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President Donald Trump greets Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. as he arrives to deliver an address to a joint session of Congress in March.

Congress

Trump’s speedy appeals put Supreme Court on tricky path

Justices facing issues of presidential power on top of regular docket

By Michael Macagnone
Posted May 14, 2025 at 4:49pm

Nebraska Rep. Adrian Smith says the school voucher proposal "fits well within the purview of reconciliation." (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Congress

School choice proponents cheer voucher proposal in budget reconciliation bill

By Daniela Altimari
Posted May 14, 2025 at 6:24pm
Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., is a former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and a current member of House Democrats’ whip team.

Heard on the Hill

Rep. Steven Horsford on tourism, trade wars and taking on Trump

By Jim Saksa
Posted May 14, 2025 at 4:31pm
Michigan Rep. Shri Thanedar backed off his push for an impeachment vote Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Congress

Trump impeachment effort pulled moments before House vote

By Victor Feldman
Posted May 14, 2025 at 7:00pm
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries used a procedural maneuver on the floor Wednesday to call attention to an overdue plaque honoring police who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Heard on the Hill

‘It’s time’: Jeffries urges placement of Jan. 6 plaque during police week

By Justin Papp
Posted May 14, 2025 at 5:59pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, seen here arriving for a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Wednesday, publicly threw his weight behind a push to ban congressional stock trading.

Speaker Johnson backs congressional stock ban, cites ‘a few bad actors’

By Justin Papp
Posted May 14, 2025 at 1:43pm, Updated at 7:37pm
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., arrives to testify Wednesday at the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing.

Kennedy defends budget request but is silent on big HHS changes

By Sandhya Raman and Lia DeGroot
Posted May 14, 2025 at 5:21pm

Securing American Battery Technologies

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted May 6, 2025 at 3:08pm
Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., center, opens the House Ways and Means Committee markup of the budget reconciliation bill on Tuesday. Smith is flanked by Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., left, and ranking member Richard E. Neal, D-Mass.

How much SALT is enough?

By David Winston
Posted May 14, 2025 at 5:05pm

Capitol Lens | Running time

By Bill Clark
Posted May 14, 2025 at 3:57pm
Runners make their way to the starting line of the ACLI Capital Challenge 3-mile race in Anacostia Park on Wednesday.

A run in the (Anacostia) park

By Jason Dick
Posted May 14, 2025 at 3:27pm

Track and shape policy faster than ever.

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted January 15, 2025 at 11:59am
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, talks with reporters after a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the Capitol on April 8.

Reconciliation text includes big boosts to immigration fees

By Chris Johnson
Posted May 14, 2025 at 2:36pm
A congressional staffer sets up a poster on stage for Texas Republican Rep. Brian Babin’s news conference on the bill dubbed the Birthright Citizenship Act in the Capitol on Jan. 23. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Supreme Court to hear oral arguments over birthright citizenship

By Michael Macagnone
Posted May 14, 2025 at 12:32pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., is seen in the Capitol on May 8.

Schumer announces holds on Justice Department nominees

By Nina Heller
Posted May 14, 2025 at 11:19am

Read the latest issue

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 23, 2020 at 11:36am
President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attend a signing ceremony at the Saudi Royal Court on Tuesday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Palestinians face stark uncertainty as Trump tours Middle East

By Rachel Oswald
Posted May 14, 2025 at 11:07am
Speaker Mike Johnson, seen here in April, was slow to appoint members to the Office of Congressional Conduct, compared to previous House leaders.

After delay, Johnson appoints ethics watchdog board members

By Justin Papp
Posted May 13, 2025 at 5:26pm, Updated at 8:06pm
The Library of Congress’ Thomas Jefferson Building is seen from the observation area at the top of Capitol Dome. A power struggle at the library has become an unexpected focal point for questions of legislative branch authority.

As Library of Congress crisis deepens, lawmakers tread carefully

By Justin Papp
Posted May 13, 2025 at 7:36pm
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testifies before a House Appropriations subcommittee earlier this month.

States challenge immigration cooperation requirements for grants

By Chris Johnson
Posted May 13, 2025 at 4:59pm
Iowa Rep. Randy Feenstra is exploring a run for governor. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Republican Rep. Randy Feenstra exploring run for Iowa governor

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted May 13, 2025 at 4:55am, Updated at 4:55pm

Capitol Lens | Markup interuptus

By Tom Williams
Posted May 13, 2025 at 4:01pm
Then-Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and then-Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., the vice chairman, hold a media availability following the committee's closed hearing into the attempted Times Square bomb attack on Tuesday, May 11, 2010.

Four-term former Missouri Sen. Christopher Bond dead at 86

By Jackie Wang
Posted May 13, 2025 at 3:57pm

Capitol Ink | Sure shot

By R.J. Matson
Posted May 13, 2025 at 7:00am
Wisconsin Rep. Bryan Steil's 1st District seat could become more competitive under a new map.

Challenge to Wisconsin map adds latest wrinkle to 2026 House fight

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted May 12, 2025 at 7:32pm
Donald Trump appears with Todd Blanche, then part of his personal legal team, outside Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan on May 29, 2024.

Trump taps Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as acting head of Library of Congress

By Justin Papp
Posted May 12, 2025 at 12:50pm, Updated at 7:16pm
Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King, here at a campaign rally in 2022, is running for Senate.

GOP race to take on Sen. Jon Ossoff heats up in Georgia

By Victor Feldman
Posted May 12, 2025 at 6:03pm
An image of President Donald Trump, marking his first 100 days in office, is seen on the Heritage Foundation, next to an Exxon station, on Capitol Hill on May 5. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Trump pivots from populist economic campaign ideas

By John T. Bennett
Posted May 12, 2025 at 4:57pm
President Donald Trump takes the oath of office in the Capitol on Jan. 20. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)

Trump is running for reelection (right now)

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted May 12, 2025 at 4:13pm
Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, arrives for the start of a House Appropriations Committee markup last July.

Rep. Henry Cuellar seeks to dismiss bribery indictment

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 12, 2025 at 3:48pm

Capitol Lens | A K-9 shrine

By Tom Williams
Posted May 12, 2025 at 3:20pm
House Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., arrives to a meeting with Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and House and Senate Republicans in the Capitol Visitor Center about President-elect Donald Trump's "Department of Government Efficiency," on Dec. 5, 2024.

Most controversial Medicaid cuts left out of reconciliation text

By Jessie Hellmann, Sandhya Raman and Lia DeGroot
Posted May 12, 2025 at 2:55pm
Chairman Ted Cruz and ranking member Maria Cantwell arrive at a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on April 2.

Reconciliation would auction 600 megahertz of federal spectrum

By Jacob Fulton
Posted May 12, 2025 at 1:42pm
House Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., plans to begin markup of the panel's reconciliation text Tuesday.

Reconciliation text would rescind energy, environment funding

By David Jordan
Posted May 12, 2025 at 1:21pm
President Donald Trump is seen on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One en route to the Middle East on Monday.

Trump signs order to level US drug prices with other countries

By Lia DeGroot
Posted May 12, 2025 at 1:11pm
House Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., released the text of his committee's reconciliation package on Sunday night. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

This week: Top three House reconciliation markups take center stage

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted May 12, 2025 at 6:35am

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