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House votes to override Trump veto of defense bill
Trump's veto objected to renaming military bases that honor Confederate officials. He also sought changes to social media regulations.
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Trump's veto objected to renaming military bases that honor Confederate officials. He also sought changes to social media regulations.
Forty-four House Republicans joined most Democrats in backing a dramatic increase in the size of tax rebates in the latest coronavirus relief package.
Trump signed a massive government funding and pandemic aid package, despite earlier calling it a “disgrace” and demanding that lawmakers amend it.
CQ Roll Call cartoonist R.J. Matson concludes his recap of 2020 with a pictorial look at Congress, amid the year’s challenges, darkness and absurdity.
Lawmakers appear to be concerned that China could access genetic and health data of U.S. soldiers and secret agents through home ancestry tests.
House leaders spent Christmas Eve morning rejecting each others’ attempts to address Trump’s concerns with the omnibus and coronavirus relief bill.
The EPA will leave smog-forming ozone pollution standards where the Obama administration set them in 2015, despite calls for tighter limits.
President Donald Trump's remarks Tuesday night criticizing the omnibus spending package took aim at several projects prioritized by Sen. Richard C. Shelby.
President Donald Trump's broadside against provisions in the spending and coronavirus relief package threatens Congress‘ normally placid holiday break.
Photos of the year as seen by photo editor Bill Clark. 2020 felt like a decade's worth of news packed into 12 months.
Congress rejected Democrats' effort to ban Confederate symbols from national parks in the fiscal 2021 spending package.
Watch as CQ Roll Call’s Dean DeChiaro discuss some of the big takeaways on tech spending in the massive year-end appropriations and pandemic relief bill.
Mary C. Curtis speaks with the Rev. Franklin Graham, son of the Rev. Billy Graham, for a candid conversation on faith and politics.
Congress nearly passed, after a 20-year hiatus, a State Department authorization bill this month. But then something happened to torpedo the effort.
Matson continues to show 2020 the door with some of his favorite cartoons of the year satirizing the presidential election.
Lawmakers in both chambers have been girding for a vote to override the veto of the massive defense bill, which has been enacted for 59 years.
With House and Senate majorities razor thin next year, a group that can work both sides of the aisle thinks it will have a bigger role in breaking gridlock.
Pressure to prevent Biden inauguration is aimed at GOP governors and legislators, and at Georgia senators ahead of runoff elections Jan. 5.
Trump’s decision to slam the latest round of pandemic relief from Congress could complicate matters for Georgia Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.
President-elect Joe Biden praised Congress for working together on a $900 billion COVID-19 relief package and said he expects more cooperation next year.