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President Joe Biden speaks as he meets virtually with Chinese President Xi Jinping from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

House passes Dems’ sweeping China competition bill, sets up showdown with Senate

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Fed up with left’s one-party rule

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Indiana state Rep. Chuck Moseley, D-Portage, right, speaks during a debate with state Rep. Tim Wesco, R-Osceola, on Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis. The Indiana House on Monday approved a bill sponsored by Wesco that would tighten the state law on mail-in voting. (AP Photo/Tom Davies)

Indiana House backs GOP bill tightening mail-in voting rules

By Tom Davies - Associated Press

FILE - People speak during Michigan's new Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission meeting on Oct. 21, 2021, in Lansing, Mich. Several groups announced Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, they will sue to challenge Michigan's new state House map, alleging it is biased toward Republicans and should be redrawn to be fairer to Democrats on a partisan basis. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Groups to challenge partisan fairness of Michigan House map

By David Eggert - Associated Press

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during her weekly press conference, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022 at the Capitol in Washington. (Shawn Thew/Pool via AP)

GOP says they were sidelined from House Dems’ sweeping China competition bill

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

The U.S. Capitol dome is seen, Monday, July 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

House Dems beg members not to quit in the face of fierce GOP midterm challenge

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., talks to reporters at his Nashville office, on Feb. 16, 2018. Cooper says he won't run for reelection after serving in elected office for more than 30 years. Cooper announced that there was "no way" for him to win his seat under a new congressional map drawn up by state Republicans. (AP Photo/Jonathan Mattise, File)

Rep. Jim Cooper becomes 29th House Democrat to announce retirement

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

In this May 24, 2018, file photo, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is interviewed on the "Fox & Friends" television program, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Newt Gingrich threatens jail time for Jan. 6 committee members if GOP takes back House

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks, Thursday, Jan., 20, 2022, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Accompanied by dozens of House Republicans he commented on President Joe Biden's first year in office. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Conservative group pressures Kevin McCarthy to appear before Jan. 6 committee

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Biden's First Year Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Democrats and Biden: One election, one year later

By Rep. Gary Palmer

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., left, listens as Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the ranking member, makes an opening statement during a markup session as congressional Democrats speed ahead this week in pursuit of President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion plan for social and environmental spending, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Jan. 6 panel warns Jordan over refusal to participate with Capitol riot probe

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., listens during a closed door meeting with representatives of the marijuana industry in Colorado, Thursday, April 9, 2015, in Denver. Perlmutter announced Monday that he would not seek reelection next year, further complicating his Democratic Party's endeavor to maintain their majority. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Democratic Rep. Ed Perlmutter to call it quits after the midterms

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., right, arrive to speak at the start of a discussion with historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Jon Meacham on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 6, on how "to establish and preserve the narrative of January 6th." The event marked the first anniversary of the U.S. Capitol insurrection, the violent attack by Trump supporters that has fundamentally changed the Congress and raised global concerns about the future of American democracy. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

Democrats warn of threats against democracy on anniversary of Jan. 6 riot

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

In this March 25, 2020 file photo, Vermont House Speaker Mitzi Johnson, left, wears a mask while talking to a lawmaker in the Vermont House chamber at the Statehouse in Montpelier, Vt. The Vermont Legislature started the 2022 session Tuesday with the House voting to work remotely for the first two weeks after the Senate had previously voted to do so. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring, File) **FILE**

With rising cases, omicron, Vermont Legislature goes remote

By Lisa Rathke - Associated Press

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks during the House Armed Services Committee on the conclusion of military operations in Afghanistan and plans for future counterterrorism operations on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Rod Lamkey/Pool via AP)

Liz Cheney: Ivanka urged former President Trump twice to ‘please stop’ Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol violence

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

In this July 27, 2021, photo Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., speaks before the House select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Jan. 6 committee open to issuing subpoenas for sitting members of Congress

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing of the Department of Justice on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Freedom Caucus Republicans vow a total takeover of GOP come 2022

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Even before COVID-19 grew into a pandemic, bringing sufficient numbers of qualified young men and women into the ranks was a daunting challenge to military recruiters. A measure to require women as well as men to sign up for Selective Service was dropped from a defense authorization bill by Armed Services Committee leaders in both houses of Congress on Dec. 7, 2021. (U.S. Army via AP) ** FILE **

Inclusion of women in military draft dropped from defense bill as Congress scrambles to pass NDAA

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Del. Cia Price, D-Newport News, left, Del. Alex Askew, D-Virginia Beach, center, and Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy, D-Prince William, right, confer during the floor session of the Virginia House of Delegates inside the State Capitol in Richmond, Va., on Feb. 11, 2020. Election officials were painstakingly recounting votes Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, in one of two unresolved races in Virginia that will settle whether Republicans have reclaimed the majority in the state's House of Delegates and completed a party sweep of last month's contests. Representatives from both the Republican and Democratic parties took part in the secondary counting of ballots requested by Democratic Del. Alex Askew, who currently represents the 85th House District. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

Virginia House recount resumes; could affirm GOP majority

By Ben Finley - Associated Press

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen leaves after giving evidence to the joint committee for the Draft Online Safety Bill, as part of British government plans for social media regulation, at the Houses of Parliament, in London, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. After Haugen revealed Facebook’s failings to curb online hate and extremism and protect young users from harmful content, U.S. lawmakers are putting forward proposals to curb social media giants by limiting their free-speech protections against legal liability. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Former Facebook workers’ testimony spotlights lawmakers’ disagreement over censorship

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times