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With his perfectly coiffed silver hair and toothy grin, former Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., looked like a stunt double for actor Peter Graves...

Earmarks attached to the housing spending bill would send $76.4 million to vulnerable Democratic districts, with the biggest sums secured by...

Former Rep. Mike Barnes, a Maryland Democrat, has been elevated to chairman of the board for the Office of Congressional Ethics, replacing f...

Senate Democrats agreed this week to work toward a $3.5 trillion reconciliation package, which would fund major programs President Joe Biden...

Two senior House Republican appropriators plan to file legislation Friday that would pay back the National Guard the nearly half-billion dol...

A Justice Department program that uses fines and penalties from criminal settlements to fund services for crime victims is on the verge of g...

House floor action on appropriations will begin the last week before the scheduled August recess with a $617 billion package combining seven...

A week before the Summer Olympics get underway, the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee are announcing plans for another hearing on th...

President Joe Biden recently told Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand that he would sign her bill revising how the military decides to prosecute most ma...

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez isn’t ready to commit to voting for a budget blueprint that will count on hundreds of billions of do...

Capitol Police arrested Congressional Black Caucus Chair Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, for participating in a voting rights demonstration in the Har...

Ed Gonzalez, the Texas sheriff tapped to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Thursday that he supports preserving cooperatio...

Congressional Republicans are attempting to tie the Biden administration to the argument, made by many progressives in the Democratic Party,...

Robert Santos, President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Census Bureau, pledged to keep the agency free from political interference at his conf...

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Patrice Campbell, a Black staffer for Democratic Rep. Brad Schneider of Illinois, is suing Schneider’s office, alleging that her supervisor,...

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Thursday he will file cloture on the legislative vehicle for the bipartisan infrastructure bi...

When the House Appropriations Committee takes up the fiscal 2022 Transportation-HUD spending bill Friday, it may help decide the fate of the...

Slavery, Jim Crow laws and COVID-19 all have contributed to a yawning gap between white public school students and students of color. While...

Senate Democrats are taking initial steps toward a major policy shift of enacting fees on imported goods from countries with weaker limits o...

The $3.5 trillion reconciliation agreement reached late Tuesday by Senate Democrats and the White House has renewed the debate over whether...

As Democrats tout the start Thursday of advance monthly payments of a tax credit for parents of children up to age 18, some advocates for ta...

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Millions of federal workers will soon have the option to direct their retirement savings to funds that incorporate environmental, social and...

Senate candidates who are raising lots of campaign cash aren’t waiting to spend it, early fundraising numbers show. A handful of Senate cand...