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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., leaves the Senate Republicans’ policy lunch in the Capitol on Tuesday, July 16, 2019. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

GOP leaders aren’t calling Trump’s tirade racist

By Thomas McKinless
Posted July 16, 2019 at 8:19pm
From left, Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., conduct a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center responding to negative comments by President Donald Trump that were directed at the freshman House Democrats on Monday, July 15, 2019. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Watch Reps. Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley and Tlaib’s fiery response to Trump’s tirade

By Thomas McKinless
Posted July 15, 2019 at 6:28pm
Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., left, and ranking member Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., conduct a House Judiciary Committee markup up in Rayburn Building on a resolution to authorize subpoenas related to the Trump administration on Thursday, July 11, 2019. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

L for loser, a real clap and a gentle gavel: Congressional Hits and Misses

By Thomas McKinless
Posted July 12, 2019 at 3:04pm
Chairman Derek Kilmer, D-Wash., right, and vice chairman Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ga., are seen during a Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress business meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday, March 12, 2019. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call

The mountains between Congress and modernization

By Jinitzail Hernández, Kate Ackley and Thomas McKinless
Posted July 12, 2019 at 1:09pm
Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, attends a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on Democrats' year end priorities including "reauthorizing the Children's Health Insurance Program, funding community health centers, and passing the Dream Act," on December 14, 2017. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call

Hirono gives emotional plea for migrant children and families

By Hope Howard
Posted July 11, 2019 at 3:04pm
Alex Acosta, nominee for Secretary of Labor, testifies during his Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions confirmation hearing in Dirksen Building, March 22, 2017. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call

Watch: Labor Secretary Acosta defends role in Epstein case

By Hope Howard
Posted July 10, 2019 at 6:57pm
Thousands of tourists and spectators use their smart phones and cameras to document fireworks as they explode over the National Mall for Fourth of July celebrations in Washington, photographed from Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, July 4, 2015. Al Drago/CQ Roll Call

From fishing to fanfare, what presidents do on the Fourth explained

By Nathan Ouellette and Hope Howard
Posted July 2, 2019 at 10:20am
Rep. Ed Perlmutter collides with Rep. Rodney Davis at the plate during the 58th annual Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park on Wednesday June 26, 2019. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

Varsity baseball, scooters and debate food fights: Congressional Hits and Misses

By Thomas McKinless
Posted June 28, 2019 at 2:00pm
Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, speaks at a rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court after their ruling on the census was handed down on Thursday, June 27, 2019. 

Escobar pleads for empathy for migrants

By Hope Howard
Posted June 27, 2019 at 7:04pm
Virginia Rep. Denver Riggleman rolls over on his head as he field a ground ball during the 58th annual Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park on Wednesday. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

These members can play baseball, but do you want them on your trivia team?

By Nathan Ouellette, Hope Howard and Clyde McGrady
Posted June 27, 2019 at 5:00am