Rep. French Hill (R-AR) has won the chairmanship of the powerful House Financial Services Committee, beating out three other lawmakers vying for the gavel.
The incoming Republican senator cautioned his conservative peers clambering to tackle the debt crisis next year more will need to be done than spending cuts.
The $895 billion National Defense Authorization Act, which includes pay raises for troops and bans transgender health coverage for minors, heads to the Senate.
Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) said he received information from "very high sources, very qualified sources, very responsible sources" that the mysterious drones were identified as coming from Iran.