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Mar 04, 2021
The formal request came only after a disconnect between the chief and the board that oversees her agency, underscoring the bureaucracy and communication breakdowns that have hampered security.
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Mar 04, 2021
Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, used rules that called on legislative clerks to perform an hourslong reading of the 628-page text.
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Mar 04, 2021
After eight years of stops and starts, a new ‘common sense' bill will provide pregnant women with clear protections at work.
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Mar 04, 2021
House Democrats argued for a federal expansion of voting rights on Wednesday as Republicans attempt to limit ballot access in states across the country following the 2020 election.
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Mar 04, 2021
The bill is aimed at combating racial discrimination and excessive use of force in law enforcement. But its prospects are dim in the Senate.
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Mar 04, 2021
Top lawmakers say the Capitol Police Board, which is beholden to House and Senate leaders, needs significant changes after the shocking security failures of Jan. 6.
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Mar 04, 2021
House lawmakers passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act late Wednesday, aimed at combating racial discrimination and excessive use of force. The bill was first passed last summer, before stalling in the Senate.
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Mar 03, 2021
The omnibus voting, ethics and campaign finance bill would roll back barriers to voting enacted by Republican statehouses, but it faces an uphill battle in the Senate.
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Mar 03, 2021
President Biden blessed the plan to lower the income cap for Americans receiving checks of up to $1,400, a crucial concession to moderates whose backing is needed to pass the bill.
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Mar 03, 2021
The omnibus voting, ethics and campaign finance bill would roll back barriers to voting enacted by Republican statehouses, but it faces an uphill battle in the Senate.
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Mar 03, 2021
House Democrats are set to pass the largest federal expansion of voting rights in decades as Republicans try to limit ballot access in states across the country following the 2020 election.
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Mar 03, 2021
President Biden blessed the plan to lower the income cap for Americans receiving checks of up to $1,400, a crucial concession to moderates whose backing is needed to pass the bill.
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Mar 03, 2021
Ronny Jackson, a Republican who enthused that President Donald J. Trump had "incredible genes," sexually harassed a woman on a White House trip and had "meltdowns" with his staff, a report found.
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Mar 03, 2021
Ronny Jackson, a Republican who enthused that President Donald J. Trump had "incredible genes," sexually harassed a woman on a White House trip and had "meltdowns" with his staff, a report found.
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Mar 03, 2021
The omnibus voting, ethics and campaign finance bill would roll back barriers to voting enacted by Republican statehouses, but it faces an uphill battle in the Senate.
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Mar 03, 2021
His 1970 Senate race in Connecticut energized antiwar progressives. He later served two presidents and headed universities in Massachusetts and Washington.
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Mar 03, 2021
Multiple Republicans also signaled their support for Ms. Young, who helped negotiate in 2019 the end to the nation's longest government shutdown.
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Mar 03, 2021
A looming hit to tax revenues puts pressure on Congress to deliver relief.
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Mar 02, 2021
The Senate confirmed Gina Raimondo as President Biden's commerce secretary and Cecilia Rouse as the head of the Council of Economic Advisers.
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Mar 02, 2021
Ms. Rouse's academic research has focused on education, discrimination and the forces that hold some people back in the American economy.
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Mar 02, 2021
The House Ethics Committee is investigating Representative Steven M. Palazzo after a preliminary inquiry found he engaged in a "concerning pattern" of spending campaign funds on his waterfront house.
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Mar 02, 2021
The White House had insisted that it would stand by Neera Tanden as President Biden's top budget official, but it became clear that she did not have the Senate votes to be confirmed.
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Mar 02, 2021
President Biden and top Democrats are working to ensure that frustration over the exclusion of the minimum wage increase in the stimulus plan does not overshadow the success of the package.
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Mar 02, 2021
The F.B.I.'s director, Christopher A. Wray, testified before the Senate on Tuesday about the Capitol riot on Jan. 6. His testimony focused on the emergence of domestic terrorism and the identification of extremist groups involved in the attack.
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Mar 02, 2021
The Board of the Office of Congressional Ethics said there was "substantial reason to believe that Rep. Palazzo converted funds to personal use to pay expenses that were not legitimate."
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Mar 01, 2021
Strengthening the country's highways, bridges and broadband networks has broad popular support, but Washington remains bitterly divided on the details.
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Mar 01, 2021
Strengthening the country's highways, bridges and broadband networks has broad popular support, but Washington remains bitterly divided on the details.
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Mar 01, 2021
Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, discussed how he would push through President Biden's judicial nominees, tackle immigration and address domestic terrorism.
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Mar 01, 2021
In his first public appearance since leaving office, Donald Trump went through, by name, every Republican who supported his second impeachment and called for them to be ousted.
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Mar 01, 2021
A tax on the net worth of America's wealthiest individuals remains popular with voters, but has yet to be embraced by President Biden.
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Mar 01, 2021
On social media, cable networks and even in the halls of Congress, supporters of Donald J. Trump tried to rewrite history in real time, pushing the fiction that left-wing agitators were to blame for the violence on Jan. 6.
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Mar 01, 2021
The Republican senator from Wisconsin is known for regularly promoting fringe theories favored by the right, most recently questioning the fact that pro-Trump rioters attacked the Capitol.
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Feb 27, 2021
The House's near party-line vote of 219 to 212 on Saturday advances President Biden's sweeping pandemic relief package to the Senate.
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Feb 27, 2021
The $1.9 trillion pandemic aid bill narrowly passed the House, but now must maneuver through a procedural and political thicket in the Senate.
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Feb 27, 2021
The $1.9 trillion pandemic aid bill narrowly passed the House, but now must maneuver through a procedural and political thicket in the Senate.
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Feb 26, 2021
As the House prepared to pass President Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus package as early as Friday night, Democrats were searching for a Plan B to raise the minimum wage.
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Feb 26, 2021
Senator Josh Hawley received a standing ovation at the Conservative Political Action Conference when he reminded the crowd that he had objected to certifying Joe Biden's Electoral College victory.
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Feb 26, 2021
The politics of a $15 minimum wage are increasingly muddled, but some Republicans are gravitating toward a higher base pay, citing the economic needs of working-class Americans.
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Feb 26, 2021
At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., on Friday, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas made light of his recent trip to Cancún, Mexico, which drew criticism as he fled the state during a deadly winter storm.
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Feb 25, 2021
John Thune says he earned $6 an hour as a teenager in the 1970s. That would be more than $20 today.
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Feb 25, 2021
The parliamentarian ruled that the provision, which would gradually increase the wage to $15 an hour, violated the strict budgetary rules that limit what can be included in the package.
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Feb 25, 2021
The disputes are reminiscent of the fight surrounding the creation of the independent commission that conducted an inquiry into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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Feb 25, 2021
The struggle to gain support for the longtime Democratic aide whose combative Twitter posts have drawn criticism reflects miscalculations by the White House and its chief of staff, Ron Klain.
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Feb 25, 2021
President Biden's nominee to be assistant secretary of health, who is transgender, and a House member whose daughter is transgender, drew separate attacks from Republican lawmakers.
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Feb 25, 2021
The House narrowly passed the Equality Act on Thursday, a bill that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
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Feb 25, 2021
The bill, which was first passed by the Democratic-led House in 2019, faces a steep climb in the Senate.
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Feb 25, 2021
Neera Tanden had been seen as a strong pick to serve as budget director, but her past tweets became a sticking point with Republicans.
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Feb 25, 2021
Dr. Rachel Levine, President Biden's assistant secretary of health nominee, stands to be the first openly transgender federal official confirmed by the Senate. At a hearing on Thursday, Senator Rand Paul asked Dr. Levine about her stance on "genital mutilation" and minors.
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Feb 25, 2021
Ms. Granholm will oversee an agency that plays a leading role in researching and developing new energy technologies.
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Feb 25, 2021
Every political reform proposal must be judged by its ability to fuel or weaken extremist candidates.
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Feb 24, 2021
A pandemic makes weapons worse.
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Feb 24, 2021
The nominee, William J. Burns, appears likely to win bipartisan support from senators.
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Feb 24, 2021
On Wednesday, Jerome H. Powell testified for a second day to congress about the Federal Reserve's role in limiting inflation and stabilizing the economy.
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Feb 24, 2021
A stripper known as "the Argentine Firecracker," she was at the center of a political sex scandal that rocked Washington in the 1970s.
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Feb 24, 2021
The Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, testified on the semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress before a virtual hearing of the House Financial Services Committee.
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Feb 24, 2021
The vote on President Biden's nominee to head the Interior Department could come down to party lines.
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Feb 24, 2021
Merrick Garland can bring bail reform to the federal justice system.
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Feb 24, 2021
The Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, will testify on the semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress before a virtual hearing of the House Financial Services Committee.
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Feb 24, 2021
Representative Deb Haaland of New Mexico, President Biden's pick to head the Interior Department, was questioned on past remarks as an activist opposing the fossil fuel industry.
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Feb 24, 2021
How Merrick Garland can bring bail reform to the federal justice system.
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Feb 24, 2021
Good luck with that.
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Feb 24, 2021
Depends on which people you talk to. Ezra Klein and Jessica Anderson join Jane Coaston to debate the Senate's revered and reviled tactic.
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Feb 23, 2021
Former Capitol security officials gave sometimes conflicting accounts in the first high-profile public hearing on the attack by a pro-Trump mob.
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Feb 23, 2021
In her closing remarks, Senator Amy Klobuchar said it was "very clear," based on the information revealed during the joint Senate hearing, that the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was planned.
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Feb 23, 2021
Ms. Thomas-Greenfield, a career diplomat, will go the U.N. calling for the United States to re-engage with the global body, while dealing with Republican concerns about her prior remarks on China.
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Feb 23, 2021
Barack Obama asked Democrats to kill the filibuster and pass a voting rights bill because it was the right thing to do. There's a stronger argument.
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Feb 23, 2021
On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell, testified on the Monetary Policy Report, a semiannual report, before a virtual hearing of the Senate Banking Committee.
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Feb 23, 2021
The announcement came just a week after Mr. Perdue, a former senator and Republican, said he had filed paperwork to kick-start a possible new campaign.
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Feb 23, 2021
On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell, will testify on the Monetary Policy Report, a semiannual report, before a virtual hearing of the Senate Banking Committee.
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Feb 23, 2021
If confirmed, he would be the first Latino to serve as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Feb 23, 2021
Barack Obama asked Democrats to kill the filibuster and pass a voting rights bill because it was the right thing to do. There's a stronger argument.
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Feb 23, 2021
If you can't beat them fair and square, tilt the playing field.
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Feb 23, 2021
A Senate hearing on Tuesday will feature the testimony of the top two security officials who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6, as well as police officials who responded to the riot.
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Feb 23, 2021
A Senate hearing on Tuesday will feature the testimony of the top two security officials who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6, as well as police officials who responded to the riot.
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Feb 22, 2021
A hearing on Tuesday will feature the testimony of the top two security officials at the Capitol on Jan. 6, who have since resigned, as well as police officials who responded to the riot.
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Feb 22, 2021
President Biden's nominee for attorney general told the Senate Judiciary Committee that investigating the Capitol riot would be his first priority.
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Feb 22, 2021
On Monday, Judge Merrick B. Garland delivered an emotional response to a question from Senator Cory Booker on how his family's persecution would influence his role in the Justice Department.
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Feb 22, 2021
Two Republican senators said they would not vote to confirm President Biden's nominee to head the budget office, further dimming her chances to secure enough support in an evenly divided chamber.
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Feb 22, 2021
What happens when "All the King's Men" meets "National Lampoon's Vacation"? Nothing good.
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Feb 21, 2021
As violence grew out of control on Jan. 6, the head of the Capitol Police made an urgent request for the National Guard. It took nearly two hours to be approved.
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Feb 21, 2021
Su escapada a Cancún durante la emergencia eléctrica de Texas fue solo el más reciente episodio de una carrera política en la que Cruz ha sido repudiado por los demócratas, y no pocos republicanos.
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Feb 21, 2021
The judge is also expected to affirm his commitment to equal justice under the law and to vow to root out widespread discrimination.
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Feb 21, 2021
The judge is also expected to affirm his commitment to equal justice under the law and to vow to root out widespread discrimination.
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Feb 20, 2021
Su escapada a Cancún durante la emergencia eléctrica de Texas fue solo el más reciente episodio de una carrera política en la que Cruz ha sido repudiado por los demócratas, y no pocos republicanos.
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Feb 20, 2021
Disappointed by down-ballot losses, Democratic interest groups are joining forces to conduct an autopsy of the election results. Republicans do not yet seem willing to reckon with the G.O.P.'s major defeats.
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Feb 19, 2021
Polls show a $1.9 trillion rescue plan polls strongly across the country, including with many Republican voters, despite a scattershot series of attacks from congressional Republicans.
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Feb 19, 2021
The unlikely alliance delivered results they both wanted but fell apart after the election once their political interests diverged.
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Feb 19, 2021
His getaway to Cancún during the Texas power emergency was only the latest episode in a political career that has left Mr. Cruz reviled by Democrats and more than a few Republicans.
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Feb 18, 2021
Lawmakers at a congressional hearing kept coming back to the chief of the stock-trading app with pointed questions and a key argument: "Something very wrong happened here."
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Feb 18, 2021
Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey and Representative Linda Sánchez of California disclosed details of the proposal on Thursday in a news conference.
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Feb 18, 2021
Mr. Dole, 97, represented Kansas in the Senate for more than 25 years, including 11 years as the chamber's Republican leader.
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Feb 18, 2021
There is dignity in work, but we should support more than just work done for wages.
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Feb 18, 2021
Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey and Representative Linda Sánchez of California are expected to disclose details of the proposal in a news conference on Thursday.
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Feb 17, 2021
The Republican leader's calculus was simple: Don't stoke a full-on revolt by Trump supporters by voting to convict the former president, but demonstrate to anti-Trump Republicans that he recognized Mr. Trump's failings. It didn't work.
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Feb 17, 2021
After two decades of failure, advocates for the broadest possible overhaul of the nation's immigration laws are considering a new strategy: pressing for piecemeal legislation.
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Feb 17, 2021
The Republican leader's calculus was simple: Don't stoke a full-on revolt by Trump supporters by voting to convict the former president, but demonstrate to anti-Trump Republicans that he recognized Mr. Trump's failings. It didn't work.
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Feb 17, 2021
Watching the Senate is better than watching reruns.
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Feb 17, 2021
The Republican leader's calculus was simple: Don't stoke a full-on revolt by Trump supporters by voting to convict the former president, but demonstrate to anti-Trump Republicans that he recognized Mr. Trump's failings. It didn't work.
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Feb 17, 2021
Black congressional staff members said the attack brought back memories of how they had tried to avoid people they felt could be prone to racist violence — only to find them at their place of work.
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Feb 17, 2021
Lawmakers debated a bill on Wednesday that would establish a commission to study the persisting impacts of slavery and develop a proposal for remedies.
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