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Rob Porter, right, White House staff secretary, and Don McGahn, White House counsel, attend the Republican retreat in West Virginia last week. Porter resigned this week amid allegations of domestic abuse. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Rob Porter Has Left White House Amid Abuse Scandal

By John T. Bennett
Posted February 8, 2018 at 4:00pm
Tennessee Rep. Phil Roe is running for re-election. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Tennessee’s Phil Roe Running for Sixth Term

By Simone Pathé
Posted February 8, 2018 at 3:26pm
Life comes at you fast. GOP Rep. John Culberson is one of the Democratic targets in Texas. Here Culberson embraces new technology at President Barack Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress in 2009. The photo caption in our archives said the congressman was using “an internet-enabled camera to stream live video” and he “was also sending updates to twitter.com from the House floor." (CQ Roll Call File Photo) 

At the Races: Everything’s Bigger In Texas

By Bridget Bowman and Simone Pathé
Posted February 8, 2018 at 3:00pm
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she and her leadership team would not whip the vote on the budget deal. Then they started whipping the vote. Sort of. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

When Is a Whip a Whip? House Democrats Might Not Be Best Ones to Ask Right Now

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted February 8, 2018 at 2:44pm
Immigration rights demonstrators prepare to march from the White House to the Trump Hotel and the Justice Department to oppose President Trump's decision to end the DACA program for "dreamers" on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Trump Likely Has Authority To Extend DACA Deadline, Experts Say

By John T. Bennett
Posted February 8, 2018 at 1:59pm
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., right, and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., make their way to the Senate floor after announcing a two-year deal on the budget earlier in the day on February 7, 2018. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Kentucky Colleges Get a Boost From Budget Deal

By Ryan McCrimmon
Posted February 8, 2018 at 1:40pm
President Donald Trump has nominated Emory A. Rounds III to head the Office of Government Ethics, a choice praised by a frequent critic of the president. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Trump Critic Praises Trump Pick for Ethics Office

By Kate Ackley
Posted February 8, 2018 at 1:00pm
Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., says he is committed to consider an immigration issue, but that does not appear to be enough for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Ryan Offers Immigration Commitment But Not One Pelosi Wants

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted February 8, 2018 at 12:36pm
Volunteers for Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff arrive at his campaign office in Atlanta one day before the April special election. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

DCCC Expands to 101 Targets in 2018

By Bridget Bowman
Posted February 8, 2018 at 12:25pm
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi speaks with reporters as she leaves the House chamber in the Capitol after holding a floor speech focusing on DACA for more than eight hours Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Pelosi to Vote ‘No’ on Budget, But Won’t Whip Caucus

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted February 8, 2018 at 11:10am