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"He protected the airport as Americans and our allies escaped to safety. His mission saved thousands of lives. While Rylee was protecting others, he was killed by a terrorist bomb."

Cheney put herself in the crosshairs of Trump when she voted to impeach the former president for his perceived involvement in the January 6 Capitol attack. She is also one of only two Republicans to join the House committee seeking to further investigate the January 6 attack.

Some Democrats who left Texas to block a GOP voting bill have ended a 38-day holdout.

The Senate has moved closer to passing a $1 trillion infrastructure package after lawmakers from both parties came together and voted to clear a key procedural hurdle.

"Nancy Pelosi has made it very clear - she did it on the Sunday show this past week - that that will never see the light of day in the house unless and until the much bigger $3.5 trillion spending bill gets passed in the senate and sent to the house."

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has already threatened Democrats with arrest once they return home, which may not be until the current 30-day session is over.

President Joe Biden has announced a bipartisan agreement on a pared-down but still huge infrastructure plan.

Hastert represented House District 39 from 2003 to 2006, and Senate District 13 from 2007 to 2018.

"Republicans are going to fight for American values; the values which have built this country and made it strong. And we’re going to continue to stand up and fight against these tax increases and massive borrowing and spending that Joe Biden and the liberal left party continue to do in a way that I view as radical, extreme, dangerous, and scary.”

The Associated Press is fact-checking remarks from President Joe Biden's first address to a joint session of Congress and the Republican response.