and voters may soon be sending anti-love letters to their representatives in Congress. So it’s welcome news that even a few Republicans on Capitol Hill are registering at least some displeasure ...

There is a man talking on the Senate floor for 25 hours straight. There is a chamber of Congress shutting down because of a dispute about internal parental-leave policy. There are trillions in tax ...

Advocates are wondering what Congress could do next to flex its authority over the nation’s capital, after a scramble over unexpected budget cuts sent hundreds of locals and their kids to plead ...

introduced a bill requiring congressional approval for tariffs to continue for over 60 days of their implementation and for the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of announcing them.

WASHINGTON — The path to avert a government shutdown at the end of the week remains murky in the Republican-controlled Congress. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is eyeing a House vote Tuesday on a ...

Current and former members of Congress from both sides of the aisle mostly follow her advice, but those who ignore it often end up in embarrassing headlines: Marco Rubio teetering back to his tour ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday he believes there is a schism among Republicans in Congress over a proposed $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid that their leadership is pushing ...

AP For over 200 years, Congress has stood as a deliberative body, its members bound by tradition and constitutional duty to assemble in person to debate and vote on the laws that shape our nation.

But his advice can also apply to the state of Congress today. The three holes it has fallen into involve not living up to its basic constitutional roles of first exercising the powers of the purse ...

But Mr. Trump doesn’t need to wait to see if the Supreme Court reverses the district courts or Congress gets moving. While ordering the executive to spend appropriated money, the courts ...

On spending, oversight and other issues, Republican lawmakers have willingly ceded power traditionally reserved for Congress to the Trump White House. Credit...Eric Lee/The New York Times ...

President Donald Trump has urged the Republican-led Congress to pass a stopgap spending bill, but it’s unclear whether there will be sufficient votes this week in the House — and Democratic ...