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Less than 24 hours after Senate Majority Leader John Thune kicked off his attempt to satisfy those demanding passage of a voter identification bill, House Republicans were already saying they weren’t fooled. “What’s happening right now in the Senate is a SHOW VOTE,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., a leader of the House push to […]
The Senate on Tuesday afternoon voted to begin what could become a long, extended debate on what is known as the SAVE America Act.
Texas Republicans' redraw of the congressional map is running headlong into a Latino electorate disgruntled with Trump and the economy.
The largest House office building is at risk of “catastrophic system failure,” the architect of the Capitol is set to warn Congress.
Joe Crowley was deeply involved in Irish issues at the local level in Queens, in the New York legislature and in Congress.
It was Chief Michael Sullivan’s first time in the budget hot seat since his hiring. He faced questions about threats, retention and more.
President Trump called Iran a "paper tiger" but said he was not ready to declare victory as senators fret over his lack of an exit strategy.
Senate Democrats seek to prevent military action against Cuba -
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review the U.S. effort to remove deportation protections for immigrants from Syria and Haiti.
This week’s Senate action is an effort by GOP leadership to put Democrats on the record — and respond to growing pressure.
Doctors initially predicted the Republican would “be dead by June,” the president said. “OK, that wasn’t public,” Speaker Mike Johnson added.
This week saw action in the Senate as the House was on recess. Here are images captured by CQ Roll Call photojournalists this week.
The House and Senate Armed Services panels have yet to be briefed on the costs of the Iran war, members and aides said Thursday. This week, Pentagon officials gave the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee an estimate of $11.3 billion for the war’s first week, a figure first reported Wednesday by The New York Times. The […]
ANALYSIS — The silence from the Kentucky crowd, many wearing “Make America Great Again” gear, was deafening. The friendly audience in the commonwealth’s 4th District already had booed loudly at President Donald Trump’s mention of “Barack Hussein Obama,” with emphasis on the 44th president’s middle name. It would later howl as the showman in chief […]
President Donald Trump’s decision to draw crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve received little criticism on Capitol Hill Thursday, although Democrats expressed reservations that it would not do much to insulate Americans from global price volatility resulting from the war in Iran. Senate Energy and Natural Resources ranking member Martin Heinrich, D-N.M. said in […]
Numerous lawmakers, including some Republicans, are outraged about the Trump administration’s easing of sanctions on Russian oil exports, amid reports that Moscow is helping Iran target U.S. troops in the Middle East. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, looking to ease a supply crisis caused by the Iran war that has driven up energy prices, announced on […]
The Trump administration has asserted for months that its “bargain” version of the federal $42.5 billion grant program to expand access to broadband internet would save taxpayers money. That made states and their representatives in Congress nervous that funds left over after deployment proposals would be clawed back. Under pressure from senators at an appropriations […]
Democrats and voter advocacy groups are increasingly warning that Trump administration policies and actions could curtail voting in the midterm elections when it comes to changes on who can cast ballots and when it will count. President Donald Trump and federal agencies have taken several steps over the past year they say will protect democracy […]
Just after the Senate overwhelmingly passed a major housing bill Thursday, the top Senate Democratic lawmaker and the top House Republican on the issue diverged over what the House response to the measure should be. The Senate voted, 89-10, in favor of the bill that comprises more than three dozen provisions designed to increase housing […]
Texas is more than a thousand miles away from Capitol Hill, but the race between Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for the state’s Senate seat Wednesday centered on a D.C.-centric topic: the filibuster. The fight is the latest chapter in both men’s quest to earn an ever-coveted endorsement from President Donald […]