The U.S. Congress considers roughly 5,000 bills and resolutions each year, but only a small percent of those become law.

In his first week back in office, Trump wasted no time shattering norms – from a blizzard of transformative executive orders, ...

President Donald Trump’s administration issued a memo Monday ordering all federal assistance to be temporarily paused, as ...

The median age of voting members of the House of Representatives is now 57.5 years, while the Senate's median age is 64.7 ...

Overall, 139 of today’s senators and representatives identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian American or Native American.

Representative Sarah McBride did not run for Congress emphasizing L.G.B.T.Q. issues. But since her arrival in Washington, her ...

Congress more often constrains an administration to which it is ideologically opposed; Trump comes to power this time with a ...

The Laken Riley Act is set to be the first bill Trump signs into law after it passed the House and Senate with bipartisan ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing a plan to explicitly use revenue from higher tariffs on imported goods to help pay for ...

Proxy voting in Congress has been the subject of fierce political and ... short-term for the birth of her baby but ultimately ...

As lawmakers continue to prepare for using budget reconciliation to enact their priorities, some continue to suggest that they should use a “current policy” baseline for the budget resolution, ...