Republicans don’t seem to have any priorities beyond populist stunts.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is speeding toward a vote next week on releasing files related to the sex trafficking ...

Congress has played an important role in holding federal agencies accountable since the late 1700s, but oversight can also ...

A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service relating to "Record of ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Former Vice President Mike Pence (R) and former Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel (D), both former members of the U.S. House of Representatives, joined C ...

It's day 24 of the government shutdown and employees are now working without a paycheck. However, Congress did get paid but not at the Capital today. President Trump leaves for a five day trip to Asia ...

We explain what elected officials aren’t doing during the government shutdown. By Carl Hulse I’m The Times’s chief Washington correspondent. By almost any measure, Congress is failing. And flailing.

Stephen Vladeck makes some fine points in his Oct. 16 letter, “The Roberts Court and the Imperial President.” Yet it was neither the judiciary nor the executive that made the legislative branch ...

Republicans praised Johnson’s work on the short-term spending deal the House passed in September, while Democratic callers asked him why the GOP isn’t working with Democrats to negotiate and reopen ...

It might be time to add C-SPAN to the old-fashioned saying, “As American as baseball and apple pie.” That’s because the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, the bipartisan commission charged with ...