Sen. Kyrsten Sinema‘s decision to leave the Democratic Party and register as an independent in Arizona is unlikely to upend the political equilibrium in the Senate. But her announcement could add new complications to the 2024 race in her in...

It’s no secret that money isn’t everything when it comes to political campaigns. In this year’s midterms, at least a couple dozen candidates in competitive races were outspent but still beat their better-funded opponents. That was clear in...

Lawmakers continued to try to finish up their lame-duck work this week. Some of the highlights in this Hits and Misses include Rep. Jerrold Nadler taking a little cat nap on the House floor, Congressional Gold Medal honorees snubbing Senate...

Senate Democrats secured their majority, lawmakers honored police officers who served during the Jan. 6 attack, and a bill to protect same-sex marriage is now headed to the president’s desk. CQ Roll Call photojournalists present the photos...

House Democrats’ current two-seat majority — and Republicans’ narrow edge they will claim in January — is casting a shadow over fiscal 2023 omnibus negotiations as next Friday’s deadline to reach an agreement nears.  Negotiations have slowe...

Decrying partisan divisions, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema said Friday she is leaving the Democratic Party and registering as an independent in Arizona, where she is up for reelection in 2024 and already faced a movement to replace her as the party’s...

Top Democrats are playing hardball on government funding with just over a week before federal agencies run out of budget authority after next Friday night. House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro told reporters Thursday that she’s not curre...

Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. Nearly two years into all-Democratic control of Congress and the...

The annual rush to wrap up legislative work before Christmas means some harried weeks of late nights and early mornings in the office for congressional staff. The added crush of lame-duck legislation that won’t have a shot under GOP control...

Senate Democrats voted in their full slate of leaders for the 118th Congress on Thursday, two days after securing a 51-seat majority. Everything went according to plan, with a source in the room saying that Senate Majority Leader Charles E....

The race for the House Ways and Means Committee chairmanship remains close as contenders prepare to make their final pitches to lead the powerful tax-writing panel. Reps. Vern Buchanan of Florida, Jason Smith of Missouri and Adrian Smith of...

Congress passed a bill to codify federal recognition of same-sex marriages Thursday with some protections for religious freedom, sending the bill to President Joe Biden. The House voted 258-169-1 on the bill that would repeal the 1996 law k...

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Now that they’ve gained control of the House in the next Congress, Republican lawmakers will launch a slew of congressional inquiries into environmental, social and governance issues, according to legal and financial experts. The foremost t...

The Biden administration told a Washington federal court Wednesday that it will appeal a ruling that struck down pandemic-related asylum restrictions known as Title 42. The government, in a move that underscores the complicated legal and po...

Federal judges could soon demand their personal information be scrubbed from the internet, after negotiators included the provision in a must-pass defense policy bill released Tuesday. Backers of the judicial privacy measure — named for Dan...

Senators this week questioned whether a recently proposed bipartisan immigration deal can pass before the end of the year, with no legislative text available for lawmakers to review and limited floor time in the lame-duck period. Some lawma...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is running out of ways to be creative with its limited pandemic funds and needs more flexibility from Congress, Director Rochelle Walensky told CQ Roll Call in an exclusive interview Wednesday....

A majority of justices on the Supreme Court sounded skeptical at oral arguments Wednesday that state courts can’t review state rules for congressional elections, part of a dispute over North Carolina’s congressional map. Three Republican-ap...

Participants dressed in biblical attire appear with Delilah the camel in Faith & Liberty’s annual live Nativity scene outside the Supreme Court on Dec. 7, 2022. The event also featured a donkey, sheep, and actors portraying Mary and Joseph...

The newly released defense authorization bill for fiscal 2023 all but completes a decade-long campaign to overhaul the tradition-bound military justice system, advocates of the change say.  The measure achieves changes in areas where these...

Matthew Heineman is one of the pre-eminent documentary filmmakers working, and his movies have provided ground level views of the world not available to many: drug cartels in Mexico, journalists working in the Syrian civil war and COVID-19...

With Sen. Raphael Warnock having prevailed in Georgia’s Senate runoff election, for the first time in the history of the direct election of senators, no incumbents who sought reelection lost in either a primary or general election. And the...

When Elon Musk took over Twitter a few weeks back, the online vultures began to circle. Pundits signed up for competing platforms like Mastodon and Post, and then tweeted to ask their followers to join them. Online communities held imprompt...

Republicans who want to ban TikTok, the social media app owned by Chinese technology company ByteDance, from federal electronic devices may have missed their chance this Congress. Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., had hoped to attach his bill to proh...