Back-to-back retirement announcements last week from a Republican representative and senator represented a victory for ...

Congress is no longer in the business of thoughtful legislating. Its role has been reduced to putting political points on the ...

The Republican package would slash taxes, boost spending on immigration enforcement and the military, and impose steep cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and clean energy funding.

Nearly a dozen House Republicans were holdouts for over 24 hours, but all but two eventually caved. Here's how it happened.

President Donald Trump's major tax cut and spending bill passed the House on Thursday, but not without some Republican ...

Jeffries took the House floor in the early hours of Thursday to use his “magic minute" speech to blast the bill Trump has ...

The U.S. Navy replenishment oiler previously named for gay rights leader and Navy veteran Harvey Milk has a new moniker: the USNS Oscar V. Peterson.

Robert Smalls was a 22-year-old mulatto slave born on April 5, 1839, behind his owner’s city house at 511 Prince Street in Beaufort, S.C. His mother, Lydia, served in the house but grew up in the ...

Representative Suzan DelBene "Trump’s strike against Iran was unconstitutional. Under the Constitution, Congress has the explicit power to declare war and authorize military force.

Rep. Paul Evans, D-Monmouth, said he never wanted to introduce legislation like House Bill 3954, but that he considered it necessary to preserve longstanding traditions and legal precedent.

State Reps Ann Bollin, Jason Woolford, and Sen. Lana Theis this week attended the White House’s State Leadership Conference, where they met directly with senior federal officials to discuss ...