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Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., bats during the Congressional Women’s Softball Game at Audi Field on Wednesday night.

Thunder halts softball game, but lawmakers make it rain

By Hunter Savery
Posted July 16, 2025 at 10:25pm
Members of Congress bring it in before last year’s Congressional Women's Softball Game at Watkins Recreation Center, a community field outside an elementary school. This year, the charity event will move to Audi Field, the soccer stadium in Southwest Washington.

Congressional softball to make Audi Field debut

By Hunter Savery
Posted July 14, 2025 at 4:36pm
Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, is congratulated by Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., after a play in the first inning of the Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park on Wednesday.

Republicans extend winning streak at Congressional Baseball Game

By Hunter Savery
Posted June 11, 2025 at 11:04pm
Pete Aguilar takes some practice swings ahead of last year’s Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park. This year, Democrats hope to break the GOP’s winning streak in the charity game.

Underdog Dems look to snap congressional baseball drought

By Hunter Savery
Posted June 9, 2025 at 1:26pm
Lee Zeldin, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, talks with reporters after a water policy rule signing ceremony on Tuesday, February 18, 2025.

Lawmakers may reset the Congressional Review Act clock to reverse EPA waivers

By Hunter Savery
Posted May 7, 2025 at 7:12pm, Updated May 8, 2025 at 1:56pm
Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, D-N.Y., conducts a news conference with members of the Congressional Black Caucus during House Democrats' retreat at the Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, Va., on March 13.

House majority rules: When a ‘calendar day’ isn’t what it seems

By Hunter Savery and Daniel Hillburn
Posted March 18, 2025 at 10:02am
Bill text is slow to hit the internet, as lawmakers introduce a rising number of measures.

Publishing pileup: Congressional bills are slow to reach the public

By Hunter Savery
Posted March 5, 2025 at 5:05pm
Rep. Melanie Stansbury holds a sign reading “This is not normal” as President Donald Trump enters the House chamber on Tuesday night to deliver his address to a joint session of Congress.

‘Nothing I can say to make them happy’: Trump and Democrats face off during raucous speech

By Jim Saksa and Hunter Savery
Posted March 5, 2025 at 12:32am
“The Rules Committee has evolved,” says Jennifer Belair.

Top Rules Committee staffer heads to the private sector

By Hunter Savery
Posted January 28, 2025 at 12:00pm
Rep. Brian Babin supports Americans’ returning to the moon because the country will benefit “geopolitically, scientifically, economically and from a national security perspective.”

At House Science, Babin aims to boost commercial spaceflight

By Hunter Savery
Posted December 17, 2024 at 7:00am, Updated at 11:41am
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, talks with reporters after a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Roy, a vocal critic of spending deals, seeks Rules gavel

By Hunter Savery
Posted December 11, 2024 at 3:25pm
Texas Republican Reps. Michael C. Burgess, left, and Pete Sessions show off their temporary Lone Star State tattoos on March 1, 2023. Burgess, who is retiring at the end of this term, is the current chairman of the House Rules Committee and Sessions, who chaired the panel from 2013–2018, wants to reclaim the gavel.

Sessions throws hat in ring for encore performance at Rules

By Hunter Savery
Posted November 18, 2024 at 5:00am