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Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman pled guilty last week to torching a police vehicle at a Brooklyn riot in May 2020.

Proponents have passed similar bills before, but this time they’ll have to contend with a White House striving to rekindle relations with Saudi Arabia.

A number of people who have struggled to find out housing spoke up in support of the bill, but several housing groups warned against moving too fast.

Kim Corbin has left the Hill after nearly a decade and a half to join the consulting firm Pioneer Public Affairs as a partner.

The resolution will for the first time give House aides the same legal protections for collective bargaining enjoyed by other workers.

House Democrats voted overwhelmingly to allow thousands of congressional aides working on their personal office staffs to form ...

Congressional staffers will now be able to start forming unions on an office-by-office basis.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi has announced that the salary floor for U.S. House of Representative staffers has been raised to $45,000. 

The House will increase the annual minimum pay for congressional staff members to $45,000 a year and vote on permitting its workers to unionize, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday.

The resolution, if passed by the House, would allow staffers in the chamber to unionize their offices in a historic first for Congress.