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Discover the untold story of how Texas narrowly missed becoming a significantly larger state, including potential land in New Mexico and Arizona!

WASHINGTON (AP) — A nearly six-hour grilling of TikTok’s CEO by lawmakers brought the platform’s 150 million U.S. users no closer to an answer as to whether the app will be wiped from their devices.

Elaine Hays, Gus Trujillo, and Josh Winegarner are all confirmed to attend.

Congressman Mac Thornberry (R-Clarendon), who also serves as Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, voted in favor of a bill that declares the actions of ISIS genocide against Christians and other ethnic groups.

Congressman Mac Thornberry (R-Clarendon), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, released a statement regarding President Obama's plan to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay.

With the government shutdown rolling on, it’s no surprise to hear Americans don’t exactly have a high opinion of Congress.

Food stamps have been the center of controversy for years.  And now, Congress has been presented with new legislation: Should people who get food stamps be banned from buying junk food?

If you’ve ever listened to a member of Congress speak and felt like you were being addressed as a child, it’s not your imagination. A new study shows congresspeople now talk at a 10th grade level — a full grade lower than they did just seven years ago.

Recently, a poll of their Congressional approval rating found that only nine percent of the American people had a favorable rating of their senators and representatives. So the congressmen buckled down and got to work and got their rating up to…17 percent. If they want to keep up this white hot pace, they should try some of these ideas.

The re-election rates for members of Congress hovers between 85 and 95 percent. Yet, according to a new survey from Poll Position, the majority of American people would like new rules which would prevent them from sending the same represenatives to Washington, DC year after year.

On Tuesday, we told you about some of the sites — Wikipedia, Reddit and the Cheezburger network among them — that planned to go dark today in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), anti-piracy legislation under consideration by the US Congress. They weren’t the only stops on the internet to take a stand — here’s a roundup of some of the most prominent peaceful prot

Really?  When did that happen?  If that is the case I'll take 5 servings please so I can have my daily required servings of veggies.  Seriously, when did pizza become a vegetable?  According to a bill going before Congress, the tomato paste would be considered a serving of vegetables (which apparently has been so for years).