Vice President Mike Pence used a lunch with Republican senators at the Capitol to try keeping them aboard, citing a dangerous crisis at the border, but there were no signs he'd succeeded.
And the new chairman, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., is promising serious probes that could have consequences for Trump and administration officials who saw relatively little oversight under the Republican-led House.
They are a younger generation of lawmakers — including a record number of women — arriving flush with victory and optimism.
A popular Facebook message claiming that 260 members of congress had settled sexual assault charges seriously misread the data.
Rep. Drew Ferguson posted, and then deleted, an image with German soldiers from his Twitter account.
A collage purportedly showing members of the US Congress sleeping at their desks actually shows various Brazilian politicians napping over the years.
As of November 2017, the tax reform bill would make changes to some employee benefits, but not employee discounts.
Text messages presented in a news article appear to suggest Murphy asked Shannon Edwards to have an abortion.
A long-held GOP seat is being challenged by a young Democrat in a race that many see as a sign of what's to come in the 2018 midterms.
H.J. Res. 69 nullifies previously imposed federal protections for bears, wolves, and other predatory animals on national wildlife refuges in Alaska.
According to memes, Congressional members and staffers are offered free, no-strings-attached health care, but there's more to the story.
Legislation advanced by the GOP included bills to terminate the EPA, repeal the Affordable Care Act, defund Planned Parenthood, and criminalize certain types of abortion.
In 2012, President Obama was overheard over a hot microphone telling President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia he would have "more flexibility" to negotiate with Putin after the election.
The "Gyro Drop" is a real amusement park ride, but a popular video of it relies on some imagination.
A niche genre of 'satire' sexualizes animated characters.
As of late May 2019, a new Facebook feature allowing users to report technical problems by shaking their phones was being rolled out gradually to all mobile accounts.
In the early 1900s, Allan Warner documented several cases of smallpox and the effects of vaccinations.
