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Texas Republican Rep. Daniel Crenshaw talks with reporters outside the Capitol on Friday.

Congress

Stopgap funding bills hung up in both chambers

House GOP has yet to converge on a Plan B, while border security talks fall apart in Senate

By Aidan Quigley and Laura Weiss
Posted September 29, 2023 at 7:07pm

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks to reporters on the House steps after she voted against a short-term spending bill on Friday.

Congress

Who are the House Republicans who opposed the stopgap budget bill?

By Herb Jackson
Posted September 29, 2023 at 5:47pm
Sens. Charles E. Grassley and Dianne Feinstein — at the time the chairman and ranking Democrat, respectively — listen to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testify during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Supreme Court nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh in 2020.

Congress

Feinstein broke glass ceilings during decades of Judiciary Committee work

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted September 29, 2023 at 3:56pm
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau building in Washington on March 29, 2021.

Policy

Supreme Court to hear arguments on funding for financial protection agency

By Michael Macagnone
Posted September 29, 2023 at 12:58pm
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee watched their own witnesses undercut the first Biden impeachment hearing this week.

Video

Taking it to the limit — Congressional Hits and Misses

By Chris Hale
Posted September 29, 2023 at 5:08pm
Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., leaves a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023.

House GOP looks ahead to Plan B after doomed stopgap vote

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted September 29, 2023 at 1:08pm, Updated at 2:05pm
A vase of roses sits on the black-draped desk of Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Friday as colleagues praised her career.

Colleagues honor Feinstein as death leaves Senate vacancy

By Daniela Altimari
Posted September 29, 2023 at 1:40pm

Share Your Opinion: State of Government Affairs 2024

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted September 12, 2023 at 4:13pm

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a life in photos

By Chris Hale and Bill Clark
Posted September 29, 2023 at 1:22pm
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., seen in the Capitol earlier this month, has died.

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein dies at 90

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted September 29, 2023 at 9:05am, Updated at 10:30am
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Drake Enterprises, an auto parts manufacturer in Clinton Township, Mich., on Wednesday evening.

‘You’re getting screwed’: Trump, Biden take general election green flag

By John T. Bennett
Posted September 29, 2023 at 6:00am

Webinar: Fall 2023 Legislative Preview: Appropriations, Farm Bill, NDAA, and Beyond

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted September 12, 2023 at 4:14pm
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., is questioned by reporters Thursday after he addressed Democratic colleagues, many of whom have called on him to resign because of his indictment on federal corruption charges.

Menendez told colleagues he’s not quitting. Now what?

By Daniela Altimari and Niels Lesniewski
Posted September 28, 2023 at 5:41pm
Signs mark the offices of the House Ethics Committee in the Longworth House Office Building in July.

House panel details the ethics rules of a shutdown

By Chris Marquette
Posted September 28, 2023 at 4:49pm
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., is accused in a federal indictment of bribery and providing Egyptian officials sensitive information.

US aid to Egypt under new scrutiny after Menendez indictment

By Rachel Oswald
Posted September 28, 2023 at 3:39pm

Webinar: Gen Z to Boomers: Strategies for Effective Advocacy Communications Across Generations

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted September 12, 2023 at 4:14pm
Ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin cites quotes by Republican members as Chairman James R. Comer looks on Thursday during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden.

House Republicans short on evidence to impeach Biden, witnesses tell panel

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted September 28, 2023 at 2:41pm

At the Races: Garden State of chaos

By Mary Ellen McIntire, Daniela Altimari and Niels Lesniewski
Posted September 28, 2023 at 2:30pm
On Jan. 3, 2017, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain reeneacts taking the oath of office administered by Vice President Joe Biden as his wife, Cindy, looks on in the Capitol's Old Senate Chamber.

Biden pushes bipartisanship ahead of potential shutdown

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted September 28, 2023 at 12:07pm
Group of business people covering their faces with question mark

Fireside Chat: How to Build Your Personal Brand as an Elected Official

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted August 22, 2023 at 11:34am
FBI Director Christopher Wray defended the Section 702 program during a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing in July.

Privacy board recommends changes to Section 702 surveillance authority

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted September 28, 2023 at 11:36am
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., speaks with reporters after the Senate Democrats’ weekly lunch in the Capitol on Wednesday.

Suits are back: It’s been a wild two weeks for the Senate floor’s dress code

By Jim Saksa
Posted September 28, 2023 at 11:24am
New York Giants receiver Mario Manningham makes a catch for a 39-yard gain against the New England Patriots in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. 5, 2012, in Indianapolis.

Comparing elections to sports, does Biden have all kinds of time?

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted September 28, 2023 at 7:30am

Capitol Ink | The Scarecrow of the House

By R.J. Matson
Posted September 28, 2023 at 7:00am
Rep. Ro Khanna, center, won an award for workplace culture this summer. Above, he poses in the Cannon Building on Tuesday with some of his aides: from left, Ky Ban, Emma Preston, Abhay Dewan and Marie Baldassarre.

Happy staff, happy constituents? Reps. Khanna and Moore think so

By Jim Saksa
Posted September 28, 2023 at 6:30am
Rep. Greg Landsman, D-Ohio, seen here in the Library of Congress in January, says "there are two ways in politics to approach faith."

This tattoo reminds Rep. Greg Landsman of his faith (and his first job in politics)

By Jackie Wang
Posted September 28, 2023 at 6:15am
California Democratic Rep. Sara Jacobs is part of a congressional coalition hoping to overhaul current privacy laws to give consumers more agency over their personal data, including the right to delete their information.

Lawmakers look at data privacy in post-Dobbs world

By Olivia Bridges
Posted September 28, 2023 at 6:00am
Library of Congress cafeteria worker Willie Price speaks with CQ Roll Call on Wednesday about the looming federal government shutdown.

‘We don’t know what’s going to happen to us’: Hill service workers brace for missed wages during shutdown

By Justin Papp
Posted September 28, 2023 at 5:30am
Federal workers and contractors, along with their unions, stage a protest calling for an end to the government shutdown and back pay in the Hart Senate Office Building on Jan. 23, 2019.

Shutdowns of the past were ‘emotional,’ ‘terrible’ for Hill staffers

By Justin Papp
Posted September 28, 2023 at 5:00am
A sculpture in front of the facade of the Supreme Court Building.

Supreme Court to weigh cases on guns, regulations and redistricting in new term

By Michael Macagnone
Posted September 28, 2023 at 5:00am
Candidates on stage at the second 2024 Republican presidential primary debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., on Wednesday.

GOP candidates partially blame shutdown threat on Trump debt

By John T. Bennett
Posted September 27, 2023 at 10:55pm
Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., makes a statement prior to a closed-door Ways and Means Committee meeting to review additional evidence submitted by IRS whistleblowers regarding allegations of misdeeds by President Joe Biden and his family in the Longworth House Office Building on Wednesday.

Ways and Means votes to release more Hunter Biden documents

By Olivia Bridges and Laura Weiss
Posted September 27, 2023 at 5:42pm
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and his wife, Nadine Arslanian Menendez, leave U.S. District Court in New York City on Wednesday after pleading not guilty to a three-count indictment.

Menendez pleads not guilty, will face colleagues calling for ouster

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted September 27, 2023 at 4:54pm
John L. “Jack” Smith, the special counsel investigating Donald Trump in two felony cases, delivers a statement in June.

Shutdown would not halt federal criminal cases against Trump in DC and Florida

By Michael Macagnone
Posted September 27, 2023 at 4:53pm
Ron Russo, the inspector general for U.S. Capitol Police, testifies during a House Administration subcommittee oversight hearing in July.

Capitol Police inspector general to retire after less than a year on the job

By Chris Marquette
Posted September 27, 2023 at 4:28pm
Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., makes a statement prior to a closed Ways and Means Committee meeting to review additional evidence submitted by IRS whistleblowers regarding allegations of misdeeds by President Joe Biden and his family, in the Longworth House Office Building on Wednesday.

House Republicans to call witnesses at first Biden impeachment probe hearing

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted September 27, 2023 at 3:07pm
Banking Chairman Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, shown earlier this month, backed the cannabis measure.

Senate Banking advances cannabis banking bill

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted September 27, 2023 at 2:49pm
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., is among those eligible for plum tax-writing panel position.

Menendez’s Finance panel seat would have no shortage of suitors

By Laura Weiss
Posted September 27, 2023 at 2:21pm