Today the House votes on rules for the 118th Congress, which orders all documents from the House Jan. 6 committee go to the House Admin Committee rather than to the National Archives as expected. All docs already sent to the Archives must be returned

latimes.com/politics/story… The J6 committee placed thousands of documents, transcripts, etc into a public Government Publishing Office repository. But that’s just a fraction of the information they had. Current House rules say the rest was to be sent to the National Archives and released in 30 years.

I started covering the events leading up to the Jan. 6 attack back in February and rule No. 1 of a new beat is figure out who you should know. As I dug and dug (and dug) it led me to this piece.
latimes.com/politics/story… Much of the proof offered in crafting the “Big Lie” came from a motley crew of both big players and people unfamiliar to the public, who left their daily lives, families and jobs for weeks to travel to Washington to support the Trump campaign’s widely debunked claims of fraud.

This summer I asked a former senior Hill staff member about safety at the Capitol and he brought up unprompted that he was aghast people got through Capitol windows on #Jan6 because the windows were supposed to be bomb proof. It sent me down a rabbit hole latimes.com/politics/story… So I started making phone calls to people who might know the answer. I physically identified which windows weren't reinforced, got access to rooms I'm not allowed in so I could look at window frames. I watched hours of riot footage. Looked through decades old appropriations

Twenty years ago, @RepBarbaraLee stood before her House colleagues and pleaded with them not to give President Bush a blank check to wage war

With the stunning fall of Kabul to the Taliban the Oakland lawmaker has been heralded as an ignored oracle latimes.com/politics/story… Lee didn’t know in September 2001 that she would be the only no vote on the Authorization for the Use of Military Force that the House approved, 420 to 1, after the attacks

The Justice Department has closed its investigation into the death of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot by a police officer Jan. 6 at the Capitol. Says "officials determined that there is insufficient evidence to support a criminal prosecution." Babbitt was shot while attempting to climb through a glass pane in a door leading into the Speakers Lobby outside the House chamber while members of Congress (and reporters) were still being evacuated from the chamber

House is now debating the rules governing the 25 Amendment resolution they will vote on later tonight and in just the first few moment we've already learned new horrific things about Wednesday
-One Capitol Police officer may lose an eye
-An officer was shot at with his own gun It's almost surreal to sit here and listen to representatives in the House chamber talk calmly about an attack they went through in the House chamber

Millions of Americans lost unemployment benefits today.

Congress waited until the last minute, but passed a bill to extend unemployment for those people through mid-March. The president hasn't signed it. Congress attached the unemployment benefits and a $600 check for most Americans to a bill that funds much of the government through the federal fiscal year that ends in September. Without the president's signature on that bill, the government largely shuts down Tuesday

I’m loathe to insert myself in the news, but as the Chair of the Standing Committee of Correspondents I am compelled to weigh in on the restrictions to press access during the Senate impeachment trial that are being proposed. Bear with me. The Standing Committee of Correspondents vigorously objects to restrictions being considered on press access during the upcoming Senate trial of President Trump.

The #116thCongress has now opened. Members are currently voting present to signal they are here. It's needed to establish the quorum of the House. Singer Tony Bennett is watching from the front row in the House gallery