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Mar 19, 2019
On March 19, 1979, C-Span went live with its first public broadcast. We talked to one of its chief executives about its push for transparency in Washington.
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Mar 19, 2019
On March 19, 1979, C-Span went live to a public audience for the first time. We spoke with Susan Swain, who joined the network three years later.
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Mar 19, 2019
C-Span first broadcasted from the U.S. House of Representatives chamber on March 19, 1979, featuring Al Gore when he was a representative from Tennessee.
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Mar 18, 2019
Democrats are at odds over how to fulfill their promise to lower health costs, with centrists opposing the "Medicare for all" plan favored by progressives.
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Mar 18, 2019
Democrats are at odds over how to fulfill their promise to lower health costs, with centrists opposing the "Medicare for all" plan favored by progressives.
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Mar 16, 2019
Those in favor of amending the National Emergencies Act of 1976 remain determined to pursue bipartisan changes in legislation they view as a surrender of congressional power.
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Mar 16, 2019
The groups intend to share a legislative agenda that presses for changes to war authorization measures and an end to the United States' presence in Afghanistan.
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Mar 15, 2019
Today's G.O.P. is burying Reagan's legacy faster than Elizabeth Warren ever could.
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Mar 15, 2019
President Trump rejected legislation on Friday that would have blocked his declaration of a national emergency to fund a wall along the southern border.
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Mar 15, 2019
The loans for his first Senate race, totaling more than $1 million, became an issue during his 2016 race for president.
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Mar 15, 2019
One reader terms the vote to overturn the emergency declaration just "a symbolic slap on the wrist," while another calls those who sided with the president "spineless."
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Mar 15, 2019
The veto will send the legislation back to Congress, which most likely doesn't have enough votes for an override, meaning the declaration of an emergency at the Mexican border will remain in effect.
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Mar 15, 2019
For the first time, over a dozen top aides — from the speaker's national security adviser to the majority whip's chief of staff — are racial minorities.
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Mar 15, 2019
Don't mind that op-ed from last week.
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Mar 14, 2019
President Trump's red wall in the Senate cracks. A bit.
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Mar 14, 2019
In three bipartisan votes, Congress this week rebuked President Trump over Saudi Arabia, blocked his border emergency declaration and demanded a public release of the special counsel's report.
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Mar 14, 2019
There have been multiple bipartisan efforts in the House and Senate to rebuke the president over the wall, Saudi Arabia and the Mueller report.
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Mar 14, 2019
A reader suggests that the Senate majority leader's control of the political process is undemocratic.
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Mar 14, 2019
Birch Bayh, who died on Thursday, produced two successful amendments to the Constitution. But the one closest to his heart — the popular election of the president — fell short.
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Mar 14, 2019
The Times will track every senator's vote live. The vote is expected Thursday afternoon.
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Mar 14, 2019
Twelve Republicans joined Democrats to block Trump's emergency declaration.
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Mar 14, 2019
The Senate voted to overturn President Trump's national emergency declaration, delivering a bipartisan rebuke for what lawmakers in both parties saw as executive overreach.
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Mar 14, 2019
Mr. Bayh, from Indiana, was a force in laws barring sex discrimination, giving 18-year-olds the vote and providing for the removal of a president.
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Mar 14, 2019
Mr. Bayh, from Indiana, was a force in laws barring sex discrimination, giving 18-year-olds the vote and providing for the removal of a president.
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Mar 13, 2019
Senator Mike Lee of Utah hoped that a bill to block future emergency declarations would give Republicans cover to allow President Trump's current declaration. Mr. Trump didn't buy it.
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Mar 13, 2019
The Senate voted to halt U.S. military assistance for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, defying President Trump again for his defense of the kingdom after the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.
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Mar 13, 2019
Ms. Rao, who heads a White House office on regulatory affairs, was confirmed, 53-46, for a seat on the United States Court of Appeals in Washington.
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Mar 13, 2019
Ms. Rao, who heads a White House office on regulatory affairs, was confirmed, 53-46, for a seat on the United States Court of Appeals in Washington.
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Mar 13, 2019
The Democratic Party's crowded field and messy rules could lead to months of infighting and an ugly convention.
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Mar 13, 2019
The party's crowded field and messy rules could lead to months of infighting and an ugly convention.
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Mar 12, 2019
The secretary of health and human services endured hours of bipartisan grilling over the president's budget for 2020, including cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and health research.
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Mar 12, 2019
By all but ruling out impeachment without waiting for the evidence, Speaker Nancy Pelosi may be setting a far-reaching precedent that will empower presidents for decades to come.
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Mar 12, 2019
A conversation with Representative Jerry Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, about how Congress is preparing for the results of the special counsel investigation.
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Mar 12, 2019
Several cuts proposed by the president in his budget seemed to contrast with his own words of support.
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Mar 12, 2019
Several cuts proposed by the president in his budget seemed to contrast with his own words of support.
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Mar 11, 2019
Ms. Pelosi, the House speaker, told The Washington Post that, barring significant new revelations, she opposes impeaching President Trump because it would only further divide the country.
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Mar 11, 2019
The president's budget request for the 2020 fiscal year has little chance of becoming law because Congress control spending, and Democrats control the House.
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Mar 11, 2019
We look at three possible outcomes of the special counsel investigation, which is believed to be wrapping up soon.
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Mar 11, 2019
Contrary to first impressions, Congress has done a decent job standing up for scientific research.
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Mar 10, 2019
The president's budget, to be unveiled Monday, asks for $8.6 billion to build border barriers while increasing military spending and cutting domestic programs.
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Mar 10, 2019
Left unanswered is a question that transcends partisan politics: In an era of provocation, how should Congress respond when its members say hateful or hurtful things?
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Mar 10, 2019
Every House Democrat voted for a broadly worded resolution condemning "hateful expressions of intolerance," but 23 Republicans voted no.
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Mar 09, 2019
Much of the activity on Capitol Hill these days is more akin to trolling on Twitter than tackling national priorities.
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Mar 08, 2019
Why no vote on the House-passed ethics and election reform bill, Mr. Senate Leader? "Because I get to decide what we vote on."
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Mar 08, 2019
Her words were bad. The reaction was worse.
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Mar 08, 2019
The bill, which aims to decrease barriers to the ballot box and clean up corruption in Washington, comes with a raft of amendments — including implicit rebukes of President Trump.
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Mar 08, 2019
The bill, which aims to decrease barriers to the ballot box and clean up corruption in Washington, comes with a raft of amendments — including implicit rebukes of President Trump.
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Mar 08, 2019
Swedish women have achieved near parity with men in government. But gains have slowed, and there are some cautionary tales.
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Mar 07, 2019
No one knows when the special counsel will file his report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, or whether the public will see it. But two publishers aren't waiting.
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Mar 07, 2019
No one knows when the special counsel will file his report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, or whether the public will see it. But two publishers aren't waiting.
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Mar 07, 2019
No one knows when the special counsel will file his report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, or whether the public will see it. But two publishers aren't waiting.
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Mar 07, 2019
Mr. Hall, who served for 34 years, began as a Democrat but switched parties in 2004. He liked to tell of an encounter with the real Bonnie and Clyde.
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Mar 07, 2019
See how each representative voted.
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Mar 07, 2019
Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters on Thursday that the House will vote on a broad resolution condemning all forms of bigotry that does not focus on remarks by Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota.
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Mar 07, 2019
The House plans to vote on Thursday on a broad resolution condemning bigotry, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi tries to defuse tension over Representative Ilhan Omar.
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Mar 07, 2019
The House on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a broad resolution condemning bigotry, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi tried to defuse tension over Representative Ilhan Omar.
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Mar 07, 2019
The House plans to vote on Thursday on a broad resolution condemning bigotry, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi tries to defuse tension over Representative Ilhan Omar.
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Mar 07, 2019
The controversial proposal to combat global warming and economic inequality is transforming the political calculus around climate change.
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Mar 07, 2019
The Minnesota Democrat is bringing Corbynism to the Democratic Party.
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Mar 07, 2019
The measure is intended to show the voters who catapulted Democrats into the majority that they are following through on their campaign pledges.
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Mar 06, 2019
House Democrats, rusty after years in the minority, have stomped on their own messages, have fallen prey to Republican maneuvers and are in battling over punishing Ms. Omar for an anti-Israel remark.
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Mar 06, 2019
Democrats say support for new judge shows Republicans aren't serious about protections for pre-existing conditions as judicial juggernaut rolls on.
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Mar 06, 2019
Aaron Schock spoke at the courthouse in Chicago after federal prosecutors dropped corruption charges against him. The Illinois Republican resigned from Congress in 2015 after coming under fire for lavish spending.
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Mar 06, 2019
Senator Martha McSally, Republican of Arizona, said she was "preyed upon and then raped by a superior officer" while serving in the Air Force. Her testimony came at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing about preventing sexual assault in the military.
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Mar 06, 2019
Mr. Schock, once seen as a rising Republican star, had faced felony corruption charges. Under the agreement, he must repay his campaign committees and the I.R.S.
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Mar 06, 2019
Senator Martha McSally, the first woman in the Air Force to fly in combat, said a superior officer had raped her while she was serving.
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Mar 06, 2019
Senator Martha McSally, the first woman in the Air Force to fly in combat, said a superior officer had raped her while she was serving.
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Mar 06, 2019
Representative Omar has come under scrutiny for comments critical of Israel and its American supporters. The freshman Democrat from Minnesota has become a flashpoint for critics in both parties, and some Democrats have asked if she faces a double standard.
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Mar 06, 2019
The congresswoman and I have a lot in common ??? but not her stance on Israel.
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Mar 06, 2019
How much does Nancy Pelosi have to worry about a left-center split?
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Mar 06, 2019
She owes her majority to the moderates who won Republican seats, but she is in no position to ignore the energy coming from her left.
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Mar 05, 2019
The president can instruct executive branch agencies to shield key evidence if he chooses. But it is unlikely that he alone can shake off the dragnet stretched across Trump world by Democrats.
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Mar 05, 2019
The 1976 statute had flaws before President Trump took office. But his recent emergency declaration gives Congress an incentive to fix it.
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Mar 05, 2019
The House's Democratic leadership, responding to statements by Representative Ilhan Omar deemed hurtful to Jews, will put to a vote a resolution condemning anti-Semitism.
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Mar 05, 2019
The House's Democratic leadership, responding to statements by Representative Ilhan Omar deemed hurtful to Jews, will put to a vote a resolution condemning anti-Semitism.
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Mar 05, 2019
Indicating that he wanted to help fix a dysfunctional Senate, Mr. Merkley said there were other Democrats in the race who recognized the challenges ahead.
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Mar 05, 2019
The Democrats are getting the balance between investigatory zeal and caution just right so far.
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Mar 05, 2019
The South Carolina Republican was once a vehement Trump critic. Now, he's one of the president's most ardent supporters.
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Mar 04, 2019
A disclosure about a troubled surveillance program could upend a pending battle in Congress over security and privacy.
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Mar 04, 2019
Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, conceded that he could not stop the Senate from overturning President Trump's national emergency declaration.
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Mar 04, 2019
The representative's jab that money drives support for Israel earned her reproach, but it also revived a fraught debate in Washington over the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
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Mar 04, 2019
Less than two weeks after regulators found misconduct in November's balloting, state officials scheduled a start-to-finish redo in the Ninth Congressional District.
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Mar 04, 2019
The Senate is poised to rebuke President Trump's national emergency declaration at the southwestern border. The only question: how big the Senate margin will be.
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Mar 04, 2019
The House Judiciary Committee on Monday sent document requests to 81 agencies, individuals and entities tied to President Trump, beginning a broad obstruction and corruption inquiry.
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Mar 04, 2019
The special counsel is said to be preparing to deliver a report on the results of the Russia investigation. What happens next?
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Mar 04, 2019
The parallels between the Mafia and the Trump Organization are striking, and Giuliani perfected the template for prosecuting organized crime.
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Mar 04, 2019
Senator Chuck Schumer says Senate Democrats plan daily floor speeches on climate change, a special select committee and climate legislation to run on next year — and enact in 2021.
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Mar 04, 2019
Senator Chuck Schumer says Senate Democrats plan daily floor speeches on climate change, a special select committee and climate legislation to run on next year — and enact in 2021.
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Mar 03, 2019
Mr. Paul is the fourth Senate Republican to back a measure to block the president's attempt to use emergency powers to fund a wall, appearing to give it the support to pass.
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Mar 03, 2019
Though Mr. Paul did not explicitly announce his vote, his remarks served as the clearest sign he could give Democrats the majority they need to send a resolution to the president.
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Mar 03, 2019
The scion of a newspaper publishing family, he later served in the House representing Westchester County, N.Y., switching from Republican to Democrat.
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Mar 03, 2019
The scion of a newspaper publishing family, he later served in the House representing Westchester County, N.Y., switching from Republican to Democrat.
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Mar 02, 2019
The president said he planned to issue an executive order that would help guarantee free speech on college campuses by putting their federal aid at risk.
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Mar 02, 2019
Michael Cohen plays Renfield to Donald Trump's Dracula.
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Mar 02, 2019
If 2020 produces an anti-Trump wave, Democrats will need plenty of candidates to recapture the Senate. But some of the party's best only want the White House.
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Mar 02, 2019
Race/Related is a weekly newsletter focused on race and identity, with provocative stories from around The New York Times.
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Mar 01, 2019
Finally, something worse than Donald Trump.
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Mar 01, 2019
She spoke of "allegiance to a foreign country," a phrase that her critics said invoked an anti-Semitic trope. Her spokesman called that an "inaccurate reading."
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Mar 01, 2019
The public testimony was sleaze for the sake of pure partisan pleasure, not a serious attempt at uncovering lawbreaking.
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Mar 01, 2019
America produced a corrupt president. We can do better.
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