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Short-term punt seen likely for spending bills, coronavirus aid
Lawmakers face long odds to complete work on fiscal 2021 spending bills and coronavirus relief in the lame-duck session despite optimistic talk.
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Lawmakers face long odds to complete work on fiscal 2021 spending bills and coronavirus relief in the lame-duck session despite optimistic talk.
Sen. Whitehouse said the “defensive” behavior seems to confirm motive behind partisan Supreme Court decisions, “not just dispassionate adjudication.”
Judy Shelton could be confirmed next week, despite criticism of her unorthodox stances on monetary policy and financial regulation.
Department was criticized for its role in the clearing of demonstrators from Lafayette Square in June.
Rep. Steven M. Palazzo, R-Miss., is being investigated by the Office of Congressional Ethics for allegedly misusing campaign funds.
House lawmakers used the last oversight hearing with Trump-appointed financial regulators to signal how they’ll approach working with Joe Biden’s nominees.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy toes the Trump party line, echoing that he sees no reason President-elect Joe Biden should get intelligence briefings.
Secure remote voting is feasible for the House, according to Democrats on the House Administration Committee, but that doesn't factor in the politics.
Republicans will have at least 26 women in the House — the most they’ve ever had and more than double what they have now — in the next Congress.
Congressional orientation for new members of the House gets underway Thursday, and the coronavirus pandemic has forced significant changes to the program.
The Trump campaign’s allegations of widespread election fraud have run smack-dab into the reality that judges demand evidence.
Come January, fewer lawmakers in Congress will have served in the military than in previous cycles, continuing a trend that is decades in the making.
The next ranking Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee will become a leading GOP voice on health care policies.
With the stopgap law due to expire Dec. 11, a package of bills released by Senate appropriators contains numerous differences with the House.
Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell and New York Democrat Charles E. Schumer were reelected Tuesday to lead their parties in the Senate.
The police force for Congress would get millions more to protect lawmakers and staff in the face of growing personal security concerns.
Divided government appears likely next Congress, but lawmakers will have plenty of opportunites for deal-making, Cohn writes. It’s what the voters want.
AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka endorsed Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro in her bid to become the next House Appropriations chairwoman.
Sen. Joe Manchin’s pledge could disrupt GOP talking points about the risks of unified Democratic government that could result from Georgia Senate runoffs.
Missouri Republican Rep. Jason Smith plans to challenge Ohio’s Bill Johnson for the ranking member position on the House Budget Committee.