The legislation criminalizes transgender treatment providers and guardians of children who facilitate such medical care.

Four House Republicans broke ranks with their leadership to force a vote on a three-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.

The discharge petition collected the needed 218 signatures, but procedural rules will delay any vote on it until January, after subsidies expire for 583,000 Ohioans.

The Democratic measure was defeated mostly along party lines, along with another resolution that would have halted the military’s escalating campaign of boat attacks.

An expanded U.S. federal healthcare subsidy that grew out of the pandemic looked all but certain to expire on December 31 as Republican leaders on Wednesday faced a rebellion within their ranks in support of a Democratic-backed extension of the "Obamacare" benefit.

The president’s approval ratings reached their lowest numbers in late November. Even some supporters say he has done too little to improve their lives.

The measure had little chance of consideration in the Senate, where it would need bipartisan support to move, but it reflected the priorities of the Republican majority.