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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Democratic leaders discuss their legislative agenda, including voting rights, public health, and infrastructure, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, July 30, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

‘Country over politics’: Bipartisan lawmakers urge Pelosi to not obstruct $1.2T infrastructure deal

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., listens as Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., left, speaks to reporters as intense negotiations continue to salvage a bipartisan infrastructure deal, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 27, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP caves to Biden, fought Trump

By Kelly Sadler - The Washington Times

National Guard troops stand guard after a car that crashed into a barrier on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Senate passes emergency spending to repay National Guard, Capitol Police for Jan. 6 deployments

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Susan Wright, Republican candidate for Texas' 6th Congressional District, greets voters outside a polling location during early voting for a special runoff election on Thursday, July 22, 2021, in Arlington, Texas. The runoff for a U.S. House seat in Texas is deciding who will fill the remaining term of Rep. Ron Wright, who died in February after contracting COVID-19. Voters on Tuesday, July 27 were choosing between Wright, the widow of the late congressman, and Jake Ellzey, a Republican state legislator. Wright is a longtime GOP party activist and carries the endorsement of former President Donald Trump. (Elias Valverde II/The Dallas Morning News via AP) **FILE**

Trump candidate’s loss in Texas not an indication the ex-president has lost clout, strategists say

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Harry Dunn, right, watches a video being displayed during the House select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 27, 2021. (Oliver Contreras/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

House’s Jan. 6 committee opens with officers’ harrowing tales of attacks by pro-Trump ‘terrorists’

By Seth McLaughlin and Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

This image taken with a slow shutter speed on Oct. 2, 2019, and provided by the U.S. Air Force shows an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile test launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. (Associated Press/File) **FILE**

Biden’s budget ‘injects risk’ to nuclear weapons modernization, senior officials warn Congress

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Texas State Rep. Senfronia Thompson, dean of the Texas House of Representatives, speaks as Democratic members of the Texas legislature hold a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. Texas Democrats are starting a second week of holing up in Washington to block new voting laws back home. More than 50 Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives had plans Monday to continue on a media blitz in the nation's capital and pressure Congress to act on federal voting rights. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Runaway Texas Dems derailed as outbreak spreads to White House, Pelosi’s office

By Valerie Richardson and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., pauses during a news conference to announce her resolution to censure President Joe Biden, claiming he is not enforcing border security and immigration laws, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 23, 2021. A group of conservative Republicans also had criticism for Vice President Kamala Harris who is set to make her first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border since taking office. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Boebert demands ‘Biden regime’ explain alleged unequal treatment of Jan. 6, BLM rioters

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, with Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., expressing their opposition to "critical race theory," on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Three House Republicans lose appeals on fines over Pelosi’s mask mandate

By Meg Kinnard - Associated Press

House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, question witness FBI Director Christopher Wray during the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Capitol Hill, Thursday, June 10, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Kevin McCarthy names five Republicans to serve on Jan. 6 special committee

By Victor Morton and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

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

House gets back to work Monday with much to do, little time before its next vacation

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

In this June 12, 2019, file photo, clouds roll over the U.S. Capitol dome as dusk approaches in Washington. The committee charged with helping Republicans wrest control of the House next year raised $45.4 million over the last three months, a record quarterly haul during a year without a national election. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

House Republicans post record fundraising ahead of 2022 race

By Jill Colvin and Will Weissert - Associated Press

Canadian residents Philip Owira, right, and Katherine Nichol walk with their baby across a small ditch from Canada into Peace Arch Historical State Park to visit a friend there, Tuesday, June 8, 2021, in Blaine, Wash. The border has been closed to nonessential travel since March 2020, but Canadians have been allowed to walk over the ditch into the U.S. park. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

75 House members to Biden: Open the U.S.-Canada border

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this file photo, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., joined at left by Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 29, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

House Republicans press for answers to origins of COVID-19

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Michael Fanone, left, a Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer who was attacked and beaten during the Jan. 6, attack at the U.S. Capitol, and Harry Dunn, a U.S. Capitol Police officer who faced the rioters, leave a meeting with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, June 25, 2021. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday she's creating a special committee to investigate the attack by a mob of Trump supporters who sought to interrupt the certification of Joe Biden's presidential election victory. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Officer Michael Fanone asks Kevin McCarthy to denounce GOP remarks on Jan. 6 riot

By Mary Clare Jalonick and Kevin Freking - Associated Press

In this April 23, 2020, file image from video, Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., speaks on the floor of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. The Democratic-led House, with the backing of President Joe Biden, is expected to approve legislation Thursday, June 17, 2021, to repeal the 2002 authorization for use of military force in Iraq. (House Television via AP) ** FILE **

House votes to repeal 2002 Iraq War authorization

By Kevin Freking - Associated Press

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks to reporters just after the Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the Obama-era health care law, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 17, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Nancy Pelosi says no plans to remove metal detectors five months later

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Ilhan Omar’s anti-Israel, anti-U.S. rhetoric opens rift in House Democratic Caucus

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump acknowledges the crowd before he speaks at the North Carolina Republican Convention Saturday, June 5, 2021, in Greenville, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Seward)

Trump loyalty put to the test in New Jersey GOP primary

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 24, 2020, file photo, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testifies during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on the Postal Service on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Tom Williams/Pool via AP, File)

‘Get used to me’: Postmaster Louis DeJoy evokes Trump style in Biden era

By Will Weissert - Associated Press