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Rep. Zoey Zephyr, D-Missoula, watches a House Rules Committee meeting on Thursday, April 20, 2023 in the state capitol in Helena, Mont. (Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP)

Transgender lawmaker silenced by Montana House speaker

By Amy Beth Hanson - Associated Press

Subcommittee Ranking Member Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., questions Robin Dunn Marcos, Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, hearing on resettlement of unaccompanied minors, on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

House Republicans ready border enforcement push after delays

By Stephen Groves - Associated Press

Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and other progressive candidates pose for a selfie taken by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., at AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, Nov. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

Ilhan Omar embarks on new path no longer defined by ‘firsts’

By Farnoush Amiri - Associated Press

The chamber of the House of Representatives is seen at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 28, 2022. Just seven Republicans, along with most Democrats, used remote voting in the House when it began two years ago as the pandemic erupted. As of April 2022, over half of GOP lawmakers used the proxy voting system at least once, along with nearly all Democrats. More than 50 of the Republicans who’ve used it this year also once signed onto a lawsuit seeking to declare the practice unconstitutional. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) **FILE**

DCCC names 33 GOP seats it aims to recapture in 2024

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Kansas state Sen. Cindy Holscher, left, D-Overland Park, gives a high-five to Leland, the young son of Sen. Kristen O'Shea, right, R-Topeka, during a session of the Senate, Wednesday, March 29, 2023, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Lawmakers are preparing for an intense four days of work ahead of their annual "Drop Dead Day" deadline. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Taxes, trans rights, abortion hot as Kansas deadline looms

By John Hanna - Associated Press

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference Thursday, March 30, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Jeffries says White House did not undercut Democrats on bills

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Chairwoman Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., speaks during a hearing of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee to examine the Department of Agriculture, on Capitol Hill, March 16, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Twenty years on, reflection and regret on 2002 Iraq war vote

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., center, and members of the House Freedom Caucus speak against Democratic policies and President Joe Biden's agenda with a focus on the debt limit, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 10, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

House Freedom Caucus urges Biden to start debt limit negotiations: ‘We’re ready’

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks to the media, Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at the Capitol in Washington. McCarthy's decision to unleash a trove of Jan. 6 Capitol attack footage to Fox News' Tucker Carlson has launched a wholesale Republican effort to rewrite the history of the deadly siege. Carlson aired the first installment of some 41,000 hours of security footage on his prime-time show and promised more Tuesday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

House GOP not sold on Senate-approved repeal of U.S. war powers in Iraq

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks during a Nowruz celebration in the East Room of the White House, Monday, March 20, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden signs measure nullifying D.C. criminal code overhaul

By Ashraf Khalil - Associated Press

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg listens in court during a hearing for Steven Lopez, Monday, July 25, 2022, in New York. Lopez, a co-defendant of the so-called Central Park Five, whose convictions in a notorious 1989 rape of a jogger were thrown out more than a decade later, had his conviction on a related charge overturned Monday. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool) **FILE**

GOP to take aim at Trump prosecutor; panel on government weaponization steels for felony indictment

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus, talks to reporters in Statuary Hall about their opposition to voting for Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., to be speaker of the House, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

DeSantis scores first 2024 endorsement from a member of Congress

By Stephen Groves - Associated Press

People walk outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington on June 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Health data breach hitting Congress ‘could be extraordinary’

By Lisa Mascaro and Frank Bajak - Associated Press

The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. President Joe Biden on Tuesday night will stand before a joint session of Congress for the first time since voters in the midtem elections handed control of the House to Republicans. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

House Republicans push helpful earmark reforms

By David Ditch

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is questioned by reporters, Jan. 6, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Gaetz says Justice Department has informed him he won’t face charges related to sex trafficking investigation. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

GOP Rep. Gaetz cites Communist China’s state news while pressing Pentagon officials over Ukraine aid

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., announces in Indianapolis, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022, that he will run for Indiana governor in 2024. Braun will face Indiana Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch for the Republican nomination. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Republicans pushing to keep wokeness out of retirement plans

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., left, a former Marine, joined at right by Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, speaks during a roundtable discussion with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and other Republicans as they criticize President Joe Biden on the Afghanistan evacuation, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Rep. Mike Gallagher sounds alarm over China’s illegal ‘police stations’ in U.S.

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden meets with Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden faces doubt from some voters who backed Dems in 2022

By Hannah Fingerhut - Associated Press

Dr. Rahul Gupta, the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, is shown at the White House, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, in Washington. Gupta was one of the first witnesses whose video deposition was played at a bench trial Tuesday, April 5, 2022, in which several pharmaceutical manufacturers are accused in a lawsuit of contributing to the crisis. He testified that the opioid epidemic got so bad in drug-ravaged West Virginia that the state was having trouble finding foster parents to care of children. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Top White House drug-fighter sees progress on fentanyl overdoses, but warns of new threats

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden delivers his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, March 1, 2022, in Washington. When lawmakers gather for President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, the Republican side of the aisle will look slightly different than in years past. The House Republican majority has Black, Latino and female elected officials in their ranks. (Shawn Thew/Pool via AP, File)

State of the Union? Congress doesn’t fully reflect diversity

By Lisa Mascaro - Associated Press