Congress

Lawmakers Aren’t Getting Answers About the Mysterious Drones Flying Over the U.S.

By Emily Kennard

December 11, 2024
Even Some CBC Members Are Starting to Question the Seniority System in Congress

By Tinashe Chingarande and Nuha Dolby

December 11, 2024
House Passes Defense Bill With a Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth

By John T. Seward

December 11, 2024
Democratic Senators Are Hungry for Food Reform. Can They Stomach RFK Jr.?

By Margaret Manto and Shifra Dayak

December 11, 2024
California Republicans Want to Claw Back Funding for Their Own State on High-Speed Rail

By Mark Alfred

December 11, 2024
Mike Johnson Says His Funding Plan Is Smart. Many Republicans Say It’s Only Smart for Mike Johnson.

By Reese Gorman

December 11, 2024
House Task Force Wants to Look at Removing the Secret Service From the Department of Homeland Security

By Katherine Swartz

December 10, 2024
Senators Say There’s Urgency to Find Missing American Journalist Austin Tice in Syria

By John T. Seward

December 10, 2024
Democrats Wonder Whether the Lesson of 2024 Is to Shift Further to the Right on Border Security

By Samuel Larreal

December 10, 2024
The NDAA Will Test Democrats on Transgender Kids’ Rights to Gender-Affirming Care

By John T. Seward

December 9, 2024
The Bulk of Biden’s Infrastructure Spending Will Likely Stay Put Under Trump

By Helen Huiskes and Mark Alfred

December 9, 2024
Frontline Democrats Urge Support for Jared Huffman in Natural Resources Race

By Mark Alfred

December 9, 2024
‘New Leaf’: Republican Moderates Know They Can’t Be Irrelevant Next Congress

By Riley Rogerson

December 6, 2024
‘Who the Hell Knows’ — The Trump-Adams Bond Has New York Democrats Antsy

By Violet Jira

December 6, 2024
DOGE’s Big Dreams Meet Congressional Reality

By Haley Byrd Wilt

December 5, 2024
Assassination Attempt Task Force Concludes With a Fiery Exchange and a Disagreement on the Path Forward

By Katherine Swartz

December 5, 2024
Trump May Blow Up His Trade Deal, but Even Some Democrats Think the Pact’s Labor Protections Will Survive

By Shifra Dayak

December 5, 2024
Republicans Are Back to Taking Trump Seriously, Not Literally, on Tariffs

By Casey Murray

December 5, 2024
Mike Johnson’s Forever Freedom Caucus Problem

By Haley Byrd Wilt

December 5, 2024
‘Postal-Naming Destruction’: The Least Controversial Thing Congress Does Is Becoming Controversial

By Katherine Swartz

December 5, 2024
‘A Lot of Ball Game to Play’: Republicans Have a Plan to Pass Trump’s Agenda. It’s No Sure Thing.

By Riley Rogerson and Reese Gorman

December 4, 2024
‘Charlie Brown Is Not Going After the Football Again’: One Dem’s Quest to Release the Gaetz Ethics Report

By Katherine Swartz

December 3, 2024
Why Some Senate Republicans Don’t Want to Punt a Spending Fight

By Haley Byrd Wilt and Emily Kennard

December 3, 2024
Senate Republicans Acknowledge Pete Hegseth Has a Lot to Explain

By John T. Seward

December 2, 2024
All Senate Republicans Sound Open to Kash Patel. Many Are Enthusiastic About Him.

By Mark Alfred and Helen Huiskes

December 2, 2024
CBC Members See Trump’s Mass Deportation Promises as an Affront to Black Americans

By Tinashe Chingarande

November 27, 2024
Republicans and Democrats Hope for a Crumb of AI Legislation Before Trump Takes Office

By Helen Huiskes and Samuel Larreal

November 27, 2024
Republicans Hope Elon Musk’s Trumpworld Influence Can Boost America’s Space Ambitions

By Mark Alfred

November 27, 2024
Republicans Are All In on Trump’s New Trade War

By Haley Byrd Wilt and Reese Gorman

November 26, 2024
Republicans’ First Anti-Abortion Agenda Item: Defunding Planned Parenthood

By Oriana González

November 26, 2024

Welcome to Crypto’s ‘Special Interest Congress’

By Claire Heddles

November 26, 2024
Congress Is Behind on the Bird Flu Outbreak

By Emily Kennard

November 25, 2024
Freedom Caucus Looks to Chart a New, Even Trumpier Path

By Riley Rogerson

November 25, 2024
‘What Comes Around, Goes Around’: Dems Promise Retribution for the Senate GOP’s New Delay Tactics

By Ben T.N. Mause

November 22, 2024
Obamacare Gave HHS a Lot of Power. Democrats Say They Never Expected RFK Jr.

By Oriana González

November 22, 2024
Inside One Lawmaker’s Quest to Beat the Freshman Room Lottery

By Katherine Swartz

November 21, 2024
Matt Gaetz Might Not Be Allowed to Come Back to Congress Without Another Election, Even If He Wanted To

By Claire Heddles and Reese Gorman

November 21, 2024
‘She’s Gone Away’ — Tulsi Gabbard’s Old Friends in the House Are Baffled by Her Nomination

By Shifra Dayak

November 21, 2024
House Republicans Are Calling For Big Changes at FEMA

By Calen Razor

November 20, 2024
House Ethics Committee Deadlocked on Releasing the Matt Gaetz Report

By Violet Jira and Reese Gorman

November 20, 2024
Republicans Are Leaning Toward a Shutdown Fight in Trump’s First 100 Days

By Katherine Swartz

November 20, 2024
‘Tremendous Staying Power’: Inside Collins and Murkowski’s Battle to Remain Relevant

By Riley Rogerson

November 20, 2024
Steven Horsford Privately Weighed Another Bid for CBC Chair

By Tinashe Chingarande and Violet Jira

November 19, 2024
The House Republicans Who Would Rather Just Bury the Gaetz Report

By Reese Gorman and Mark Alfred

November 19, 2024
John Fetterman Is Open to Supporting Dr. Oz to Oversee Medicare and Medicaid

By Katherine Swartz