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House Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters attributes her long-standing interest in housing policy to her many moves as a child.

Waters’ decades of housing work hangs in the balance in reconciliation cliffhanger

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted September 28, 2021 at 12:26pm
Rep. Ro Khanna told CQ Roll Call that “it would be very attractive for someone” to rotate among federal agencies as a cybersecurity expert.

Bill aims to codify federal cyber personnel rotation program

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted September 28, 2021 at 7:00am
SEC Chairman Gary Gensler told the Senate Banking Committee two weeks ago that the agency would focus on crypto finance.

SEC seen having clear case against Coinbase’s lending program

By Peter Feltman
Posted September 28, 2021 at 6:00am
On abortion and guns, the Supreme Court could either issue broader rulings that could change American society or find middle ground with narrower consequences.

Supreme Court at crossroads in term with abortion and gun cases

By Todd Ruger
Posted September 28, 2021 at 5:00am
Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal, left, with ranking member Kevin Brady in February. Brady is reconsidering GOP support for a retirement bill the panel approved in May.

GOP reconsiders retirement bill as Democrats push new mandate

By Laura Weiss
Posted September 27, 2021 at 12:30pm
Dreamers and DACA supporters rally outside of the Supreme Court in June 2020.

Biden administration moves to reissue DACA after court ruling

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted September 27, 2021 at 11:30am
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks at a press briefing Friday at the White House.

US clears encampment of Haitian migrants in Texas

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted September 24, 2021 at 5:22pm
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci testify before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on July 20, 2021.

Biden administration defends booster shot decision amid confusion

By Ariel Cohen
Posted September 24, 2021 at 4:24pm
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., speaks with reporters as she arrives for the House Democrats' caucus meeting in the basement of the Capitol on Tuesday.

House votes on infrastructure, reconciliation hang in the balance

By David Lerman
Posted September 24, 2021 at 4:18pm
A soldier gets ready for a Navy and Marine Corps training exercise at Camp Lejeune in October 2017.

Hawks have upper hand as Pentagon spending debate looms

By Andrew Clevenger
Posted September 24, 2021 at 2:10pm
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., conducts a news conference on the abortion rights bill outside of the Capitol on Friday. Reps. Lori Trahan, D-Mass., and Lizzie Fletcher, D-Texas, right, also appear.

House passes abortion rights legislation

By Sandhya Raman
Posted September 24, 2021 at 12:37pm
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, flanked by Republican Sens. Rick Scott of Florida and John Barrasso of Wyoming, speaks Wednesday during the Senate Republican press conference on the debt limit.

Bipartisan Policy Center: Debt limit breach possible after Oct. 15

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted September 24, 2021 at 10:30am
Flight deck personnel work near an F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter aircraft aboard the USS Nimitz in 2020.

House passes major defense policy bill

By Andrew Clevenger and Mark Satter
Posted September 23, 2021 at 4:14pm, Updated at 9:30pm
Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., walks up the House steps for the first vote of the day in the Capitol on June 23, 2021.

House Democrats ready reconciliation package for floor vote next week

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted September 23, 2021 at 7:22pm
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer conduct a news conference to announce a “framework” for Biden’s economic plan in the Capitol Visitor Center on Thursday.

Many lingering questions despite ‘framework’ for reconciliation offsets

By Lindsey McPherson and Laura Weiss
Posted September 23, 2021 at 12:03pm, Updated at 6:47pm
A volunteer administers a coronavirus vaccine as cars line up at a mass vaccination site earlier this year. Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Thursday that a third shot be available to some people.

CDC advisers back third COVID-19 shot for older and high-risk people

By Ariel Cohen
Posted September 23, 2021 at 5:45pm
Visitors arrive at the cloud pavilion of Amazon Web Services at a trade fair in Hanover, Germany, in 2016. Charges that the Pentagon favored AWS for a cloud computing contract it did not win have not abated.

Pentagon watchdog rebuts critics of JEDI contract probe

By John M. Donnelly
Posted September 23, 2021 at 4:48pm
The House overwhelmingly passed a bill Thursday to send $1 billion to Israel for its Iron Dome missile defense system.

House passes Israel Iron Dome funding with some Democratic defections

By Rachel Oswald
Posted September 23, 2021 at 4:05pm
Airline staff are seen at Dulles International Airport in August. Flight attendant groups want the Justice Department to be more aggressive in prosecuting disruptive airline passengers.

More air rage incidents spur calls for criminal enforcement

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted September 23, 2021 at 3:32pm
Sen. Jeff Merkley has introduced a bill that would phase out single-use plastics and similar materials.

PepsiCo’s vow to curb plastics use raises hopes for more action

By Ellen Meyers
Posted September 23, 2021 at 7:00am
Passengers go through security at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Domestic flight vaccine mandate? Not ‘off the table’

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted September 23, 2021 at 6:00am
Colored tape on the floor guides COVID-19 vaccine recipients to the vaccine administration room at a neighborhood vaccination center in Washington earlier this year. The FDA authorized a third shot for the Pfizer vaccine on Wednesday.

FDA authorizes Pfizer COVID-19 booster for people at high risk

By Emily Kopp
Posted September 22, 2021 at 8:32pm
Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, D-N.Y., center, speaks at a news conference Wednesday on the treatment of Haitian immigrants at the U.S. border in Texas.

Black lawmakers sound alarm on Haitian migrant treatment

By Caroline Coudriet
Posted September 22, 2021 at 8:00pm
From left, Rep. Karen Bass, Sen. Tim Scott, Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. Josh Gottheimer hold a news conference in May on bipartisan negotiations on police overhaul legislation.

Congress stalls on police overhaul bills, again

By Todd Ruger
Posted September 22, 2021 at 3:58pm
A girl carries her belongings on her head as she is leaving the city of Zarima, Ethiopia, on Sept. 16 following a huge battle between the Ethiopian National Defense Force and pro-TPLF (Tigray People’s Liberation Front) rebels.

Ethiopia violence stokes alarm in Washington about civil war

By Rachel Oswald
Posted September 22, 2021 at 2:58pm
Getting a revised budget resolution out of the Senate Budget Committee, led by Vermont independent Bernie Sanders, might be a big challenge.

Potential fallback for debt ceiling fraught with complications

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted September 22, 2021 at 10:30am
State data proves breakthrough COVID-19 cases are becoming more common as the delta variant roars through the country.

What I learned from getting a breakthrough COVID-19 infection

By Ariel Cohen
Posted September 22, 2021 at 6:15am
A health care worker conducts a COVID-19 test at a walk-up location in Farragut Square in Washington on Sept. 3.

Breakthrough COVID-19 cases expected to become more common in coming months

By Ariel Cohen
Posted September 22, 2021 at 6:00am
Rep. Michael C. Burgess, R-Texas, an OB-GYN, said he has never seen confusion over what is considered life-saving in the field.

Constituent demands rise, but congressional budgets stay same

By Michael Macagnone
Posted September 22, 2021 at 5:00am
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., arrives Tuesday to speak at the "In America: Remember" art installation on the National Mall.

House passes stopgap funding, debt ceiling suspension bill

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted September 21, 2021 at 3:31pm, Updated at 8:45pm