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Hockey brawls to debt limit: Emmer wrangles House GOP votes
It's not an easy job corralling votes from House Republicans and trying to hold together a fractious majority well enough to pass party priorities. That task now falls to a former youth hockey coach from Minnesota, Rep. Tom Emmer.
The DOJ searched Biden's home and found more classified documents
President Joe Biden's personal lawyers had already searched his Wilmington home for classified documents. The DOJ did another search and found still more, some dating back to Biden's time in the Senate.
Top Biden aide Ron Klain expected to soon leave White House
Klain’s expected departure comes not long after the White House and Democrats had a better-than-expected showing in the November elections. But now that Republicans have regained a majority in the House, the White House is preparing to shift to a more defensive posture.
Why we have a debt ceiling, and why this trip to the brink may be different
We have been here before. But this time the House's new Republican majority is largely driven by a faction that says it will hold the debt limit vote as a hostage to win policy changes.