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Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., speaks during a House Freedom Caucus news conference in the Capitol on Thursday urging the Senate to act on the voter ID bill known as the SAVE America Act.

Congress

‘The Senate sucks’: Chambers clash over voter ID bill inaction

House vs. Senate tension boils over among Republicans

By Nina Heller and Savannah Behrmann
Posted June 25, 2026 at 1:53pm

President Donald Trump speaks in March before signing an executive order on election integrity in the Oval Office of the White House.

Policy

Judge blocks Trump order to restrict mail voting

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 25, 2026 at 12:44pm
The Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice, along with a coalition of faith-based organizations, hold a vigil before Supreme Court heard arguments in March on denying potential asylum seekers entry to the U.S.

Policy

Supreme Court allows policy to curtail asylum claims

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 25, 2026 at 11:34am
Roundup weed killer is seen in a Tractor Supply Company store in Denver, N.C. earlier this year. (Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Policy

Supreme Court sides with Monsanto over cancer warning

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 25, 2026 at 2:02pm

Campaigns

At the Races: Waiting on SCOTUS

By Mary Ellen McIntire and Daniela Altimari
Posted June 25, 2026 at 3:30pm

Capitol Lens | Jet setters

By Bill Clark
Posted June 25, 2026 at 3:38pm
Temporary Protected Status holders along with union leaders and advocates rally in April as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over a challenge to Trump administration decisions to terminate the TPS designations.

Supreme Court lets US end Haiti, Syria immigrant protections

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 25, 2026 at 12:49pm

Fly-In Strategy: What Advocacy Experts Say Still Works

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted May 6, 2026 at 5:56pm
The Supreme Court building is seen at sunset in Washington.

Supreme Court invalidates Hawaii gun possession law

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 25, 2026 at 11:19am

Capitol Ink | Sisyphean task

By R.J. Matson
Posted June 25, 2026 at 7:00am
Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., Norman said a budget blueprint may not be ready until July. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Timeline at risk for next GOP reconciliation package

By Aris Folley
Posted June 25, 2026 at 6:23am

2026 State of Government Affairs

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted February 4, 2026 at 12:15pm
President Donald Trump, flanked by Senate Republicans, speaks to reporters as he departs a lunch meeting in the Capitol on Wednesday.

No peace deal for Trump and GOP at Senate lunch

By Savannah Behrmann
Posted June 24, 2026 at 6:39pm
The logo of the prediction market online platform Polymarket is seen outside their new location called "The Situation Room" during its opening day in Washington on March 20, 2026. (Théo Marie-Courtois/AFP via Getty Images)

House panel advances partial prediction market ban

By Nina Heller
Posted June 24, 2026 at 6:21pm
From left, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Architect of the Capitol Thomas E. Austin, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Alex Padilla, D-Calif., unveil the Semiquincentennial Congressional Time Capsule during a ceremony in Emancipation Hall on Wednesday. The capsule will be sealed for 250 years until July 4, 2276.

‘They’ll know something about who we were’

By Nina Heller
Posted June 24, 2026 at 5:52pm

Read the latest issue

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 23, 2020 at 11:36am
Members of PETA hold signs calling for animal testing to be shut down as cars pass by approximately 3,000 other protesters showing their displeasure for President Trump's policies outside of Macomb Community College in Warren, Mich., on April 29, 2025.

RFK Jr.’s moves on animal testing spur Capitol Hill action

By Ariel Cohen
Posted June 24, 2026 at 5:21pm

Capitol Lens | Snap decision

By Bill Clark
Posted June 24, 2026 at 4:36pm
Manny Rutinel and Shannon Bird are facing off for the Democratic nomination to take on GOP Rep. Gabe Evans in Colorado's 8th District. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Battleground House primary in Colorado poses test for Democratic voters

By Daniela Altimari
Posted June 24, 2026 at 4:32pm
A presidential seal from the podium is packed away after President Trump canceled a housing bill signing event in National Statuary Hall in the Capitol on Wednesday.

Trump halts bipartisan victory lap on housing

By Savannah Behrmann
Posted June 24, 2026 at 12:02pm, Updated at 1:00pm
Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., attends a House Homeland Security Committee hearing last year.

Rep. LaMonica McIver urges appeals court to toss charges

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 24, 2026 at 12:25pm
Rep. Jeff Crank, seen here at a House Armed Services Committee markup last year, is serving his first term in Congress. But the Colorado Republican first worked at the Capitol back in the 1990s.

How Crank got a stack of political cartoons and a ‘great name’

By Jackie Wang
Posted June 24, 2026 at 12:00pm
House Financial Services Chairman French Hill, R-Ark., pictured with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters about the housing bill on May 15. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Housing bill cleared for Trump’s signature after winding journey

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Posted June 24, 2026 at 6:33am
Maryland Rep. April McClain Delaney prevailed in her Democratic primary on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

McClain Delaney defeats predecessor Trone in Maryland primary

By Mary Ellen McIntire and Daniela Altimari
Posted June 24, 2026 at 1:00am
New York Democrats Adriano Espaillat, left, and Dan Goldman are the latest House lawmakers to lose a primary this year.

Goldman, Espaillat lose New York primaries to Mamdani-backed challengers

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted June 23, 2026 at 11:58pm
Bill Pulte, acting director of national intelligence, pictured on Feb. 27, 2025, began work at his new position Friday.

Days into his new job, Pulte raises eyebrows in Senate

By Savannah Behrmann
Posted June 23, 2026 at 6:25pm
Cranes from the White House East Wing ballroom construction project are seen behind the Treasury Department building on June 7. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

Democrats seek probe of Secret Service disbursements

By Aris Folley
Posted June 23, 2026 at 6:00pm
Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, left, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, seen at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on June 2, were among four Republicans who backed the measure. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Senate joins House in calling for stop to US war on Iran

By John M. Donnelly
Posted June 23, 2026 at 5:13pm
Former California Rep. Jerry McNerney wasn't the DCCC's original choice when he ran for Congress in 2006. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

When parties take victory laps too soon

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted June 23, 2026 at 4:01pm
A beam of sunlight breaks through the cloudy skies to illuminate the Supreme Court in Washington.

Supreme Court backs US power to strip green cards

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 23, 2026 at 11:34am
Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., introduced the latest version of the Maj. Richard Star Act as an amendment to the fiscal 2027 defense authorization bill. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Stage set for House to take up major GOP veterans bill

By Rebecca Kheel
Posted June 23, 2026 at 6:05am
Senate Banking Chairman Tim Scott, R-S.C., and ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., reached rare bipartisan agreement on the housing package. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Bipartisan housing package OK’d in Senate; House up next

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Posted June 23, 2026 at 5:59am

At the Races: Big Apple dreams

By Mary Ellen McIntire and Daniela Altimari
Posted June 23, 2026 at 5:00am
Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., speaks during a subcommittee hearing on June 3.

Bipartisan changes made to kids’ internet safety bill

By Allison Mollenkamp
Posted June 22, 2026 at 4:18pm, Updated at 6:15pm
Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman who died Monday at the age of 100, is seen here testifying at a House Financial Services panel hearing in 2010.

Remembering Alan Greenspan

By Chris Hale
Posted June 22, 2026 at 3:28pm

Capitol Lens | Fountain dew

By Tom Williams
Posted June 22, 2026 at 2:15pm
Water from a fountain shoots in the air outside the Capitol. Summer in D.C. is often muggy, hot and filled with legislative angst.

This week: Lawmakers feel the summer sweat

By Valerie Yurk and Savannah Behrmann
Posted June 22, 2026 at 1:52pm
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