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Senators are so far standing firm on letting Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden work out how to address the debt limit.

President Joe Biden issued his veto threat Monday, after the Ways and Means Committee voted last week to approve the joint resolution.

President Joe Biden arrived Tuesday in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on a trip that will also take him to the Republic of Ireland to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement and visit his ancestral homeland.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden departed Tuesday for a trip to Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement and to visit his ancestral homeland.

Biden will highlight agreement that largely ended Catholic-Protestant violence, and endorse a trade agreement that followed Brexit.

WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Friday passed a bill that would mandate local school systems give parents greater oversight over education, making good on a 2022 campaign pledge by Speaker Kevin McCarthy and providing fodder for a 2024 campaign battle over public schools.

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers backing a push from public sector workers to restore higher Social Security payouts are gearing up to capitalize on momentum in the last Congress and force action in the House this year.

Lawmakers backing a push from public sector workers to restore higher Social Security payouts are gearing up for legislative action this year.

Winning control of the most sought-after committees in the House can come with a hefty price tag — in party dues.

A study by a campaign finance advocacy group criticized big donations that leaders of top committees paid as “party dues.”

​WASHINGTON — Rep. Jason Smith, a self-proclaimed “firebrand” preaching a populist image of the GOP, won the nomination to be chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.