Roll Call

For just the second time in recent memory, D.C. statehood is getting a hearing in the Senate — and Joe Lieberman is right in the middle of i...

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, center; ANC 7B Chairperson Tiffany L. Brown, third from left; Ward 7 Councilman Vincent Gray, third from right; Wa...

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that college athletes can get more education-related benefits, such as computers or paid internsh...

ANALYSIS — The easiest column to write would be one that says President Joe Biden went to Europe with a message for the world that America i...

ANALYSIS — The slim Democratic majorities that stuck together during the first winter and spring of Joe Biden’s presidency are moving apart...

“It feels damn good to be back,” said Rep. Jim McGovern at the start of the first in-person House Rules Committee hearing in more than a yea...

Senate Democrats are preparing to draft a fiscal 2022 budget resolution with up to $6 trillion in reconciliation spending during the next de...

Former President Donald Trump on Friday officially backed Kelly Tshibaka, a Republican challenging GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a frequent Trump...

Hours before President Joe Biden signed legislation making Juneteenth a federal holiday, advocates seeking humanitarian protections for undo...

This week saw the return of press conferences in the Ohio Clock Corridor and the (mostly) annual National Seeksucker Day celebration, kickin...

The Senate overwhelmingly voted Thursday to confirm Tommy Beaudreau, an energy lawyer with a wide array of former fossil and renewable energ...

House Ways and Means Committee Republicans clashed with Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen on Thursday over President Joe Biden’s tax propos...

It took 30 months for news of the Emancipation Proclamation to reach the slaves in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865. It took less than hal...

Democratic lawmakers and much of the health care industry cheered the Supreme Court’s ruling Thursday to uphold the 2010 health care law. De...

Congressional staffers carry National Seersucker Day cutouts into the Ohio Clock Corridor for the annual seersucker photo in the Capitol on...

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In a strong bipartisan vote on Thursday, the House voted to repeal the military authorization for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 in w...

A massive filibuster-proof budget reconciliation package worth as much as $6 trillion over a decade — of which half could be deficit-finance...

The 2010 health care law survived its third major Supreme Court challenge Thursday, in a ruling that found that the coalition of Republican-...

Republican senators are expressing mounting impatience with the federal mask mandate for travelers, arguing that the lifting of restrictions...

Even as the U.S. will likely have a federal holiday to mark June 19th or Juneteenth — an important date not a part of many history books — b...

When Cynthia Garcia took her father to get his COVID-19 vaccination, he was turned away. A 59-year-old diabetic, Cynthia’s dad qualified for...

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In the land of bold, well-tailored power suits as temperatures climb, some lawmakers will stand alone — in cool, comfortable and slightly wr...

Juneteenth has always been a jubilee — a celebration of emancipation, a forgiveness of national sins. Soon, it will be a federal holiday as...