The House GOP released a resolution Thursday to formalize its months-long impeachment inquiry into President Biden, with a full House vote planned for next week. The resolution authorizing the inquiry — released months after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) declared an impeachment inquiry to be underway in September — comes as a trio of committee leaders overseeing the probes enter a more combative phase of their investigation as they try to wrangle witnesses and documents. It says the panels are “directed to continue their ongoing investigations as part of the House of Representa ..read more

No government funding bills are scheduled to hit the House floor this week, an ominous sign for Republicans returning to Washington for the first time since their Thanksgiving recess. Lawmakers face a mid-January deadline to fund the government or enter a partial government shutdown, and the window for completing its work is fast closing. Losing an entire week without passing an appropriations bill won't lead to a shutdown. But it doesn't help either. After this week, the House is set to be in session for just 16 legislative days before the first of a two-part deadline to fund the government o ..read more

CHICAGO (NewsNation) — NewsNation announced Thursday it will host the fourth 2024 Republican presidential primary debate at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The live debate will air on NewsNation, at 8 p.m. ET on Dec. 6. It will be broadcast simultaneously in the eastern and central time zones on the company's broadcast television network, The CW. Watch: Vivek Ramaswamy town hall with NewsNation Since the first 2024 debate, the crowded GOP primary race has slowly narrowed. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, entrepreneur  ..read more

WASHINGTON D.C. -- Both of Indiana's U.S. Senators, U.S. Senator Todd Young, R-Ind. and U.S. Senator Mike Braun, R-Ind., signed a bipartisan resolution in support of Israel in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. According to previous reports, Hamas attacked Gaza and killed more than 1,400 Israelis, ultimately triggering this conflict. Since then, attacks in this conflict have killed thousands of other people through air raids and other military operations. The bipartisan resolution calls for standing with Israel against terrorism. According to the resolution, the members of the U.S. Senate ..read more

Update (9:11 a.m. on Oct. 17) Some Indiana lawmakers have sent out updated statements surrounding the potential vote for the Speaker of the House on Tuesday. In a statement sent out late Monday, U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind. District 5 said: “Since politics is complicated with many things happening behind the scenes, I owe my constituents and all Americans an explanation of my position on the current situation with the speaker’s race. I dedicated most of my adult life to Republican politics, since my kids were in strollers, and probably more energy to it than to family and businesses. The ..read more

NEW YORK (AP) — A former Indiana congressman who once served as a House prosecutor at former President Bill Clinton’s 1998 impeachment trial should spend three years in prison for committing insider trading while working as a consultant and lobbyist after his congressional career, prosecutors urged Wednesday. Steve Buyer, 64, of Noblesville, Indiana, is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11 for his March conviction by a jury on four securities fraud charges. He served in Congress from 1993 to 2011. Prosecutors said in a Manhattan federal court submission that the Republican deserves a ..read more

NEW YORK (AP) — A former Indiana congressman should spend no time in prison after his insider trading conviction, his lawyers told a judge Wednesday. Steve Buyer, 64, of Noblesville, Indiana, was convicted by a jury in Manhattan federal court in March of four securities fraud charges after a two-week trial for stock trades he made while working as a consultant and lobbyist after he finished serving in Congress from 1993 to 2011. He was convicted in connection with insider trading involving the $26.5 billion merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, announced in April 2018, and stock purchases he made at ..read more

The Biden administration is proposing to tighten a key air pollution regulation after the Trump administration declined to do so.  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed on Friday to tighten limits on how much soot can be in the air, though some environmentalists are calling on the agency to go even further to protect public health.  Exposure to soot pollution, also known as fine particle pollution, has been linked to heart attacks, asthma and premature deaths.  ..read more

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up a case with the potential to fundamentally reshape elections for Congress and the presidency. The justices are hearing arguments Wednesday over the power of state courts to strike down congressional districts drawn by the legislature because they violate state constitutions. Republicans from North Carolina who are bringing the case to the high court argue that a provision of the U.S. Constitution known as the elections clause gives state lawmakers virtually total control over the “times, places and manner” of congressional el ..read more

WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 were honored Tuesday with Congressional Gold Medals nearly two years after they fought supporters of then-President Donald Trump in a brutal and bloody attack. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi praised the “heroes” as she opened the ceremony in the the stately Capitol Rotunda, which was overrun that day when Trump supporters roamed the halls trying to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden's election. In bestowing Congress' highest honor, Pelosi praised the heroes for “courageously answering the call t ..read more