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

China's Slave Labor and Biden's "Build Back Better" Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ has a Chinese slave labor problem

By Oliver McPherson-Smith

In this file photo, protesters hold a Palestinian flag during a protest held on Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. Huwaida Arraf, a Palestinian-American woman who co-founded the group International Solidarity Movement, has announced she is running as a Democrat in Michigan’s 10th Congressional District, looking to unseat Republican Rep. Lisa McClain in the November 2022 midterms. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) **FILE**

Palestinian activist announces congressional campaign to unseat Michigan Republican

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., speaks about the new infrastructure bill during a news conference Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021, at the Minnesota Department of Transportation in St. Paul, Minn. Standing behind her are officials from local building trade unions. Minnesota will be getting over $6 billion as part of the package. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)

Democrats sell infrastructure bill, push for Biden backup

By Will Weissert and Thomas Beaumont and Heather Hollingsworth - Associated Press

Republican conference chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., speaks with reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Stefanik-led PAC boosts GOP women candidates to help flip control of Congress in 2022

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, left, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, center, and LeRoy Jones, chairman of the state's Democratic committee, right, celebrate at Convention Hall after Murphy won the gubernatorial race against Jack Ciattarelli, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021, in Asbury Park, N.J. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

Democrats facing tough slog in 2022 governor’s races

By Thomas Beaumont and Will Weissert - Associated Press

The U.S. Capitol is seen on a sunrise in Washington, Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

EXCLUSIVE: House GOP moves to block members of Congress from profiting off lucrative SALT deduction

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times