Roll Call

One week remains on the official congressional schedule for 2020. As lawmakers look to head out of town for the holidays and adjourn the 116...

The House is poised to vote Friday on a stand-alone bill to decriminalize cannabis for the first time since President Richard Nixon imposed...

Protections for the greater sage grouse and language addressing the carbon neutrality of forest biomass have thrown a wrench into negotiatio...

It’s no secret that in the corridors of power there is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party. While Joe Biden won the presidency,...

As the country was shutting down in the early throes of the coronavirus pandemic, Georgia Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler joined Repub...

The House on Thursday passed a bill that could prevent the emergence of another “Tiger King.” Joe Exotic, the other nickname for “Tiger King...

The final agreement on the fiscal 2021 defense authorization bill includes a slate of provisions intended to bolster the military’s response...

Weeks after President Donald Trump said the Supreme Court should decide whether to throw out millions of ballots in what he dubbed a fraudul...

A House-Senate conference committee has finished work on a $731.6 billion defense authorization conference report that would authorize near-...

The Trump administration filed a lawsuit Thursday against Facebook, alleging the social media company discriminated against Americans by fav...

Rep. Gregory W. Meeks will make history next year by becoming the first Black lawmaker to lead the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He was e...

Georgia lawmaker David Scott won his campaign for chairman of the House Agriculture Committee on Thursday with a majority of House Democrats...

Rep. Jason Smith wants Republicans to be the party of “security” with an emphasis on the “working class” as he prepares to take the top GOP...

The Bureau of Land Management said Thursday it was pushing ahead to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska for oil and gas drill...

House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer told fellow Democrats on a conference call Thursday he wants an omnibus spending deal reached by midnig...

Rep.-elect Michelle Fischbach was one of nearly 20 new Republican women elected to the House in 2020, and one of a handful who flipped Democ...

The top House Republican said Thursday that his conference is eager to get a COVID-19 relief bill done, but he held firm that an approximate...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., conducts the ceremonial swearing-in of Rep. Kwanza Hall, D-Ga., in the Rayburn Room in the Capitol on Thursd...

The Senate made Christopher Waller the first Federal Reserve Board nominee to be confirmed during a lame duck session, in a tight 48-47 vote...

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Three-quarters of the 16-member House Democratic leadership team for the 117th Congress have served four or fewer terms and nearly half are...

A lone clap was briefly heard Thursday when California Rep.-elect Young Kim drew, virtually, the first choice of office space among her inco...

Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, has withdrawn her name from consideration to be Appropriations chairwoman in the 117th Congress ahead of a pivota...

The Senate Rules and Administration panel took a big step toward restoring a full slate at the Federal Election Commission, approving three...

House Democrats have chosen New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney to lead their campaign arm in 2022, and Maloney has his work cut out for him....