Congressional election observers are being deployed to Iowa to monitor the recount in an uncalled House race.  The House Committee on Administration, which provides oversight of federal elections, announced on X that “Congressional Election Observers are being deployed to Iowa to observe the recount of the First Congressional District race.”  Chairman Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wisc., “is committed to ensuring an accurate count of all legal ballots,” the committee’s GOP...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., declined to answer when asked on Tuesday whether Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., is a man or woman, but the speaker later made a statement in which he declared, “A man cannot become a woman.”  McBride, a Delaware state senator who identifies as transgender, won election to the U.S. House of Representatives this year and will become the first openly transgender member of Congress...