Heard On The Hill · 117th Congress
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A service dog stands up at a conference on the passage the Puppies Assisting Wounded Servicemembers for Veterans Therapy Act.
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A service dog stands up at a conference on the passage the Puppies Assisting Wounded Servicemembers for Veterans Therapy Act.
Brood X is back in Washington after a 17-year hiatus. Cicadas are known to get swept up in politics, like a 2004 Republican attack ad.
Photo of the day: A squirrel enjoys a Snickers candy bar in Upper Senate Park at the Capitol.
Congress doesn’t have to adhere to D.C.’s mask-wearing rules, and some returning to the Capitol aren’t wearing masks.
Gov. John Bel Edwards talks with Rep.-elect Troy Carter as they wait for Speaker Nancy Pelosi to arrive for Carter's ceremonial swearing-in.
A duck and her ducklings relax along the side of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday.
As the meeting came to a close, no one addressed the 800-pound Thermian in the room. “I think this was a great hearing,” the chairwoman said.
Nancy Pelosi elbow-bumped Kamala Harris, Ted Cruz struggled to keep his eyes open and an errant cellphone interrupted Joe Biden’s address.
Photos of the week: This week featured Biden's first address to Congress, a pink supermoon, a 51-foot joint and representatives of the George Floyd family meeting with lawmakers.
Fred Upton never planned to return to Capitol Hill - Congress
Margaret G. Kibben has invited people to pray with her often, on some of the most difficult days that Congress has seen in many years.
While some congressional offices do recruit from HBCUs, the data shows that white members are still mostly hiring white interns.
Perhaps the most striking change from the past at Wednesday's address was the presence of two women in the chairs behind the president.
The joint address to Congress looked vastly different from the past due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Rep. Tom Cole suggested he and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh could bond over some booze. Except -- Walsh is a recovering alcoholic.
This year, with Biden in the White House and their party in control of both chambers of Congress, Democratic women embraced color again.
Stacey Abrams is writing fiction under her own name, and Jake Tapper has another congressional murder mystery on the way.
Sen. Richard J. Durbin carries a copy of Sen. Amy Klobuchar's book "Antitrust" as he arrives in the Capitol on the Senate subway on Tuesday.
This week saw a guilty verdict in the Chauvin trial, House passage of a D.C. statehood bill and Senate passage of an anti-Asian hate bill.
Photo of the day: A parking garage worker at Union Station in Washington inspects an electric fixture as it sparks and smokes on Thursday.