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President Donald Trump has urged Majority Leader John Thune to keep senators in session through August to get his nominees ...
With looming deadlines and a backlog of legislative business, President Donald Trump is urging lawmakers to stay in town to work.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said he wants to give the White House “space” to release the Epstein information on its own.
Throughout history, the US Capitol has been destroyed by fire, reconstructed, expanded and restored. The US Capitol Police (USCP) are charged with protecting Congress’ members, employees, visitors and ...
Texas Democrats on Thursday slammed the GOP’s unusual push to redraw the state’s House maps to win more seats ahead of the ...
A new Congress is in place for the last two weeks of the Biden administration. Speaker Mike Johnson's control of the House seems no stronger than it was in the previous Congress.
US President Donald Trump is speaking to a joint session of Congress six weeks after he returned to the White House. His flurry of executive orders and cuts to services have sparked widespread anger.
Texas Democrats are considering their options to block a Republican-led effort to redraw the state's congressional maps ...
Now that the U.S. midterm elections are over, Congress is scheduled to hold a post-election special work period called a "lame-duck session" that begins on Nov. 15.
Backbenchers in the president's party stalled the legislation while objecting to welfare cuts and the impact on US national ...
As Congress — the 117th Congress, to be precise — speeds toward a government shutdown, we slowed down to look back at the first Congress. Are things really all that different now than they were at the ...