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May 22, 2019
In remarks after a meeting with the House Democratic Caucus, Speaker Nancy Pelosi criticized President Trump for his refusal to comply with requests from lawmakers who are seeking more information about details in the Mueller report.
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May 22, 2019
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's accusation was intended to slow the building momentum toward opening an impeachment inquiry among Democrats, but it set off the president.
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May 22, 2019
After Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused him of a "cover-up," the president said he would not work with Democrats until they stopped their "phony investigations."
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May 22, 2019
As President Trump continues to stonewall Congress, House Democrats are split on what to do next.
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May 21, 2019
Lawmakers are divided ahead of intelligence briefings on Capitol Hill focused on rising tensions with Iran and America's deployments to the Middle East.
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May 21, 2019
American officials said Iran had threatened to target missiles at Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure to drive up oil prices and disrupt international trade.
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May 21, 2019
See full results and maps from the Pennsylvania special elections and Philadelphia mayor's race.
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May 21, 2019
See full results and maps from the Pennsylvania special congressional election.
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May 21, 2019
The House Judiciary Committee chairman said his panel would soon hold a contempt vote, while other members were expected to go public with calls for an impeachment inquiry.
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May 21, 2019
Some Progressive Democrats have joined calls for an impeachment inquiry, arguing that it will strengthen the party's efforts to stop President Trump's stonewalling.
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May 21, 2019
The House Judiciary Committee chairman said his panel would soon hold a contempt vote, while other members were expected to go public with calls for an impeachment inquiry.
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May 21, 2019
Representatives André Carson, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, all Muslims, hosted an iftar meal on Monday night at the Capitol Visitor Center.
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May 20, 2019
Representative Justin Amash read the special counsel's findings and saw impeachable offenses.
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May 20, 2019
Washington is a town of partisan herds, and Mr. Amash, a congressman from Michigan, has strayed far outside his.
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May 20, 2019
A judge ruled that Trump's accounting firm must turn over his financial records even as the White House told a former top Trump aide not to show up at a hearing.
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May 20, 2019
Congress needs the full report to do its job.
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May 20, 2019
Congress needs the full Mueller report to do its job of protecting our elections from foreign adversaries.
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May 20, 2019
When I ran against an incumbent senator, I learned the hard way how well insiders stack primaries against challengers.
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May 19, 2019
In an interview, the longtime Democratic leader of the Senate discussed President Trump, his party's primary and its lack of congressional candidates.
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May 18, 2019
Representative Justin Amash, known as a contrarian, accused the president of engaging in "impeachable conduct."
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May 17, 2019
The House passed legislation prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, but the White House and Republican Senate oppose it.
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May 16, 2019
Democrats tied several bills together, trying to hold Republicans to promises to protect coverage of pre-existing conditions and rein in drug costs, but the minority party did not bite.
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May 16, 2019
The House of Representatives must impeach Donald Trump because it's the right thing to do.
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May 16, 2019
Democrats, hitting a presidential stonewall in their efforts to stoke public anger, believe that testimony from Robert S. Mueller III is the only way to clear up certain ambiguities in his report.
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May 16, 2019
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, facing President Trump's blanket denial of documents and witnesses, said Thursday that an impeachment inquiry would aid House investigations.
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May 16, 2019
After the disastrous 2018 midterm elections, Republican women trying to right their political ship are focused on a special election in North Carolina.
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May 15, 2019
Critics say the emphasis on judicial and administration nominations has derailed the Senate's legislative agenda — and diminished the legacy of the chamber.
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May 15, 2019
The service for the six-term Republican senator from Indiana, who died last month, had many of the trappings of a state funeral.
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May 15, 2019
The attorney general has been the target of Democrats' ire for weeks over his handling of the Mueller report.
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May 15, 2019
The letter from the White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, argues that Congress was not a law enforcement body and doesn't have the standing to investigate the president.
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May 15, 2019
Congress, Europe and business leaders can stand in John Bolton's way.
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May 14, 2019
The government asked a judge to halt the proceedings in a case alleging that the president is violating the Constitution by accepting financial benefits from foreign governments.
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May 14, 2019
An early court test for President Trump's vow to stonewall all subpoenas could be the start of a long fight over congressional oversight.
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May 14, 2019
An agreement between Donald Trump Jr. and the Senate Intelligence Committee for a "limited" interview appears to have defused tensions among Senate Republicans
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May 14, 2019
See full results and maps from the North Carolina primaries.
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May 14, 2019
After angering Democratic leaders with her comments about impeaching President Trump, the congresswoman is at the center of a new political storm — over comments about Israel. We spoke with her about the roots of her views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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May 14, 2019
State officials ordered a new election in the Ninth Congressional District, so Republicans must select one of 10 candidates in the last unsettled House race of the midterms.
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May 14, 2019
State officials ordered a new election in the Ninth Congressional District, so Republicans had to pick one of 10 candidates as their nominee in the last unsettled House race of the midterms.
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May 14, 2019
House Democrats are moving aggressively to defend their majority, and rushing to protect the seats they hold in districts that supported the president in 2016.
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May 13, 2019
Allies of Mr. Trump have mounted a campaign to quash a subpoena from the Senate Intelligence Committee, putting intense pressure on its chairman, Richard M. Burr.
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May 13, 2019
The representative from New York inspired a comic book anthology that arrives in stores on Wednesday.
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May 13, 2019
The police reported scattered incidents of violence and voter intimidation as Filipinos began voting Monday to decide control of the Senate.
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May 13, 2019
The police reported scattered incidents of violence and voter intimidation as Filipinos began voting Monday to decide control of the Senate.
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May 13, 2019
The police reported scattered incidents of violence and voter intimidation as Filipinos began voting Monday to decide control of the Senate.
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May 13, 2019
The police reported scattered incidents of violence and voter intimidation as Filipinos began voting Monday to decide control of the Senate.
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May 12, 2019
President Trump's free rein from political norms puts the United States at risk.
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May 12, 2019
From Blue Dogs to Green New Dealers, they're not making it easy.
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May 11, 2019
The Senate has been one of the last bulwarks against the president's strongman rule. That may not last.
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May 11, 2019
As history has shown with the Watergate and Iran-contra scandals, such investigations can gain legitimacy only when members of the president's own party support them.
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May 11, 2019
The Democrats running the House are changing things, including sometimes omitting words from the swearing-in oath, and some Republicans are not pleased.
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May 10, 2019
"He will come at some point," said Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. "If necessary, we'll subpoena him."
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May 10, 2019
If Democrats don't do something about it, winning the presidential election in 2020 won't be enough.
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May 09, 2019
The president seems eager to force the hand of Democrats who are investigating him as if they were conducting an impeachment inquiry without actually calling it that.
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May 09, 2019
Is President Trump daring the Democrats to impeach him?
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May 09, 2019
Democrats in Congress need to deploy all their powers, including impeachment.
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May 09, 2019
How to destroy checks and balances.
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May 09, 2019
A "constitutional crisis" in the U.S.
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May 09, 2019
A constitutional crisis in the U.S.
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May 09, 2019
She's kind of like Ann Richards crossed with Barbara Bush — with a Purple Heart and a Distinguished Flying Cross.
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May 09, 2019
M.J. Hegar's kind of like Ann Richards crossed with Barbara Bush — with a Purple Heart and a Distinguished Flying Cross.
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May 09, 2019
The president also said he was "pretty surprised" his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was subpoenaed to testify before the Senate about contacts with Russians in the 2016 campaign.
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May 09, 2019
The president also said he was "pretty surprised" his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was subpoenaed to testify before the Senate about contacts with Russians in the 2016 campaign.
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May 09, 2019
During her press conference Thursday on Capitol Hill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi discussed how the House may move to hold Attorney General William P. Barr in contempt of Congress.
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May 09, 2019
The standoff between the Trump administration and Congress is approaching a constitutional impasse. We consider what could happen next.
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May 09, 2019
A new political action committee, the Service First Women's Victory Fund, will raise money for Democratic candidates with national security backgrounds.
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May 09, 2019
And are we headed for a constitutional crisis?
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May 08, 2019
House Democrats, frustrated by President Trump's blanket refusal to cooperate, seek new ways to compel White House compliance as impeachment looms.
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May 08, 2019
The latest revelations about President Trump's past tax reports underscore the importance of examining his more recent returns.
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May 08, 2019
A decade of red ink for Donald Trump.
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May 08, 2019
There is no good reason to put yet another man in the White House.
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May 08, 2019
Representative Elijah E. Cummings, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, wanted to move slowly on impeachment. Now he, like many other senior Democrats, has lost his patience.
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May 07, 2019
What were once isolated skirmishes over congressional inquiries are turning into an all-out war.
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May 07, 2019
We don't need the Export-Import Bank, which pads the profits of politically connected corporations on the taxpayer's dime, but it's back anyway.
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May 07, 2019
By refusing to comply, the president threatens to erode the Constitution's system of checks and balances.
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May 07, 2019
During a Senate hearing, the F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray, defended the bureau against an accusation by the attorney general that agents spied on the Trump campaign during its Russia inquiry.
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May 07, 2019
"The special counsel's finding is clear: Case closed," Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, declared in a speech that was quickly criticized by top Democrats.
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May 07, 2019
The president deserves his day in court. But the American people deserve that day to come quickly.
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May 07, 2019
The president deserves his day in court. But the American people deserve that day to come quickly.
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May 07, 2019
A proposed law would make big companies determine whether their algorithms discriminate, but it's lacking in some big ways.
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May 06, 2019
Enough with William Barr's obfuscation.
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May 06, 2019
Mr. Mnuchin said that the request "lacks a legitimate legislative purpose."
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May 06, 2019
Mr. Mnuchin said that the request "lacks a legitimate legislative purpose."
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May 06, 2019
A showdown between the executive and legislative branches has ratcheted up, as President Trump and his administration have resisted Democrats' oversight efforts on multiple fronts.
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May 05, 2019
No, it's not for building the wall.
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May 04, 2019
Mr. Enzi, 75, who has held his seat since 1997, said he planned to spend the remainder of his term focusing on budget overhaul.
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May 04, 2019
The speaker's "coldblooded" plan for defeating President Trump, who she worries would challenge a slim Democratic victory in 2020, focuses on moderate voters and avoiding a protracted impeachment bid.
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May 03, 2019
Three high-profile potential candidates bowed out of running next year, making the road to Democratic control of the Senate that much steeper.
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May 03, 2019
House Democrats, seeking a deal with Attorney General William P. Barr, offered a compromise on the full Mueller report that would keep some parts secret.
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May 02, 2019
Here is how President Trump's vow to thwart House Democrats' attempts to carry out oversight investigations could play out.
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May 02, 2019
In the Trump-Russia investigation, the special counsel did not have the leverage of physical evidence.
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May 02, 2019
The House passed a bill on Thursday that would block President Trump from quitting the Paris Agreement on climate change.
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May 02, 2019
One of them acted honorably but naively. The other didn't.
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May 01, 2019
Ms. Tauscher had a career on Wall Street before being elected to the House as a Democrat. She later helped negotiate a nuclear arms treaty.
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Apr 30, 2019
Stephen Moore's chance to be confirmed to the Federal Reserve dwindled after multiple Republican senators began to publicly question whether he would have enough votes if nominated.
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Apr 30, 2019
President Trump and Deutsche Bank had a long, symbiotic relationship. Now, Mr. Trump is racing to prevent the bank from sharing his financial information with Congress.
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Apr 30, 2019
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, said there was "good will" during their meeting with President Trump on infrastructure spending, which yielded an agreement to pursue a $2 trillion plan.
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Apr 30, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blazes in this exciting documentary about four female candidates who sought to make history in the 2018 midterm elections.
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Apr 30, 2019
See full results and maps from the North Carolina special primaries.
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Apr 30, 2019
Ms. Abrams said she would not challenge Senator David Perdue, one of President Trump's chief allies in Congress. She had been courted aggressively by national Democrats to run.
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Apr 30, 2019
It starts, but doesn't end, with ditching Stephen Moore.
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