A bill the group supports would cut down the waiting period by several months, but the proposal will go nowhere in the U.S. House, where Republicans hold a majority.

Source: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/8/24/23843537/humanitarian-migrant-asylum-seekers-crisis-more-help-needed-illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-editorial

A new Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives pushing for sharp spending cuts.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/veterans-of-2011-u-s-debt-ceiling-fight-see-tougher-battle-ahead/article_f09f7482-d5f3-5375-8f8f-815a88697e65.html

A report from a U.S. House Oversight subcommittee at the start of 2021 urged regulators to set maximum levels of toxic heavy metals permitted in multi-billion-dollar baby food industry.

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2023/01/25/704383.htm

As a result, McCarthy – who came up short on his first three attempts to become the next speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday – lost another three votes on Wednesday.

Source: https://www.fitsnews.com/2023/01/05/gop-dysfunction-deepens-as-donald-trump-fails-to-impact-speakers-race/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gop-dysfunction-deepens-as-donald-trump-fails-to-impact-speakers-race

Biden quoted the late John Lewis, a civil rights leader and the youngest speaker at the 1963 march who went on to become a U.S. House member from Georgia.

Source: https://ncnewsline.com/2023/08/29/hate-will-not-prevail-in-america-biden-marks-60-years-since-march-on-washington/

Bills introduced in the U.S. House and Senate this week to fund research into controlling lanternflies drew bipartisan support, including Pennsylvania’s two Democrat senators, John Fetterman and Bob Casey, and J.D. Vance, Ohio’s new Republican senator.

Source: https://www.mcall.com/2023/06/08/congress-in-unity-battling-the-spotted-lanternfly/

China began drills around Taiwan on Saturday in anger at President Tsai Ing-wen's meeting with the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday.

Source: https://www.marketscreener.com/news/latest/Macron-says-Europe-should-not-follow-U-S-or-Chinese-policy-over-Taiwan--43457289/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=20230409

Congress regularly (if begrudgingly) votes to raise the ceiling, but Republicans in the U.S. House are now demanding strict cuts to services in exchange for their votes.

Source: https://alaskapublic.org/2023/05/25/what-happens-in-alaska-if-the-united-states-defaults-on-its-debt-next-month/

Donald Trump posted an image of himself holding the gavel from the U.S. House of Representatives to the Truth Social platform on Wednesday afternoon.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/10/04/donald-trump-posts-image-of-himself-as-speaker-of-the-house/

Earlier on Wednesday, China said President Tsai Ing-wen was pushing Taiwan into “stormy seas” after meeting with U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California.

Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/9617597/china-airspace-taiwan/

Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks onstage during The New York Times Dealbook Summit 2023 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Nov. 29, 2023, in New York City.

Source: https://m.startribune.com/mccarthy-privately-recounts-terse-phone-call-with-trump-after-ouster/600323448/

His father was Absalom Robertson, a Virginia Democrat who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate for more than three decades.

Source: https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/508893/pat-robertson-televangelist-who-mobilized-christian-voters-dead-at-93

In 2008, after a protracted process and struggle, the U.S. House of Representatives created an independent Office of Congressional Ethics, or OCE.

Source: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/show-to-resolve-the-supreme-courts-ethics-problem.html?via=rss

In 2020, Miller-Meeks won her seat in the U.S. House by just six votes.

Source: https://www.radioiowa.com/2023/10/18/miller-meeks-breaks-with-iowa-gop-peers-in-vote-for-house-speaker/

Inexperienced and untested, the new speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives faces a baptism of fire as he contends with a pile-up of deadlines, a razor-thin majority and a raucous right wing that is unlikely to allow him an extended honeymoon period.

Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/10/26/world/politics/mike-johnson-us-house-speaker/

It may have prompted U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s rethink of his visit to Taiwan; McCarthy requested instead that Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen meet him in the United States.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/07/okinawa-japan-china-us-bases-soft-power/

Johnson, a father of four, has represented Louisiana’s 4th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2017.

Source: https://www.queerty.com/mike-johnson-defends-anti-gay-past-but-claims-he-now-loves-us-despite-our-lifestyle-choices-20231027?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mike-johnson-defends-anti-gay-past-but-claims-he-now-loves-us-despite-our-lifestyle-cho

Owens, former communication director of TPUSA, denied white supremacy is harmful in testimony in front of a U.S. House Oversight Joint Subcommittee hearing in 2019.

Source: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-uic-student-protests-tpusa-20230310-qhiigaadwngsrncmvajzvmyz7i-story.html

Paul Teller, executive director of Advancing American Freedom, previously served as chief of staff to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and executive director of the Republican Study Committee in the U.S. House.

Source: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/01/19/freedom-agenda-offers-hopeful-vision-for-americas-future/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=freedom-agenda-offers-hopeful-vision-for-americas-future

Pictured: Lujan Grisham, then a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, speaks at a news conference on June 13, 2018, in Washington.

Source: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/09/14/new-mexico-governors-insanely-unconstitutional-gun-edict-slapped-court/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-mexico-governors-insanely-unconstitutional-gun-edict-slapped-court