The Latest Breaking News from The US House of Representatives

The Checks and Balances Letter delivers news and information from Ballotpedia’s Administrative State Project, including pivotal actions at the federal and state levels related to the separation of powers, due process, and the rule of law.

Trump and Harris, the Republican and Democratic nominees, are frontrunners as few other candidates remain

Watch as the US House of Representatives is expected to vote on a bill to raise the debt ceiling on Wednesday 31 May.

Republican U.S. congressman George Santos, who has Brazilian heritage, agreed to settle a lawsuit in which he was accused of bouncing checks to buy clothes in a Rio de Janeiro clothing store over a decade ago, a court in Rio said.

The Navy has renamed the USS Chancellorsville, a name honoring a Confederate victory, to the USS Robert Smalls, after an enslaved man who escaped the South by stealing a Confederate steamship.

The US House of Representatives has voted to strip China of its status as a developing country. China has condemned the move and refuses to join the ranks of developed or "wealthy" nations. At stake are critical economic and geopolitical issues for the world’s second-largest economy.

The US House of Representatives rejected, by a large majority, a bill submitted by conservative Republican Representative Matt Gaetz, to demand that President Joe Biden withdraw US forces deployed in Syria within 6 months. Opponents of the measure warned that such a step could allow ISIS to regroup, exposing the…