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The Peace Monument in Peace Circle is pictured as pro-Trump rioters take over the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021.

For one reporter, Jan. 6 evokes sad memories of a precious place

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted January 6, 2026 at 5:50am
Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, sports a Donald Trump tie outside the Capitol on June 27, 2024.

Nehls announces retirement; his twin will seek the seat

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted November 29, 2025 at 2:28pm, Updated at 3:09pm
From left, Reps. John Katko, R-N.Y., Darren Soto, D-Fla., and Haley Stevens, D-Mich., take a picture before The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 bill signing on the South Lawn of the White House, on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022.

Life after Congress: How John Katko got a PBS show

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted November 18, 2025 at 6:00am
Former Rep. Ryan Costello, R-Pa., leaves the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Feb. 27, 2018.

Life after Congress: Ryan Costello’s core memories include shutdowns, redistricting

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted November 4, 2025 at 6:00am
Rep. Rodney Davis is seen at a 2022 hearing at the Capitol. The Republican lost his primary that year to Rep. Mary Miller after redistricting in Illinois.

Life after Congress: Rodney Davis’ off-ramp includes solutions and a shorkie

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted October 21, 2025 at 6:00am
Rep. Brad Wenstrup, center, is congratulated by Rep. August Pfluger, after Wenstrup played in his last Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park on June 12, 2024.

Life after Congress: Wenstrup’s return to Ohio brings journey full circle

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted October 9, 2025 at 6:00am
Then-Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., center, poses with tourists on the House steps before she leaves the Capitol on May 24, 2018.

Life after Congress: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen recalls her career as ‘a delight’

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted September 23, 2025 at 6:30am
A close-up photo of the late Ohio Rep. Mary Rose Oakar from April 1992.

Mary Rose Oakar, the first Arab American woman in Congress, dies at 85

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted September 17, 2025 at 3:54pm
Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, D-Ore., arrives for a news conference on June 30, 2021.

Life after Congress: Peter DeFazio is still on the move

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted September 16, 2025 at 7:00am
Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, left, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., conduct a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024.

Texas Rep. Michael McCaul will not seek reelection in 2026

By Jessica Wehrman and Rachel Oswald
Posted September 14, 2025 at 11:51am, Updated September 15, 2025 at 3:00pm
Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated Wednesday, is shown in the Fiserv Forum on the third night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July 2024.

Lawmakers react to assassination of Charlie Kirk

By Nina Heller and Jessica Wehrman
Posted September 10, 2025 at 6:02pm
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, seen here in 2017 talking to a group of students at the Capitol, is among the former members of Congress to be profiled in Roll Call's Life After Congress feature.

They seem fine: Life after Congress

By Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman
Posted September 10, 2025 at 1:07pm
Then-Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., waits to board a bus taking him and other House Democrats to the White House for the signing of the health care bill on March 23, 2010.

Life after Congress: Earl Pomeroy has no regrets about his career-defining vote

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted September 9, 2025 at 6:00am
Rep. John L. Burton, D-Calif., seen in an undated photo.

Former congressman who later managed Pelosi’s campaign dead at 92

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted September 8, 2025 at 1:12pm
Rep. Glenn Poshard, D-Ill., is pictures in May 1991. (Jamie Howren/CQ Roll Call)

Life after Congress: Glenn Poshard

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted September 4, 2025 at 7:00am
Activists with Shut Down DC hold a protest outside of the EPA headquarters in Washington on Thursday to rename it as the Environmental Pollution Agency.

How Democrats hope to flip the script on energy as a campaign issue

By Jessica Wehrman and David Jordan
Posted August 7, 2025 at 3:11pm
Clockwise from top: Former Rep. Brad Wenstrup, former Sen. Sherrod Brown, and former Reps. Debbie Lesko, Derek Kilmer, Jamaal Bowman, Mike Garcia, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and Cori Bush talk about their activities after leaving Congress.

Where are they now? Happily, often anyplace but here

By Mike Magner, Nina Heller, Jackie Wang, Noella Kertes, Nick Eskow and Jessica Wehrman
Posted July 31, 2025 at 5:00am
President Donald Trump holds up the “GENIUS Act” alongside Speaker Mike Johnson and other congressional Republicans after signing the bill into law during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on July 18.

Six months into Trump 2.0, GOP exudes ‘extreme confidence’

By Jessica Wehrman and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted July 22, 2025 at 4:21pm
Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans give a thumbs-up during the enrollment ceremony of the budget reconciliation bill in the Capitol after passage on July 3.

Far from the people it will impact, a big, beautiful circus on Capitol Hill

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted July 7, 2025 at 3:29pm
Rep. Earl L. "Buddy" Carter, R-Ga., arrives for a meeting of House Republicans in the Capitol Visitor Center on May 15. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Rep. Carter, seeking Georgia Senate seat, surrenders Health gavel

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted July 2, 2025 at 2:38pm
U.S. Capitol Police arrest protesting members of American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday. The protesters chanted “no cuts to Medicaid” while being arrested.

A short history of hoping people will change their minds

By Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman
Posted June 25, 2025 at 4:16pm
Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La., in August 1988.

Louisiana’s former Sen. J. Bennett Johnston dead at 92

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted March 26, 2025 at 4:19pm
Materials from this year’s Gridiron dinner, a tradition that dates to 1885.

At the Gridiron, laughter in the dark

By Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman
Posted March 19, 2025 at 6:36pm
Healthcare workers wait between appointments at a COVID-19 drive-thru testing facility at George Washington University on May 5, 2020.

A look back at the coronavirus lockdown

By Jessica Wehrman and Bill Clark
Posted March 13, 2025 at 6:00am
Former Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., flanked by former Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., and former Sen. Mitt Romney, appears at a 2008 press conference.

Former Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart dead at 70

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted March 3, 2025 at 5:00pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has largely stuck to his plan to consistently confirm executive nominees and has plans to take the lead on the budget process if the House cannot forge a path.

Having a plan beats not having a plan

By Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman
Posted February 6, 2025 at 3:14pm
Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa, poses in front of Grant Wood's "American Gothic" at the Renwick Museum in Washington in 2006. Wood painted much in Leach's district. Leach, who died Dec. 11, went on to head the National Endowment for the Humanities after leaving Congress.

Former Rep. Jim Leach, Iowa iconoclast, dies at 82

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted December 16, 2024 at 5:02pm
A person smokes marijuana during a 420 celebration at Washington Square Park in New York on April 20, 2024.

Voters largely reject marijuana initiatives

By Jessie Hellmann and Jessica Wehrman
Posted November 6, 2024 at 10:48am
Rep. David L. Hobson, R-Ohio, sits in the House Energy-Water Appropriations Subcommittee hearing room on June 9, 2006.

Former Rep. David Hobson, longtime appropriator, is dead at 87

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted October 7, 2024 at 2:39pm, Updated at 4:25pm
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, is pictured with his running mate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, right, in the Fiserv Forum on the second day of Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 16.

Ohio, the [political] heart of it all

By Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman
Posted August 1, 2024 at 1:08pm
Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, is seen outside a House Republican Conference meeting in the Longworth Building on Oct. 24.

Rep. Brad Wenstrup to retire

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted November 9, 2023 at 8:55pm
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, battled against House GOP leadership but now is vying to be speaker.

As speaker, ‘fire-breather’ Jordan would have to become deal-maker

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted October 6, 2023 at 2:23pm
Runners take off from the starting line during the ACLI Capital Challenge 3-mile race in Anacostia Park on Wednesday, May 17, 2023.

The Capital Challenge race, explained

By Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman
Posted May 19, 2023 at 9:30am
Rep. Abigail Spanberger, right, and Sen. Mark Warner, both D-Va., meet with reporters following a Prince William County early voting rally for Spanberger in Woodbridge, Va., on Sept. 24. Spanberger won a competitive reelection race Tuesday.

How vulnerable House incumbents fared in the 2022 midterms

By Laura Weiss, Jessica Wehrman, Jim Saksa, Aidan Quigley, Mary Ellen McIntire, Paul V. Fontelo, Ariel Cohen, Daniela Altimari and Kate Ackley
Posted November 8, 2022 at 11:18pm, Updated November 23, 2022 at 8:20pm
Former Rep. Norman Mineta, D-Calif, hugs his son Stuart during the unveiling of his portrait in 1995.

Norm Mineta, who went from incarceration camp to two Cabinet agencies, dead at 90

By Jessica Wehrman and Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted May 3, 2022 at 8:22pm
Former President Donald Trump listens as Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance speaks during a rally on April 23 in Delaware, Ohio.

What to watch in Tuesday’s primaries in Ohio and Indiana

By Stephanie Akin and Jessica Wehrman
Posted May 2, 2022 at 6:00am
Trucks fuel up at the Love's Truck Stop in Springville, Utah, on Dec. 1, 2021.

Truckers hope bill brings long-sought overtime pay to their field

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted April 26, 2022 at 5:00am
Masked and unmasked passengers make their way through Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday. The CDC said Wednesday it asked the Justice Department to appeal a federal judge's ruling striking down the mask mandate on airplanes and other public transportation.

CDC aims to appeal mask mandate ruling

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted April 20, 2022 at 8:02pm
Commuters wearing masks travel on the Washington Metro on April 14.

Federal judge overturns travel mask mandate

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted April 18, 2022 at 5:25pm, Updated April 19, 2022 at 12:58pm
Amtrak's California Zephyr passenger train departs Chicago Union Station on March 2, 2022.

Better watch your speed, watchdog and others tell a flush Amtrak

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted April 18, 2022 at 6:00am
The House last week passed a bill to require all transportation modes to establish policies and training structures on sexual assault and harassment.

Infrastructure law demands new focus on transit worker assaults

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted April 5, 2022 at 6:30am
An Amtrak train pulls out of Union Station. in Washington.

Watchdog: Managing infrastructure money presents challenge for Amtrak

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted April 4, 2022 at 7:14pm
Pelosi speaks to reporters in the Capitol on Thursday. She said rebate cards or direct payments are being considered to help offset higher fuel costs.

Pelosi dismisses gas tax hiatus, says consumers wouldn’t benefit

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted March 31, 2022 at 3:59pm
Rep. Virginia Foxx says the bill “misses the mark and takes away important oversight in federal workers compensation programs.”

Longshoremen seek workers’ comp law change for COVID-19 coverage

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted March 24, 2022 at 6:00am
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., sponsored the resolution aimed at overturning a federal requirement that passengers on U.S. airplanes and other modes of public transportation wear masks.

Senate votes to overturn mask mandate on airplanes, transit

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted March 15, 2022 at 8:52pm
Airline passengers wearing face masks at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.

Airline, transit mask mandates extended through April 18

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted March 10, 2022 at 2:08pm
Supporters wave signs as motorcoach buses pass by the U.S. Capitol during a 2020 rolling rally on federal assistance for the bus industry.

Still struggling motor coach industry seeks more federal aid

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted March 8, 2022 at 10:30am
Heavy-duty vehicles such as buses and trucks make up nearly one-quarter of all U.S. transportation greenhouse gas emissions, according to the administration.

White House unveils steps to clean up trucks, buses

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted March 7, 2022 at 4:18pm
Cars and trucks are directed into the right lane on Interstate 78 in Greenwich Township, Pa., on April 27, 2021. Federal highway law requires states to set data-driven safety goals.

In infrastructure law, a stronger emphasis on highway safety

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted March 1, 2022 at 10:00am
Passenger rail advocates want to revive the Amtrak line between Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans that was shut down after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Amtrak wants to restore Gulf line; freight rail not on board

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted February 24, 2022 at 10:00am
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., was a key supporter of the bipartisan infrastructure law.

Capito leads GOP letter urging change to road-spending guidance

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted February 18, 2022 at 11:49am
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called the tax proposal "half-baked." Above, gas prices at an Exxon station on Capitol Hill in March 2021.

Bill to suspend gas tax is panned by transport groups

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted February 17, 2022 at 2:01pm
A Union Pacific freight train passes the railroad crossing in Nipton, Calif., on Aug. 30, 2019.

Freight rail bucks Biden’s plea to share cargo

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted February 17, 2022 at 11:30am
Passengers go through security screening at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Lawmakers at odds on how to handle guns at airport checkpoints

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted February 16, 2022 at 9:00am
A worker uses an asphalt roller to pave Maryland Avenue Northeast in Capitol Hill on Oct. 4, 2021.

What’s happening with infrastructure spending?

By David Lerman, Jessica Wehrman, Peter Cohn and Evan Campbell
Posted February 11, 2022 at 11:41am
Roads and other projects approved in the bipartisan infrastrcture law remain on hold until Congress passes a spending bill.

Even with spending framework, infrastructure delays loom

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted February 10, 2022 at 10:50am
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., is concerned about a Federal Highway Administration memo that she says outlines policies contradicting those negotiated in the bipartisan infrastructure law.

Republicans: Biden forcing ‘woke’ agenda in infrastructure law

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted February 9, 2022 at 2:35pm
Amtrak passengers walk through Union Station in Washington on June 1, 2021.

Amtrak IG: Gateway project needs better management planning

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted February 8, 2022 at 3:28pm
A contractor installs 5G cellular equipment on a light pole near Los Angeles International Airport on Jan. 19.

‘It’s embarrassing’: FCC-FAA skirmish over 5G leads to lawmaker frustration

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted February 4, 2022 at 7:28am
Supporters arrive at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, for the Freedom Truck Convoy to protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions. By Tuesday, the Canadian truckers were blockading the capital and a U.S. border crossing.

Unvaccinated truckers find roadblocks at Canada-US border

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted February 1, 2022 at 3:26pm
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, seen with an electric car in 2021, was releasing a department report with a new highway safety strategy to be paid for in part by the bipartisan infrastructure law.

DOT vows ‘paradigm shift’ in new roadway safety standards

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted January 27, 2022 at 9:00am, Updated at 12:14pm
Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., said he won't seek reelection this year.

Norton, Larsen line up to replace DeFazio on House transportation panel

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted January 25, 2022 at 2:15pm
If Joe Biden has achieved anything, say analysts watching his presidency, it’s passage of the bipartisan infrastructure law.

After a true infrastructure year, focus turns to implementation

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted January 25, 2022 at 2:00pm
Airlines and the FAA worry that new 5G services from wireless companies could affect aircraft radar.

AT&T and Verizon delay 5G deployment near some airports

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted January 18, 2022 at 2:04pm, Updated at 6:27pm
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced the first batch of funding in Philadelphia.

Administration announces $27 billion in bridge projects

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted January 14, 2022 at 11:43am
Rep. David E. Price chairs the House Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Subcommittee.

Temporary spending bill would delay big infrastructure plans

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted January 12, 2022 at 8:10am
House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter A. DeFazio, D-Ore., said the FCC sided with telecommunications over safety.

Demand for spectrum pits FCC against other agencies

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted January 10, 2022 at 3:43pm

Airlines, wireless companies announce deal on 5G deployment

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted January 4, 2022 at 9:00am
A Southwest Airlines flight departs Atlanta.

Aviation, wireless industries say they’ll cooperate on 5G solution

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted December 22, 2021 at 3:49pm
Automakers have been counting on provisions in Democrats' budget reconciliation package that would support electric vehicle charging infrastructure to help them meet the new emissions standards.

EPA finalizes tougher vehicle emission standards

By Joseph Morton, Jessica Wehrman and Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted December 20, 2021 at 3:21pm
Steven Cliff, nominee to be administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, testifies during his confirmation hearing on Thursday.

Highway safety nominee faces grilling over driverless vehicles

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted December 16, 2021 at 6:10pm
A truck travels along I-95 at Oxon Hill, Md.

Biden administration to announce plans to recruit truck drivers

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted December 16, 2021 at 5:00am
Airline crew members at Dulles International Airport.

Airline executives defend use of payroll support amid pandemic

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted December 15, 2021 at 7:22pm
A TSA official checks in passengers at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in 2016.

TSA: More passengers bringing anger and loaded guns to airports

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted December 13, 2021 at 7:00pm
Trucks hauling shipping containers at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, California, in November.

Trucker shortage? It’s a point of debate amid supply chain jam

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted December 8, 2021 at 12:28pm
Reporters question Rep. Peter DeFazio, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, in September. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and Rep. Rick Larsen are seeking to succeed DeFazio as the panel's top Democrat.

Norton, Larsen bid for top Democratic spot on Transportation Committee

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted December 2, 2021 at 4:24pm
Family members of drunken driving victims hold pictures of their loved ones during a Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) rally in Upper Senate Park in 2012.

Infrastructure law has a mandate for tech to stop drunken drivers

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted December 2, 2021 at 7:00am
Oregona Rep. Peter A. DeFazio is not running for reelection next year.

DeFazio joins Democrats heading for exits in 2022

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted December 1, 2021 at 2:06pm, Updated at 5:17pm
A bipartisan group of lawmakers are hoping to attach their draft bill, which would establish a national database aimed at streamlining the U.S. supply chain, to the National Defense Authorization Act.

Bill would create database to address supply chain crisis

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted December 1, 2021 at 11:46am
Shipping containers sit stacked in California last month.

Supply chain logjam: Where logistics and politics collide

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted November 16, 2021 at 1:52pm
President Joe Biden, flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris and lawmakers, signs the infrastructure bill on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday evening.

In implementing infrastructure law, Biden turns to two former mayors for help

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted November 16, 2021 at 5:45am
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, here at the U.S. Conference of Mayors in 2020, is in a position to pursue his wonky infrastructure agenda. How he got to Washington is a story told in the forthcoming “Mayor Pete” documentary.

Infrastructure Week: No longer a punchline

By Jason Dick, Jessica Wehrman and Evan Campbell
Posted November 11, 2021 at 12:19pm
President Joe Biden is scheduled to sign the bipartisan infrastructure bill on Monday.

Biden’s challenge: Getting infrastructure up and running

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted November 11, 2021 at 7:00am
From left, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,and House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., turn away from the cameras after announcing their plans to move forward with the infrastructure and larger spending bill.

House sends infrastructure bill to Biden without budget vote

By Jessica Wehrman, Lindsey McPherson and Joseph Morton
Posted November 5, 2021 at 11:35pm
Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal speaks with reporters on the Build Back Better Act and the infrastructure bill outside the Capitol on Friday.

House votes Friday on infrastructure, budget bill rule in doubt

By Jessica Wehrman, Suzanne Monyak and Joseph Morton
Posted November 5, 2021 at 11:07am, Updated at 6:13pm
A detour sign stands at a road construction site on New Jersey Avenue Northwest in Washington in May.

House, Senate disagree over namesake for DOT headquarters

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted November 5, 2021 at 9:44am
The latest version of the reconciliation bill reduces port infrastructure grants from $2.5 billion to $600 million — a move that may be controversial during the ongoing supply chain logjam.

Revised budget bill cuts more than $10 billion in transportation funds

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted November 1, 2021 at 12:15pm
Speaker Nancy Pelosi had hoped for an infrastructure vote Thursday.

House punts on infrastructure, passes highway bill extension

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted October 28, 2021 at 8:30pm
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says he’s disappointed drug price negotiation provisions were left out of the reconciliation framework.

Infrastructure vote looks shaky as progressives balk, again

By Lauren Clason, Jennifer Shutt, Laura Weiss and Jessica Wehrman
Posted October 28, 2021 at 2:51pm
Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, D-Va., said because his state's gubernatorial race is so tight, passing the bipartisan bill by Virginia Election Day may make a difference.

As Halloween deadline nears, Democrats spooked over highway law

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted October 27, 2021 at 11:44am
North Carolina Democratic Rep. David Price is retiring rather than seek another term in 2022.

Price, Doyle join Democrats who won’t be back after 2022

By Jessica Wehrman and Bridget Bowman
Posted October 18, 2021 at 12:54pm, Updated at 2:18pm
Jeff Zients, President Joe Biden's COVID-19 coordinator, said last month the restrictions would be lifted for those fully vaccinated.

White House sets Nov. 8 to open US to vaccinated travelers

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted October 15, 2021 at 12:03pm
Containers are piled up at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles in California in September, signs of nationwide record-high demand for imported goods fueling a supply-chain logjam.

Supply chain logjam poses question: Can Biden save Christmas?

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted October 13, 2021 at 11:50am, Updated at 4:29pm
Congress passed a short-term extension of highway and transit projects after a long-term bill got caught up in a standoff over a major budget and policy bill.

Short-term highway bill extension brings anxiety to contractors

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted October 13, 2021 at 6:00am
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said the inclusion of rail and transit funding in the infrastructure bill will make it harder to provide "robust" funding in the reconciliation bill.

Transit, rail funding seen as vulnerable to reconciliation cuts

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted October 12, 2021 at 1:15pm
President Joe Biden, accompanied by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries and Assistant Speaker Katherine Clark, walks through the Crypt of the Capitol on the way to the House Democrats' caucus meeting in the basement of the Capitol on Friday, Oct. 1, 2021.

Biden headed to Capitol Hill to try to bridge Democratic divide

By Jessica Wehrman, Lindsey McPherson and Laura Weiss
Posted October 1, 2021 at 2:45pm
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., delayed a planned Thursday House vote on a Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill as negotiations on an intertwined partisan spending bill continued.

House delays infrastructure vote as last-minute talks hit wall

By Lindsey McPherson and Jessica Wehrman
Posted September 30, 2021 at 11:41pm
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Thursday leaves her weekly news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center, where she discussed the vote on the infrastructure bill.

Pelosi confident about ‘winning’ infrastructure vote

By Lindsey McPherson and Jessica Wehrman
Posted September 30, 2021 at 1:30pm
Rep. Don Young was on the House floor for the opening session of the 117th Congress in January.

Eschewing Zoom, Don Young AWOL for 19 months of markups

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted September 30, 2021 at 6:30am
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks with reporters after a rally to promote climate benefits in the budget reconciliation package in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Infrastructure vote still on despite reconciliation stalemate

By Lindsey McPherson and Jessica Wehrman
Posted September 29, 2021 at 8:31pm