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Sen. Angus King finally set the record straight on Smokey Bear's alleged middle name, despite what some song-writers might have you believe.
Watch CQ Roll Call's interview with historian Jonathan Bernstein on bases named after Confederate generals.
Minority-owned businesses struggling as PG County reopens - Video
Calls to defund the police have become a rallying cry of the protests. But activists and politicians don’t necessarily see eye-to-eye on what that means.
As America and its military wrestle with painful questions about race, the Senate voted to confirm Gen. Charles Brown as the first black Air Force chief.
A senior Defense Department attorney and a former legal advisor for the State Department break down what's in the Insurrection Act and how it's used.
Democrats proposed a police reform bill Monday amid continuing protests against police brutality nationwide following the death of George Floyd.
In the understatement of the century, Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared “there’s so much going on.” We’re unsure whether to laugh or to cry.
Several lawmakers have attended the nationwide protests following the slaying of George Floyd in the past few days, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“Those rallies and protests are like a buffet for COVID,” said Dr. Calvin Smith. But he calls police brutality a public health epidemic.
There is one agency whose efforts, to some, fall short: the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
As lawmakers continue to struggle with the mute button, Republicans are begging Democrats to make House members meet in-person again.
Republicans taking back the House in November is looking less and less possible. With recent race changes, Democrats are likely to bolster their majority.
Joe Novotny listened to D.C. punk rock music to get psyched-up before facing the C-SPAN cameras during the House’s impeachment of President Donald Trump.
A year after a reported decline in overdoses in the U.S., the coronavirus pandemic seems to have caused a recent uptick in deaths.
Nancy Pelosi and Donald Trump traded jabs about dog poop, while Joni Ernst gave a Memorial Day tribute and Kevin McCarthy advertised his favorite Starbucks.
Senate Republicans are warning of a “wave of COVID-19-related lawsuits” against hospitals and businesses as they begin to reopen.
Watch as Arizona Republican Rep. David Schweikert talks about how he believes Congress should reposition thinking around legislating blockchain.
No matter what your mask, on Capitol Hill, it’s the wild, wild West. Do you don a standard issue mask, or something homespun?
Lawmakers at a House Rules Committee hearing this week ganged up on Rep. Jim McGovern for his choice of mask, and more in this week's Hits and Misses.