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The remarks were the sharpest condemnation yet from the once-loyal Trump lieutenant.

An inspector general report released last year found “administrative, ethical and policy violations” by Blanton, including that he abused his government vehicle and misrepresented himself as a law enforcement official.

Steven Weitzman is going to bring a civil rights icon to life in the U.S. Capitol. He is producing a statue of Barbara Rose Johns, who as a 16-year-old girl helped bring the downfall of segregated schooling. The statue will replace one of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Washington has one specialty that has long endured — memorializing and coming together over a national trauma. But that unifying impulse has faded. On Friday's second anniversary of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, a moment of silence drew mostly Democrats.

Lawmakers are wrapping up the two-year session having found surprisingly common ground on big bills, despite enduring bitter political divisions that haunt the halls, and the country, after the bloody Capitol attack by supporters of the defeated president, Donald Trump.

A $1.7 trillion spending package pending in Congress would give a boost to the Capitol Police as the force grapples with threats against lawmakers. The funding bill marks a $975 million, or roughly 16.5%, increase over fiscal 2022 levels. The measure has taken on larger importance after the recent assault on the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The House Jan. 6 committee may have outlined a potential criminal case against Donald Trump, but it doesn’t actually bring the former president any closer to prosecution.

The Jan. 6 committee set out to compile a public record for history of the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. But after 18 months and more than 1,000 interviews, its final report has become so much more — a “roadmap to justice,” Chairman Bennie Thompson said.

Documentarian Alexandra Pelosi is releasing a new film focusing on her mother’s rise in Congress over three decades. The film follows House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, literally, through the Capitol and behind the scenes as she negotiates key votes for major pieces of legislation.