Five House Democrats broke away from their party leaders on Tuesday night to vote with Republicans on a measure cracking down on transgender participation in school sports. The House voted on a slew of amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Tuesday, an annual bill setting military and national security policy each fiscal year. Among those that prevailed was an amendment led by Rep. Nancy Mace,...

A convicted heroin trafficker’s appeal could upend one of the federal government’s most-used gun laws after a federal appeals court agreed to reconsider its constitutional foundation, weeks after Justice Clarence Thomas urged lower courts to take a fresh look at whether Congress had the authority to enact it. The full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals voted Monday to rehear United States v. Squire, a case that could determine...

The late Sen. John Warner, R-Va., said to me once that “we don’t do a lot in Congress. But when we do it, we do it all at once.” That is kind of where we find the House of Representatives today. Today is the penultimate day in the House before the August recess. In fact, the House may not be here much at all until after the election....