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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg provided only a few additional details about the company's proposed cryptocurrency to a House Financial Services Committee on Oct. 23 that generally didn't like what it heard.

Zuckerberg said Facebook wouldn't proceed with the proposed Libra until it had satisfied regulators' concerns. That pledge and the harsh criticism from lawmakers on both sides the aisle appears to narrow, if not eliminate, the company's path to approval, at least for a project as sweepingly ambitious as Libra is.

Houstonians will decide on Tuesday who to elect as the next city controller, which isn't an easy thing to do. The controller is the city's financial watchdog, an independent elected official who keeps an eye on the city's cash flow. But voting for a controller can be tricky — how do you know if an incumbent is doing a good job, and how do you know if a challenger would do it better?

To the average ear, the controller might sound like a talking Excel spreadsheet, but there's a lot more going on.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A House divided down the middle took steps forward Thursday to formalize the impeachment inquiry process and make the ongoing congressional investigation open to the public.

The resolution was approved with a vote of 232 to 196. All of the Texas Democrats voted for the resolution. All of the Republicans voted no.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House took a formal step Thursday toward impeaching President Donald Trump as the chamber passed a measure that lays down the rules going forward in the current fact-finding phase.

The 2018 midterm elections gave the United States a staggering 116th Congress, important in part for the number of women who assumed office and for the diversity among those women.

The first openly gay member of the Senate. The first two Muslim women elected to Congress. The first two Native American congresswomen. The youngest woman elected to Congress.

Stablecoins are Securities Act of 2019

The bill plans to regulate stablecoins under the Securities Act of 1933.

WASHINGTON — Six hours after lawmakers began grilling Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on his cryptocurrency plans, House members from both sides of the aisle expressed dissatisfaction with the lengthy testimony.

Zuckerberg took questions from the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday, three months after David Marcus, Facebook's cryptocurrency chief, failed in his testimony to give politicians confidence that the company would wait for a regulatory structure before launching its libra project.

WASHINGTON – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told lawmakers that the company would pull out of the Libra Association in the event the consortium launched its proposed cryptocurrency without all needed regulatory approvals.