Lawmakers Push Bill to Give Congress Oversight of Advanced AI Chip Sales

Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) presides over a hearing about USAID on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 13, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times The House Foreign Affairs Committee, with broad bipartisan support, on Jan. 21 advanced for a full floor vote a bill that would give Congress oversight of foreign advanced

Jack Smith set to testify publicly for first time at House hearing

  33m ago Testimony comes after months of Smith offering to appear publicly In an October letter from his lawyers to lawmakers, Smith offered to testify before both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. In December, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan of Ohio, subpoenaed him to appear behind closed doors

House Passes Spending Package to Fund Government

The U.S. Capitol building at sunset on Jan. 12, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The House passed a package of spending bills on Jan. 22 to fund the federal government. Lawmakers approved a measure funding the Departments of Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development by a vote of