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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)

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This week: DHS faces possible shutdown ahead of congressional recess

House takes up voter ID legislation

By Niels Lesniewski and Valerie Yurk
Posted February 9, 2026 at 6:15am

Chairman Mark Amodei attends a House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on May 6, 2025.

Congress

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

By Aidan Quigley
Posted February 6, 2026 at 3:35pm
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.

Campaigns

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
The proposed Virginia map targets the districts of Republican Reps. Rob Wittman, left, Jen Kiggans and John McGuire.

Campaigns

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

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted February 6, 2026 at 1:26pm
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.

Video

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

2026 State of Government Affairs

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted February 4, 2026 at 12:15pm
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

Read the latest issue

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 23, 2020 at 11:36am
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

At the Races: ICE breaker

By Mary Ellen McIntire, Daniela Altimari and Niels Lesniewski
Posted February 5, 2026 at 4:04pm
President Donald Trump speaks during the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton on Thursday. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump roasts Democratic lawmakers, mocks Chip Roy at Prayer Breakfast

By John T. Bennett
Posted February 5, 2026 at 12:12pm
Clockwise from top left: former Rep. Tom Malinowski, former Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way, organizer Analilia Mejia and Essex County Commissioner Brendan Gill are among the candidates seeking the Democratic nomination in the special election for New Jersey's 11th District. (Courtesy Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call; Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images; Analilia Mejia for New Jersey/Facebook; Brendan Gill for NJ/Facebook)

What to know about the New Jersey special election primary for Sherrill’s seat

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted February 5, 2026 at 5:00am
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., left, listens to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speak during a news conference Wednesday. Also pictured is Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the House Homeland Security panel's top Democrat.

Democratic leaders pitch wish list ahead of DHS funding deadline

By Niels Lesniewski and Valerie Yurk
Posted February 4, 2026 at 4:39pm, Updated at 10:31pm
Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk is not seeking reelection this year.

Georgia’s Barry Loudermilk is latest House Republican to retire

By Daniela Altimari and Nina Heller
Posted February 4, 2026 at 7:15pm
Former Rep. Lee H. Hamilton, right, who served as vice chair of the 9/11 commission, is pictured at a 2010 hearing with the panel's former chairman, Thomas H. Kean.

Hamilton seen, then and now, as embodying ideal of bipartisanship

By John M. Donnelly
Posted February 4, 2026 at 6:50pm
Chair Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and ranking member Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., talk before the start of a Senate Commerce Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Dec. 17, 2025.

Cruz’s satellite licensing bill faces longer delay

By Allison Mollenkamp
Posted February 4, 2026 at 6:23pm
A Washington, D.C., flag in a Capitol Hill neighborhood last fall. Republicans in Congress are moving ahead with an effort to override D.C.’s tax code decoupling.

House advances measure to block DC tax code decoupling 

By Nina Heller
Posted February 4, 2026 at 5:06pm
From left, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif.; Luke Ganger and Brent Ganger arrive for the bicameral public forum on tactics by agents of the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday. Brent and Luke are brothers of Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in January in Minneapolis.

As DHS spending debate ramps up anew, a focus on enforcement’s impact

By Chris Johnson
Posted February 4, 2026 at 4:20pm
Voters stand in long lines to cast their ballots in the Proposition 50 special election on redistricting in Garden Grove, Calif., on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025.

Supreme Court refuses to overturn new California districts

By Michael Macagnone
Posted February 4, 2026 at 2:21pm

Capitol Lens | Remembering Rosa Parks

By Bill Clark
Posted February 4, 2026 at 1:47pm
In his role as vice chair of the 9/11 Commission, former Rep. Lee H. Hamilton was an advocate for streamlining oversight of national security.

Lee Hamilton, Indiana Democrat and vice chair of 9/11 Commission, dies at 94

By Jason Dick
Posted February 4, 2026 at 1:02pm
Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley, left, and ranking member Richard J. Durbin conduct a confirmation hearing on July 30, 2025.

Durbin urges Section 702 hearing with administration officials

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted February 4, 2026 at 12:52pm
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina speaks to the press alongside President Donald Trump and lawmakers in the Oval Office on Tuesday.

‘De-escalate’: Trump team’s moves suggest it’s not part of the plan

By John T. Bennett
Posted February 4, 2026 at 12:23pm
Harry Dunn, center, greets fellow former Capitol Police officer Winston Pingeon, left, and former prosecutor Brendan Ballou at a hearing last month to mark the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn running for Hoyer’s seat

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted February 4, 2026 at 12:19pm

Capitol Ink | Midterm meal

By R.J. Matson
Posted February 4, 2026 at 7:00am
The U.S. Capitol dome is seen Tuesday over snow and ice piled near the Capitol Reflecting Pool more than a week after a storm passed over the area. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Money isn’t enough to save incumbents in wave elections

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted February 3, 2026 at 5:53pm
Rep. Adriano Espaillat, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, D-N.M., left, conduct a rally on Tuesday at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with House Democratic colleagues to call for the firing of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

House Democrats losing an opportunity on immigration

By Steven Pearlstein
Posted February 3, 2026 at 5:21pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Rules and Administration Chair Mitch McConnell are facing pressure to advance a voter ID bill.

Top Republicans throw cold water on ‘nationalizing’ elections 

By Nina Heller
Posted February 3, 2026 at 5:06pm

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