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President Donald Trump shows the signed bill to reopen the federal government in the Oval Office of the White House Wednesday night. Trump was joined by Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., other key congressional Republicans, administration officials and business leaders.

Congress

Trump signs spending bill to end longest government shutdown

Bill funds government through Jan. 30, reverses thousands of shutdown layoffs

By Aris Folley
Posted November 12, 2025 at 9:11pm, Updated at 10:33pm

Adelita Grijalva, seen here in October at the Capitol, signed the Epstein discharge petition as one of her first acts in office.

Congress

Epstein discharge petition picks up decisive signature in the House

By Justin Papp
Posted November 12, 2025 at 4:56pm, Updated at 7:50pm
Speaker Mike Johnson and Rep. Adelita Grijalva poses for pictures on Wednesday at her ceremonial swearing-in.

Congress

Adelita Grijalva sworn in nearly two months after her election to the House

By Noella Kertes
Posted November 12, 2025 at 4:09pm, Updated at 5:28pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is seen in the Capitol Monday after briefing the media on a timeline to possibly end the government shutdown.

Congress

House leaders seek repeal of Senate push for GOP payouts

By Aris Folley and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted November 12, 2025 at 5:08pm
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, left, and House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar are seen after a rally with fellow Democrats on Wednesday on the Capitol steps. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Campaigns

Democrats weathering redistricting storm with majority in sight

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted November 12, 2025 at 6:04pm
Then-Chairman Patrick J. Leahy speaks with Sen. Dianne Feinstein as Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in 2007 investigating the firing of several U.S. attorneys.

High-profile cases to test wording of US attorney law from 2007

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted November 12, 2025 at 4:53pm
A plane passes by the Capitol dome in Washington as it comes in for a landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Nov. 7.

Planes, trains and motorcycles: How House members got back to DC

By Nina Heller
Posted November 12, 2025 at 4:43pm

2026 State Legislative Sessions Calendar

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted October 3, 2025 at 10:26am
Jack Schlossberg, seen here speaking at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, is running for New York's 12th District.

JFK grandson Jack Schlossberg runs for open House seat in New York

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted November 12, 2025 at 4:12pm
President Donald Trump greets Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in the House chamber on March 4 after addressing a joint session of Congress. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Trump-Greene spat exposes friction on right over his second-term priorities

By John T. Bennett
Posted November 12, 2025 at 2:40pm
Michelle James, left, and Karen Swindler met through a Facebook group that James started for widows of those allegedly poisoned by toxic water at Camp Lejeune, including James’ late husband, Eric Holford.

An anxiety-filled Veterans Day for victims of Camp Lejeune water

By Mike Magner
Posted November 12, 2025 at 2:35pm

Track and shape policy faster than ever.

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted January 15, 2025 at 11:59am
Protesters march down Pennsylvania Avenue during an Oct. 18 “No Kings” protest in Washington, D.C.

Are Americans getting comfortable with the unimaginable?

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted November 12, 2025 at 2:00pm
Former Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., is making a comeback bid.

Former Rep. Elaine Luria makes comeback bid in Virginia

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted November 12, 2025 at 6:00am, Updated at 12:47pm
Former congressional aide Jordan Wood is running for Maine's 2nd District. (Courtesy Jordan Wood for Maine)

Maine Democrat Jordan Wood ends Senate bid to run for Golden’s seat

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted November 12, 2025 at 12:42pm

Read the latest issue

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 23, 2020 at 11:36am
Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., left, and Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., are among those Republicans with reservations. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Senate payouts unnerve some in House GOP ahead of shutdown vote

By David Lerman
Posted November 12, 2025 at 7:41am
Texas Rep. Jodey C. Arrington will not seek a sixth term next year. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington announces retirement

By Peter Cohn
Posted November 11, 2025 at 2:24pm
Ballots move through a tabulator machine at the Utah County Ballot Center in Provo on Nov. 5, 2024. (George Frey/Getty Images)

Utah judge selects new House map that could help Democrats flip a seat

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted November 11, 2025 at 12:10pm
A Delta Airlines Boeing 757-200 plane passes by the Capitol dome in Washington as it comes in for a landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Sunday.

Senate passes spending package in key step to end shutdown

By Aris Folley and Aidan Quigley
Posted November 10, 2025 at 9:29pm
New Hampshire Rep. Chris Pappas, who is running for Senate, says he doesn’t support the deal to end the partial government shutdown.

Democratic opposition to Senate deal runs party’s ideological gamut

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted November 10, 2025 at 5:12pm
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary.

FDA removes warning for hormone replacement therapy for menopause

By Ariel Cohen
Posted November 10, 2025 at 4:37pm
A sign on the facade of the Library of Congress is seen in Washington on May 21, 2025. (Wesley Lapointe/for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Copyright Office head asks Supreme Court to keep her in role

By Michael Macagnone
Posted November 10, 2025 at 4:35pm
A woman takes a bag of groceries during a free food distribution for recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program organized by the Volusia County Sheriff's Office and The Jewish Federation at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., on Sunday.

Appeals court rules Trump administration cannot avoid paying SNAP

By Michael Macagnone
Posted November 10, 2025 at 10:28am, Updated at 4:19pm
New Jersey Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman is not running for reelection.

New Jersey Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman won’t seek reelection in 2026

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted November 10, 2025 at 2:17pm
A worker stocks beef fillets in the meat section of a grocery store in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 25. Beef prices have climbed over the past 12 months, according to government data.

White House scrambles for affordability message amid still-high prices

By John T. Bennett
Posted November 10, 2025 at 1:26pm
Reps. Chrissy Houlahan, left, and Mikie Sherrill are among the female veterans who serve on the House Armed Services Committee. Their ranks will soon shrink as Sherrill assumes her new role of New Jersey governor next year.

For female veterans in Congress, it’s a small club 

By Nina Heller
Posted November 10, 2025 at 12:07pm
Workers erect scaffolding around the exterior of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington on Friday evening, April 4, 2025.

Supreme Court will hear case on post-Election Day ballot counting

By Michael Macagnone
Posted November 10, 2025 at 11:06am
An Architect of the Capitol worker picks up trash on the Capitol steps on May 22. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

GAO, Library of Congress avoid cuts in Legislative Branch bill

By Justin Papp
Posted November 10, 2025 at 6:11am
House Democrats, led by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, are expected to broadly oppose the Senate's deal that could end the shutdown.

This week: Shutdown could end as Senate spending deal prompts House to return

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted November 10, 2025 at 5:50am
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., is among the architects of the deal.

Deal to end government shutdown advances in Senate

By David Lerman
Posted November 9, 2025 at 9:38pm, Updated at 10:52pm
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has twice been ordered by a federal court to tap funds for food stamps that her department had said couldn't be used for the purpose. The administration on Friday appealed the latest order, but the department also said it would pay the benefits. Rollins appears here with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., at a news conference on Oct. 31.

Supreme Court stays lower court orders for USDA to pay November SNAP benefits

By Olivia M. Bridges
Posted November 7, 2025 at 7:15pm, Updated at 10:08pm
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., seen here at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Oct. 7, said there's "no way" Republicans would vote for the Democratic proposal to end the shutdown.

Republicans denounce new Democratic offer to end shutdown

By Sandhya Raman and Jessie Hellmann
Posted November 7, 2025 at 6:33pm, Updated at 7:01pm
President Donald Trump meets with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban during a bilateral lunch in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Friday.

‘Blocked, ruined, canceled’: Trump hosts Hungary’s Orban as shutdown rolls on

By John T. Bennett
Posted November 7, 2025 at 4:11pm
The empty Capitol Rotunda is seen on Nov. 3, 2025, The government shutdown became the longest in history this week.

VIN and bear it — Congressional Hits and Misses

By Chris Hale
Posted November 7, 2025 at 2:57pm
An Architect of the Capitol worker lowers the flag over the Capitol to half-staff on Tuesday in honor of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who died on Monday at age 84. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | October 31-November 6, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted November 7, 2025 at 8:55am
New York Rep. Elise Stefanik is running for governor. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Rep. Elise Stefanik launches long-anticipated bid for New York governor

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted November 7, 2025 at 6:53am

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