Roll Call

A recycling bin filled to the brim sits outside the office of departing Rep. Pete Visclosky, D-Ind., in the Rayburn House Office Building on...

The Federal Aviation Administration’s decision Wednesday to release the Boeing 737 Max from a 20-month grounding order will likely mean pass...

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said Wednesday he intends to assume the top spot on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in the nex...

Roy Blunt, chairman of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee, said Wednesday he wants to move this year to confirm three nominees to...

David Marchick, director of Center for Presidential Transition, has a traffic report for us: If the Trump administration doesn’t start doing...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi reaffirmed a pledge she made to her caucus two years ago that she would give up the gavel after the 117th Congress. Ahe...

The long leather-seated benches and armchairs around the fireplaces of the House Speaker’s Lobby have been cleared out in an effort to keep...

As President-elect Joe Biden’s administration begins to roll out its earliest hires and seek candidates for powerful jobs across the governm...

House Democrats elected Massachusetts Rep. Katherine M. Clark as assistant speaker on Wednesday, making her the second-highest ranking woman...

While the nation’s political eyes descend on Georgia, where two Senate races in January will decide which party will control the chamber, ad...

The addition of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court increases the likelihood that the justices could hear challenges related to a...

House Budget Chairman John Yarmuth will make a pitch to fellow Democrats as soon as Wednesday to scrap a Democratic caucus rule that limits...

Diane Rutherford had spent only six months in her new home at a memory care center in Chandler, Ariz., when the COVID-19 pandemic forced the...

Visitors to Washington could be forgiven for breezing past an empty pedestal tucked between two nondescript buildings near the Judiciary Squ...

The Senate Appropriations Committee, led by Alabama Republican Richard C. Shelby, added more than three quarters of a billion dollars to its...

A day after the House passed a bill aimed at tightening Federal Aviation Administration authority over aircraft manufacturers in the wake of...

House Democrats will have to beat the odds, and history, if they are to keep the majority in 2022.  Before they get there, they have to choo...

Christopher Krebs, the top U.S. cybersecurity official who helped oversee what outside experts have been calling one of the most secure U.S....

President-elect Joe Biden’s choice of Rep. Cedric L. Richmond to join his administration will leave House Democrats for several months with...

President-elect Joe Biden has poached his first member of Congress for his administration, Louisiana Democrat Cedric L. Richmond, who will b...

There was both jumping for joy and fiery exchanges in the early days of new member orientation for the freshman class of the 117th Congress,...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sought to steer a controversial nominee for the Federal Reserve through some Republican opposition an...

Senators from both parties and the chief executive officers of Facebook and Twitter all agreed at a hearing Tuesday that an embattled 1996 l...

After gaining significant ground and flipping several Democratic seats in the 2020 elections, House Republicans have chosen to reward their...

Lawmakers and staff are now able to get COVID-19 testing right inside the Capitol, but testing is voluntary, even for members who travel fro...