House Republicans' first big legislative test

Despite the lengthy battle Speaker Kevin McCarthy needed to take control of the chamber, House Republicans have already netted some impressive victories. They forced President Joe Biden to issue his first veto to protect his costly and wrongheaded environmental, social, and governance regulations that will raise domestic energy prices and slash pensioners’ income from retirement investments.

House Republicans also shielded the District of Columbia from a woefully weak crime bill that would have encouraged violence and theft. Not even Biden could defend the D.C. Council’s dangerous legislation — he was forced to flip-flop from supporting D.C.’s Democrats to siding with the commonsense tough-on-crime policies of the Republican Party.