On Tuesday evening, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson announced an early adjournment of the chamber, saying there was nothing "time sensitive" to work on. That halted all legislative action until ...

TRUMP: "Within hours of taking the oath of office, I declared a national emergency on our southern border, and I deployed the U.S. military and border patrol to repel the invasion of our country, and ...

The House erupted into applause when a clerk in the chamber announced former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) would officially be stepping down from his Florida seat and would no longer be a member of the ...

When the new Congress convenes Friday, there will be fewer people of color in the delegation than in recent years. The 119th Congress will have 136 people of color, four fewer than the previous U.S.

Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington ...

Jim Banks (center), who went from an Indiana Republican representative to the state's U.S. senator last election, is one of 100 veterans who will take office in the new session of Congress this week. ...

Lawmakers' attempt to shoehorn a cost-of-living raise for themselves into a bill to temporarily fund the government has stirred backlash, but some political experts see merits in the raise—however ...

Congress is once again locked in a battle to prevent the government from entering a partial shutdown over a lack of funding — and some lawmakers are trying to sneak in a last minute Christmas bonus.

Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de El Tiempo Latino. Elon Musk, who has been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to lead a committee to ferret out government waste, wrongly posted to X ...

WASHINGTON — As voters head to the polls for Tuesday's elections, they will also be electing a new Congress. And whichever party wins control of the House and Senate will get to decide how to handle a ...

Mr. Bowie and Ms. Renan are professors at Harvard Law School. They are the authors of the forthcoming book “Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People.” The Supreme Court’s ...

The country’s highest court plays a critical role in all matters of federal law, yet it doesn’t always have the final say. Congress’s ability to check the court often depends on whether the court is ...