Roll Call

The coronavirus pandemic sent candidates scrambling in the spring, trying to figure out how to campaign amid a global health crisis. For Rep...

Former Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley has usually been the only African American, female diplomat in the room. It’s a reflection, sh...

The Biden administration will take over the executive branch on Jan. 20, but the new president won’t have a Democratic majority on an indepe...

An end to the COVID-19 public health emergency would seem like good news for states. But state officials are dreading the end of that offici...

Internal documents released Wednesday by the House Oversight and Reform Committee show the Census Bureau has run into far more problems than...

Paid family leave on Capitol Hill has long been governed by a patchwork of policies depending on what office or department employees work fo...

The next few months of the COVID-19 pandemic will likely be the most difficult yet, warned Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Direct...

Sen. Mark Kelly took the oath of office Wednesday, following the path of Ohio’s John Glenn and others who once orbited the Earth and later l...

Jim Bendat has literally written the book on our Inauguration Day traditions and history. And one thing he is pretty confident of predicting...

It may fall on Congress to determine who has won the closest House race in 36 years. The race in Iowa’s 2nd District was decided by just six...

Adm. Michael M. Gilday, chief of naval operations, outlined the regions and military personnel that are prioritized to receive the COVID-19...

COVID-19 aid talks got a jolt of momentum Wednesday when the top Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill all but endorsed a $908 billion interim...

Actors portray Mary and Joseph during the annual “Live Nativity on Capitol Hill,” held by Faith & Liberty in the Nation’s Capital on Wednesd...

The defense authorization conference report for fiscal 2021 will defy a veto threat and require a change to the names of U.S. military bases...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gave a tearful farewell to retiring GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander on the Senate floor Wednesday morning. “...

The House Republican Steering Committee has recommended Rep. Mike D. Rogers, R-Ala., to be the next ranking member of the Armed Services Com...

The first session of the 117th Congress is set to feature an extra-long August recess for the House, with the chamber continuing the pandemi...

Sen. Lamar Alexander’s farewell speech to the chamber in which he’s served for 18 years — and was a staffer decades earlier — was a reminder...

The House Democratic Caucus is expected to back Georgia Rep. David Scott’s bid to become the next House Agriculture chairman — and the first...

’Tis the season for a tropical love story about a Hill staffer and the agonizing and politically fraught process of closing military bases,...

As if the rhetorical predictions weren’t already dire, Washington’s transit agency threw down a gauntlet when it released its fiscal 2022 bu...

Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has received scathing reactions from critics who worry that he might be tapped to serve as President-elect...

When you see the lights blaze to life on a gigantic tree, plucked from a national forest and deposited by crane in front of the Capitol, you...

Swearing off donations from corporate political action committees became all the rage among Democrats during the past two election cycles, b...

Former Atlanta City Council Member Kwanza Hall will serve briefly as Congressman Hall after defeating former Morehouse College President Rob...