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Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) had to fight for speaking time during a contentious confrontation with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday morning, at one time having to exclaim, “Whoa, whoa, whoa,” to get the Donald Trump appointee to hush.

As the ranking Democratic member of the House Armed Services Committee, Smith got the first shot at the former Fox News personality and was barely able to finish his questions before the amped up Hegseth began spouting talking points about the success of the Iran war that has continued to drag on.

Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO) sided with Democrats Tuesday to defeat a House rule advancing the annual farm bill after Republican leadership rejected her amendments.

Boebert filed non-controversial amendments to support rural Coloradans, which Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO) submitted to the Rules Committee for floor consideration. However, Republicans on the committee unanimously voted against considering her amendments.

Fox News host Bill Hemmer stopped Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) cold after the lawmaker smeared former FBI Director James Comey by listing alleged crimes that he had not been charged with.

A day after the former FBI director was charged with threatening President Donald Trump's life with a photo of seashells, Jordan spoke to Hemmer about the case.

The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a major blow to voting rights by striking down struck down a majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana.

The 6-3 decision was split along ideological lines, and conservative Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion finding that Louisiana’s voting map amounted to an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, while liberal Justice Elena Kagan dissented.

A retiring Republican congressman trashed the State Department's plan to issue passports honoring President Donald Trump.

An agency official said Americans who renew their documents in Washington, D.C., will be issued passports with the 79-year-old president's face and his signature printed in gold on the inside cover, and CNN's John Berman asked Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) what he thought about the government's plan.

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) has lost his legal battle to try to throw a Democratic rival off her primary ballot.

According to The Journal News, Lawler, who is facing one of the most difficult re-elections of any Republican in Congress this year, sought to have Effie Phillips-Staley, a progressive local trustee of Tarrytown, disqualified from the ballot on the grounds of fraudulent signature collection.

The Supreme Court handed down its hotly anticipated decision in Callais v. Louisiana, weakening — but not completely eliminating — Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which regulates the drawing of districts based on race.

The case came about as a result of lower-court rulings that had forced Louisiana to draw a second majority-Black district, which Republicans had challenged.

In its latest legal filings, the Department of Justice removed a claim that a Secret Service officer was shot when Cole Allen allegedly tried to breach the White House Correspondents' Dinner with firearms on Saturday.

The Department asserted in its probable cause affidavit over the weekend that Allen "approached and ran through the magnetometer holding a long gun."

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was on the receiving end of a tongue-lashing on MS NOW on Wednesday morning for holding a press conference to announce criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey for posting a picture of seashells that the DOJ maintains was a threat to Donald Trump.

According to Blanche, the photo of shells spelling out “8647” was an implicit threat to the president's life, adding, “This is something that has been investigated for nearly a year now, and the results of that investigation is that a grand jury returned an indictment."

A new poll from Emerson College released on Wednesday gave Democrats in Congress a jaw-dropping advantage going into the midterm elections this fall.

The poll, which showed a 50-40 advantage for Democrats on the generic congressional ballot among a sample of likely voters, triggered an immediate reaction from analysts.