The House passed a bill on Thursday to extend the Affordable Care Act enhanced subsidies for three years by a vote of 230-196 with 17 Republicans voting with Democrats and defying GOP leaders. Ahead of the vote, Democrats boasted that several Republicans were expected to defy their leadership team.

Earlier in the day, the Senate advanced a bipartisan measure intended to block the Trump administration from conducting further military action in Venezuela. Five Republicans joined every Democratic senator in advancing the resolution, following the White House’s capture of Venezuela’s president, without explicit permission from Congress.

If upheld by the Supreme Court, as seems likely, the challenge to Section 2 would turn the Voting Rights Act on its head.

U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn was the only member of Iowa's congressional delegation to support extending the Obamacare subsidies.

According to the Bipartisan Policy Center, Arizona, which has required proof of citizenship to vote since 2004, has disproportionately disenfranchised or made it much more difficult to vote for college students and individuals experiencing homelessness — both transient populations that are more likely to lack identifying documentation.

In a remarkable rebuke of Republican leadership, the House voted to extend expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act.