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Attorney General Pamela Bondi conducts a news conference in December 2025 at the Department of Justice announcing the arrest of a person suspected of placing pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic national committee offices on Jan. 6, 2021.

Congress

Bondi to face criticism over Epstein disclosure law at House hearing

Attorney general set to appear Wednesday before Judiciary Committee

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted February 10, 2026 at 4:13pm

House and Senate Democrats, pictured in a TV monitor, hold a joint news conference on Department of Homeland Security funding negotiations on Capitol Hill on Feb. 4.

White House

Trump’s jabs at top Democrat could complicate immigration enforcement deal

By John T. Bennett
Posted February 10, 2026 at 3:09pm
Colorado Rep. Jeff Crank's 5th District is a Democratic target. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Campaigns

DCCC adds five House seats to its midterm target list

By Daniela Altimari
Posted February 10, 2026 at 1:53pm
From left, Rodney Scott, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, Joseph Edlow, director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Todd Lyons, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, testify Tuesday during the House Homeland Security Committee hearing on immigration enforcement.

Congress

Immigration officials defend approach at House hearing

By Chris Johnson
Posted February 10, 2026 at 3:46pm

Heard on the Hill

Capitol Lens | Comforting hand

By Bill Clark
Posted February 10, 2026 at 3:26pm
Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro is seeking a 19th term this year. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

As colleagues wind down their careers, Rosa DeLauro is staying put

By Daniela Altimari
Posted February 10, 2026 at 5:17pm
Running back Kenneth Walker III, right, and quarterback Sam Darnold celebrate after the Seattle Seahawks won the Super Bowl over the New England Patriots in Santa Clara, Calif., on Sunday.

How the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks explain the 2026 midterms

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted February 10, 2026 at 4:48pm

2026 State of Government Affairs

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted February 4, 2026 at 12:15pm
Lee Zeldin, administrator of the EPA, speaks during a water policy rule signing ceremony in early 2025.

EPA to roll back finding tying emissions to public health

By Kelly Livingston and David Jordan
Posted February 10, 2026 at 11:13am, Updated at 2:13pm
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick testifies before the Senate Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee on Tuesday.

Senators press Lutnick over connections with Epstein

By Allison Mollenkamp
Posted February 10, 2026 at 1:53pm
Former Rep. Tom Malinowski is seen here on the House steps of the Capitol in 2022, when he represented New Jersey's 7th District. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Malinowski concedes to Mejia in New Jersey special primary

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted February 10, 2026 at 1:35pm

Read the latest issue

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 23, 2020 at 11:36am
House Rules Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., said the provision would give the Supreme Court time to weigh in on the president's tariffs.

House Rules Committee moves to protect Trump’s tariffs from congressional disapproval

By Olivia M. Bridges
Posted February 10, 2026 at 4:10am
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., talks with reporters in the Capitol on Jan. 29.

White House, Democrats negotiate as shutdown deadline nears

By Savannah Behrmann and Chris Johnson
Posted February 9, 2026 at 8:51pm, Updated at 10:39pm
Steve Bannon, former adviser to President Donald Trump, addresses the media outside federal court in Washington in 2022 after being sentenced to four months in prison for defying a congressional subpoena.

US moves to wipe out Stephen Bannon contempt of Congress case

By Michael Macagnone
Posted February 9, 2026 at 5:24pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., swears in the 119th Congress in the House chamber on Jan. 3, 2025. Since then, six new members have joined to fill vacancies left behind by deaths and resignations.

Special election winners on starting in the middle

By Jackie Wang
Posted February 9, 2026 at 4:53pm
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, set up a hearing Thursday with U.S. immigration enforcement officials.

Congress set to drill down on immigration enforcement at hearings

By Michael Macagnone
Posted February 9, 2026 at 3:25pm

Capitol Lens | Virtual deposition

By Bill Clark
Posted February 9, 2026 at 3:13pm
President Donald Trump walks into the White House on Sunday night after returning from a weekend in South Florida. (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump shrugs off racist meme posting amid rare wave of GOP criticism

By John T. Bennett
Posted February 9, 2026 at 12:56pm
Alabama Sen. Katie Britt leaves the Senate Republican lunch meeting in the Capitol on Nov. 19, 2025. Britt has the most earmarks at stake in the Homeland Security bill.

FEMA earmarks threatened by immigration funding standoff

By Aidan Quigley and Aris Folley
Posted February 9, 2026 at 12:42pm
Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., leaves the Republican Senate luncheon in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, July 22, 2025.

Trump’s drug pricing plan gets lukewarm reception

By Lia DeGroot
Posted February 9, 2026 at 11:30am
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., last week laid out Democrats' demands for changes to immigration enforcement policies as part of Homeland Security Department funding, which expires this week. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

This week: DHS faces possible shutdown ahead of congressional recess

By Niels Lesniewski and Valerie Yurk
Posted February 9, 2026 at 6:15am
Analilia Mejia, pictured here at a news conference outside the Capitol in 2023, is locked in a close race with former Rep. Tom Malinowski in the Democratic primary for the special election for New Jersey's 11th District.

Analilia Mejia clings to narrow lead in New Jersey special election primary

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted February 6, 2026 at 5:05pm, Updated at 7:45pm
Lawmakers and members of the press are seen at the Washington Press Club Foundation’s 80th Annual Congressional Dinner on Wednesday night at the Capitol Hilton.

Pressed for time — Congressional Hits and Misses

By Chris Hale
Posted February 6, 2026 at 5:47pm
Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., chairs the House panel that plans to take up a bill that would revamp FirstNet.

First-responders network faced with calls for change

By Allison Mollenkamp
Posted February 6, 2026 at 4:53pm
President Donald Trump speaks during a TrumpRx event in the White House's South Court Auditorium on Thursday evening.

Count the qualifiers: Trump’s week became another presidential talk-a-thon

By John T. Bennett
Posted February 6, 2026 at 4:51pm
Chairman Mark Amodei attends a House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on May 6, 2025.

Mark Amodei, a senior GOP appropriator, to retire at end of term

By Aidan Quigley
Posted February 6, 2026 at 3:35pm
The proposed Virginia map targets the districts of Republican Reps. Rob Wittman, left, Jen Kiggans and John McGuire.

Proposed Virginia map would help Democrats flip up to four House seats

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted February 6, 2026 at 1:26pm
Ranking member Jeanne Shaheen, left, and Chairman Jim Risch, right, look on as Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives for a Senate Foreign Relations hearing about Venezuela on Jan. 28. Rubio also discussed U.S. policy toward Cuba, which Bruce Stokes writes is fraught with risk.

Regime change in Cuba? Careful what you ask for

By Bruce Stokes
Posted February 6, 2026 at 1:21pm

Capitol Ink | Celebrity sighting

By R.J. Matson
Posted February 6, 2026 at 11:44am
Demonstrators attend a rally outside The Washington Post offices in downtown Washington on Thursday, after about 300 newsroom employees were laid off. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | January 30-February 5, 2026

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted February 6, 2026 at 10:37am
The late Rep. John Lewis, is seen on April 15, 2015, recounting his experience in Selma, Ala., to a group of students gathered on the House steps.

You don’t need to view US law-enforcement lawlessness through a ‘Gestapo’ lens

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted February 6, 2026 at 6:00am
Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., has called the Democrats’ newest proposal “a ridiculous Christmas list of demands.”

Another funding extension eyed as partisan immigration standoff deepens

By Valerie Yurk, Aris Folley and Jacob Fulton
Posted February 5, 2026 at 6:16pm
Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker said Thursday he supports a proposal to request $450 billion for defense in a potential next round of budget reconciliation legislation.

Members split on plan to use reconciliation again to boost defense

By Mark Satter
Posted February 5, 2026 at 5:38pm

Capitol Lens | Thaw, humbug!

By Bill Clark
Posted February 5, 2026 at 4:37pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives for a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Senate GOP blocks push for legal action over Epstein law

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted February 5, 2026 at 4:22pm

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