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U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Camas, delivers letters written to the troops from first-grade students at Captain Strong Elementary school in Battle Ground.

There are 436 representatives and 100 senators in Congress today. The Washington press corps is comprised of several dozens of reporters.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Jack Reed , D-R.I., speak exclusively to ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz, Sunday on "This Week." The debate over Benghazi was reignited this week as new testimony and newly-revealed emails brought fresh scrutiny to the Sept.

Endeavoring to rebrand their party, GOP elders do not want voters conjuring up names like Richard Mourdock and Todd Akin when they hear the words "Republican Party." They want you to think of Martha Roby.

BENGHAZI TALKING POINTS UNDERWENT 12 REVISIONS: When it became clear last fall that the CIA's now discredited Benghazi talking points were flawed, the White House said repeatedly the documents were put together almost entirely by the intelligence community, but White House documents reviewed by Congress suggest a different story, ABC's JONATHAN ... (more)

THE apparent enthusiasm in the U.S. Senate for the Marketplace Fairness Act, which passed on Monday 67-27, obscures the difficulty of getting a meaningful tax-reform bill through a gridlocked Congress.

During congressional recesses, members of Congress leave the Capitol campus and beleaguered staffers may get a day or two away, but HOH is always on duty! Here's a roundup of the highlights from keeping a watchful eye on Capitol Hill, even during a slow week.

Window-breaking anarchists have monopolized media coverage of May Day in Western Washington over recent years, but the biggest number of people taking to streets across the Evergreen State will be marching to get legal access to the American Dream.

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, the Southwest Washington congresswoman from Camas, announced Wednesday that she is pregnant with her first child.

The fiery debate is coming to a head. Will the Washington Legislature agree to pay for its part of the Columbia River Crossing? The more than $3 billion project cost has been scrutinized.

A Washington congresswoman in a position to influence the federal dollars available for Hanford environmental cleanup got her first look at Hanford on Monday since becoming a U.S. representative.

The US Senate today approved cloture on debate on the Marketplace Fairness Act , a bill that would finally allow states to collect sales tax from out-of-state resellers.