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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., points to a photo of Justice Clarence Thomas during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in May on Supreme Court ethics.

Supreme Court ethics code doesn’t satisfy Democratic appetite for legislation

By Michael Macagnone
Posted November 14, 2023 at 6:00pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., holds a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday.

House passes two-tiered stopgap bill to avert shutdown

By Aidan Quigley
Posted November 14, 2023 at 5:42pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., leaves a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center where he addressed the continuing resolution to fund the government on Tuesday.

Relatively smooth sailing seen for stopgap bill in House

By Aidan Quigley
Posted November 14, 2023 at 2:27pm
Speaker Mike Johnson leaves a meeting of the House Republican Conference on Tuesday.

House backers of proposed cuts to federal law enforcement see Johnson as an ally

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted November 14, 2023 at 1:00pm
Senate Commerce Chair Maria Cantwell says the Senate is on track to pass a package of child online safety measures this year.

Push renewed for online child safety bill despite setbacks

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted November 14, 2023 at 7:00am
Comedian and activist Jon Stewart, right, speaks to Marine Corps veteran Jerry Ensminger on Aug. 10, 2022, during a signing ceremony for the PACT Act, which allows those harmed at Camp Lejeune to file damage claims.

Key study of Camp Lejeune cancers in limbo as cases go to court

By Mike Magner
Posted November 14, 2023 at 6:00am
Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., left, speaks with the panel's ranking member Susan Collins, R-Maine, before the start of the committee's hearing on the president's supplemental request on Nov. 8.

Stopgap funds bill leaves plenty of post-Thanksgiving leftovers

By CQ Roll Call Staff
Posted November 13, 2023 at 7:31pm
Rep. Mike Garcia, R-Calif., is seen outside the House Republican Conference speaker election in the Longworth House Office Building on Oct. 11.

Rep. Mike Garcia pushes for ‘right sized’ Ukraine supplemental

By Briana Reilly
Posted November 13, 2023 at 3:59pm
Justices pose for their official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington in October 2022. Seated, from left, are Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., and Justice Elena Kagan. Standing behind, from left, are Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Supreme Court announces new ethics code

By Michael Macagnone
Posted November 13, 2023 at 3:54pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., conducts a news conference on Nov. 7 with family members of hostages taken by Hamas during the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

Johnson offers up two-tiered stopgap funds plan

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted November 11, 2023 at 5:25pm, Updated at 6:30pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., conducts a news conference in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, November 7, 2023.

Senate stopgap plan might extend to January, jettison war funds

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted November 11, 2023 at 11:19am
Steve Bannon, former adviser to President Donald Trump, addresses the media last year outside a federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., after being sentenced to four months in prison for defying a congressional subpoena.

Appeals court skeptical of Bannon push to overturn contempt of Congress convictions

By Michael Macagnone
Posted November 9, 2023 at 4:53pm
Reps. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, right, Rich McCormick, R-Ga., left, and Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., leave the U.S. Capitol after the last votes of the week on Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. Crenshaw introduced a bill that would bar federal funds aimed at training pediatricians from going to hospitals that provide gender-affirming care. "This is the issue of our time. This is the hill we're going to die on," he said of the issue.

House GOP eyes trans care as newest battleground issue

By Ariel Cohen
Posted November 9, 2023 at 7:00am
A server pours a beer at Capitol Lounge on Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast on Capitol Hill.

Beer industry enters fray in battle over rum tax benefits

By Laura Weiss
Posted November 9, 2023 at 5:00am
Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, leaves a House GOP Conference meeting at the Capitol Hill Club on May 10, 2023.

Owens passes up run for Appropriations seat

By Aidan Quigley
Posted November 8, 2023 at 4:22pm
Senate Appropriations Chair Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., left, and ranking member Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, take their seats before the start of a hearing on the president's supplemental request on Wednesday.

Border policy dominates Senate hearing on supplemental request

By David Lerman
Posted November 8, 2023 at 4:20pm
Steve Bannon addresses the media in October 2022 outside federal court in Washington after being sentenced to four months in prison and a $6,500 fine for defying a congressional subpoena.

Appeals court to hear arguments over Bannon contempt of Congress conviction

By Michael Macagnone
Posted November 8, 2023 at 3:49pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., on Tuesday. He has said his chamber won't consider the House's stand-alone Israel aid bill.

Forecast for security spending remains cloudy

By John M. Donnelly, David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted November 7, 2023 at 6:30pm
Speaker Mike Johnson arrives for the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday.

House GOP zeroing in on two-step stopgap bill or January CR

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted November 7, 2023 at 1:26pm, Updated at 4:18pm
Activists rally outside the Supreme Court before the start of oral arguments Tuesday in a Second Amendment case.

Supreme Court sounds ready to keep domestic violence gun possession ban

By Michael Macagnone
Posted November 7, 2023 at 3:23pm
President Joe Biden has called for a multi-agency approach to AI.

Dueling interests ask if Biden goes too far on AI or falls short

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted November 7, 2023 at 7:00am
President George Bush, seen here at the Jan. 30, 1992 State of the Union, with Vice President Dan Quayle, left and Speaker Tom Foley, faced off with appropriators on aid to Israel, resulting in a “laddered” approach to some federal spending.

A (very) brief history of ‘laddered’ stopgap appropriations

By Aidan Quigley and Peter Cohn
Posted November 6, 2023 at 12:57pm
Visitors walk across the Supreme Court plaza to enter the building in October.

Supreme Court to hear arguments in case that could limit Congress on gun control

By Michael Macagnone
Posted November 6, 2023 at 10:38am
Rep. Burgess Owens leaves a House GOP conference meeting on Oct. 13.

Rep. Owens weighs intercepting a House Appropriations seat

By Aidan Quigley
Posted November 3, 2023 at 5:00am
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., takes questions during a news conference in the Capitol on Thursday.

Johnson: House GOP looking at new twist to stopgap funds fight

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted November 2, 2023 at 3:59pm
Vanessa Leavitt puts out Tang and Kool-Aid for patients to take with their methadone treatment at CAP Quality Care clinic in Westbrook, Maine.

Methadone access becomes flashpoint in fight over opioid crisis

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted November 2, 2023 at 5:30am
A new version of the House fiscal 2024 Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bill adds a provision that would prohibit federal funds from being spent to enforce a recent rule on background checks.

Republican spending bill would block gun background check rule

By Ryan Tarinelli and Michael Macagnone
Posted November 1, 2023 at 8:09pm
Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., says additional National Airport slots would be “pro-consumer.”

United Airlines leads air lobbying as FAA bill stalls

By Valerie Yurk
Posted November 1, 2023 at 3:54pm
Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., hopes to add an amendment that would bar funding from finalizing the Biden administration’s proposed rule to set minimum staffing levels in nursing homes. 

GOP adds social policy riders to House Labor-HHS-Education spending bill

By Sandhya Raman and Jessie Hellmann
Posted November 1, 2023 at 2:26pm
The Supreme Court building at sunset.

Supreme Court sounds not so big on trademark for ‘Trump too small’ slogan

By Michael Macagnone
Posted November 1, 2023 at 1:49pm