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Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, argued in an appeal the mask policy was political and violated her First Amendment rights.

3 House Republicans fined for not wearing mask on floor

By Chris Marquette
Posted June 25, 2021 at 4:25pm
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says said much has already been done to address the Jan. 6 insurrection.

McCarthy has ‘no’ regrets opposing Jan. 6 independent commission

By Chris Marquette
Posted June 25, 2021 at 3:00pm
Justice Clarence Thomas joined the three justices in the liberal wing of the court in a dissent.

Supreme Court reshapes Congress’ power to allow lawsuits

By Todd Ruger
Posted June 25, 2021 at 2:20pm
Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., said he will vote against a budget resolution with reconciliation instructions for trillions in additional spending.

Some moderate Democrats oppose Biden spending package, as progressives feared

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted June 25, 2021 at 5:30am
The Capitol Police would get an $88.4 million funding increase for fiscal 2022 under the bill.

House Legislative Branch spending bill advances

By Chris Marquette
Posted June 24, 2021 at 2:33pm
Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during her weekly news conference in the Capitol on Thursday.

Pelosi announces select committee will investigate Jan. 6 attack

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted June 24, 2021 at 11:44am
Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testifies during the House Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday, June 23, 2021.

Pentagon leaders push back on GOP ‘critical race theory’ accusations

By Andrew Clevenger
Posted June 23, 2021 at 6:55pm
Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, asks questions during the House Intelligence Committee hearing on the impeachment inquiry of President Trump in Longworth Building on Thursday, November 21, 2019. Fiona Hill, former National Security Council Russia adviser, and David Holmes, counselor for political affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, testified. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Lawmaker on Vanessa Guillén Act: ‘When we have a system that fails victims, everyone is failed’

By Jinitzail Hernández
Posted June 23, 2021 at 4:00pm
The U.S. Capitol Police flag flies in front of the police department's headquarters on Sept. 23, 2020.

House spending bill boosts Capitol Police, office budgets

By Chris Marquette and Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted June 23, 2021 at 2:37pm
Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote the majority opinion that ruled the structure of the FHFA is unconstitutional.

Supreme Court smacks Congress on structure of Federal Housing Finance Agency

By Todd Ruger
Posted June 23, 2021 at 12:56pm
Rep. John Yarmuth speaks with reporters as he leaves the House Democrats caucus meeting on June 15.

Yarmuth: House budget blueprint won’t veer too far from Senate’s

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted June 23, 2021 at 9:59am
Florida Rep. Brian Mast wants more funding for Everglades restoration.

Earmark requests grow as House Appropriations panels begin work

By Jennifer Shutt and Ryan Kelly
Posted June 23, 2021 at 9:17am
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse questions Amy Coney Barrett during her Supreme Court confirmation in 2020. The Rhode Island Democrat has long sought to curb conservative anonymous donors and their influence on the high court.

Whitehouse bolsters push to shine light on ‘dark money’ at Supreme Court

By Todd Ruger
Posted June 23, 2021 at 5:00am
Vice President Kamala Harris talks with members of the media in the Capitol on Tuesday, June 22, 2021.

Harris casts fifth and sixth tiebreak votes to confirm OPM chief

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted June 22, 2021 at 8:37pm
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., with Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., left, and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, discuss legislation that would move decisions about prosecuting serious crimes out of the military chain of command. They spoke at a news conference April 29 outside the Capitol.

Military brass resists big changes to prosecution decisions

By John M. Donnelly
Posted June 22, 2021 at 6:34pm, Updated at 7:57pm
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin in the Capitol on Tuesday, hours before he joined his Democratic colleagues in supporting a procedural vote on the For the People Act.

Senate voting and ethics overhaul stalls, but Democrats united in vote

By Kate Ackley and Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted June 22, 2021 at 6:19pm
Members of the National Guard are seen on Jan. 25 at the Speaker’s Lobby door where Ashli Babbitt was fatally shot during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Speaker’s Lobby to reopen for the first time since the pandemic and insurrection

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted June 22, 2021 at 6:00am
Sen. Patrick J. Toomey has been a strident critic of federal transit spending.

Retiring Toomey looms large over Senate transport bill

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted June 22, 2021 at 5:00am
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., talks with reporters as he makes his way to the Senate floor last week.

Sanders budget plan would spend more, tax less than Biden

By Paul M. Krawzak and Peter Cohn
Posted June 21, 2021 at 7:32pm
Former Sen. Joseph Lieberman, speaks with Delaware Democratic Sen. Tom Carper in this archive photo. Lieberman, who passed along the D.C. statehood baton to Carper, is set to deliver remarks before a Senate committee hearing on statehood Tuesday.

Lieberman plans ‘head and heart’ appeal at DC statehood Senate hearing

By Chris Cioffi
Posted June 21, 2021 at 6:26pm
A Capitol Police van in front of the Senate wing of the Capitol on June 17, 2021. Democrats estimate the department will run out of funds by August without action by Congress.

Capitol Police could run out of funds over August recess

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted June 21, 2021 at 5:52pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer is taking a “two track” approach toward infrastructure — one bipartisan and the other partisan — that he believes will balance the desires of all Democrats, including centrists such as Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema and progressives such as Massachusetts’ Edward J, Markey.

Democrats promise to do it all despite dissension in the ranks

By Shawn Zeller
Posted June 21, 2021 at 6:46am
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen made no commitments on tax policies at a pair of hearings this week.

House Republicans, Yellen spar over Biden tax proposals

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted June 17, 2021 at 7:34pm
Tommy Beaudreau testifies during his confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Building on April 29.

Interior deputy confirmed with broad support

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted June 17, 2021 at 7:30pm
Vice President Kamala Harris, lawmakers and activist Opal Lee, left, known as the grandmother of Juneteenth, watch as President Joe Biden holds aloft the signed Juneteenth National Independence Day Act in the East Room of the White House on Thursday.

Juneteenth is now a federal holiday, as Biden signs bill

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 17, 2021 at 4:34pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., flanked by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., calls on a reporter Tuesday during the first news conference in the Ohio Clock Corridor since March 2020.

Senate Democrats discussing roughly $6 trillion budget plan

By Paul M. Krawzak, Niels Lesniewski and Jessica Wehrman
Posted June 17, 2021 at 12:44pm
A U.S. Marine pulls down a picture of Saddam Hussein at a school in Al-Kut, Iraq, on April 16, 2003.

House passes repeal of 2002 military authorization for Iraq war

By Rachel Oswald
Posted June 17, 2021 at 12:18pm
From left, Rep. Illinois Danny K. Davis; Massachusetts Sen. Edward J. Markey; Steve Williams, president of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation; and Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith pose with the Juneteenth flag Wednesday ahead of House passage of legislation to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.

Juneteenth to become federal holiday as House sends bill to Biden

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 16, 2021 at 7:37pm, Updated June 17, 2021 at 11:37am
Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., complained that certain restrictions due to COVID-19 were "hogwash." A mask mandate for air travel remains in effect even as restrictions are lifted elsewhere.

Senators running out of patience on mask mandate for travelers

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted June 17, 2021 at 9:30am
House Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters says the ESG legislation would allow investors to hold companies accountable.

House passes ESG, climate disclosure rules for public companies

By Laura Weiss
Posted June 16, 2021 at 6:17pm