The Washington Post’s essential guide to power and influence in D.C. The government has been shut down, and the House has been out of session, for all of October.

Brockman is in jail in High Point. A week after his arrest on sex crime charges, he has not so far heeded calls to resign.

Madigan’s surrender caps a massive corruption investigation that hearkens back to an earlier era at Chicago’s federal courthouse. He has been sentenced to 7½ years behind bars.

The House has not been in session for several weeks amid the shutdown. Some GOP lawmakers say it’s time for it to return.

In his last Session as a state lawmaker, CFO Blaise Ingoglia filed a bill to raise homestead exemptions with House support from Rep. Ryan Chamberlin, who in 2024 carried a bill to excise what he and others have called “ the most hated tax in America ” from Florida law.

With millions of Americans set to turn out for the second “No Kings Day” protests across the nation on Saturday, a top U.S. House Republican sees the day of action another way entirely. “It’s all the pro-Hamas wing and, you know, the Antifa people,” U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told Fox News in a recent interview.

Officials in Italy say a house explosion that killed 3 police was a deliberate attack by residents who had previously resisted eviction.

The messages, obtained by POLITICO, show that Young Republican leaders praised Hitler and joked about slavery and rape.