Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Now that the U.S. House finally has a speaker, the 118 th Congress can get down to ...

A Lubbock, Texas, federal judge ruled Tuesday that lawmakers unconstitutionally passed the $1.7 trillion government funding bill in 2022 when they did so under a pandemic-era rule allowing members of ...

A year after setting a record for vote participation, thanks largely to a pandemic-driven House rule allowing members to delegate someone else to vote for them, Congress kept up the pace in 2022 — ...

WASHINGTON – House and Senate lawmakers unveiled their revised annual national defense policy and spending bill late Tuesday, going $45 billion above the Biden administration’s initial ask from March.

NOTE: Numbers on this page are based on expenditures reported by candidates, parties, PACs and outside spending groups for the 2021-2022 election cycle, based on Federal Election Commission data ...

Nineteen veterans will begin roaming the halls of Congress next week, contributing to one of the biggest classes of lawmakers who served in the military in recent years. The 118th Congress' cohort of ...

Advocates lobbying Congress to pass the Afghan Adjustment Act gather on Capitol Hill on Dec. 20. (Leo Shane III/Staff) Advocates pushing for Congress to help Afghan refugees with new immigration ...

2022 was perhaps the single most pivotal year for semiconductor policy in U.S. history. Seventy-five years after the invention of the transistor, that tiny piece of silicon enabling all modern ...