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Sep 17, 2025
Senator Bill Cassidy, the chairman of the health committee, said Americans should not trust a possible change to the childhood vaccine guidance.
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Sep 17, 2025
In using the nuclear option, John Thune has turned a Senate precedent on its head, defying his reputation as an institutionalist.
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Sep 17, 2025
Insurers suggested they would still cover routine shots even if a C.D.C. panel tried to limit them, as an influential senator warned against new restrictions.
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Sep 17, 2025
A political scientist explains why doing nothing right now is probably the best strategy for congressional Democrats.
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Sep 17, 2025
The senator, Markwayne Mullin, quickly backtracked after pressing the now former director, Susan Monarez, on an exchange with the health secretary.
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Sep 17, 2025
Dr. Susan Monarez told senators at a committee hearing on Wednesday that the health secretary had hurled false and hurtful accusations about the nation's health agency.
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Sep 17, 2025
Plus, Robert Redford's legacy.
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Sep 17, 2025
A political scientist explains why doing nothing right now is probably the best strategy for congressional Democrats.
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Sep 16, 2025
The F.B.I. director has come under withering attack in recent days, but with Republicans backing him, the proceedings fell into a familiar partisan groove that appeared to play to his strengths.
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Sep 16, 2025
Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, butted heads with Democratic senators during a Judiciary Committee hearing, where lawmakers questioned him about his missteps in recent months.
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Sep 16, 2025
The legislation is part of a package that House Republicans are pushing to impose more federal control over the District in line with President Trump's demands.
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Sep 16, 2025
After allowing a stopgap spending bill to move forward earlier this year, Democrats are under intense pressure not to do so again.
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Sep 16, 2025
House Republicans extended a maneuver they engineered earlier in the year that effectively strips Congress of the power to disapprove of President Trump's tariffs.
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Sep 16, 2025
In her 16 years on Capitol Hill, she emerged as a champion of women's rights, especially equal pay for comparable work.
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Sep 16, 2025
The speaker put forward a stopgap bill to fund the government past Sept. 30, saying there was "zero chance" he would add concessions Democrats have demanded.
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Sep 16, 2025
The voluble former senator, now retired from politics, appears to miss the arena and is mulling a return to it.
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Sep 16, 2025
Senate Republicans confirmed President Trump's nomination of Stephen Miran, a top White House economic adviser, as a governor for the Federal Reserve on Monday.
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Sep 15, 2025
Only a handful of Democrats and none of the party's top leaders attended the ceremony, an outpouring of praise and mourning for the right-wing activist, who was assassinated last week.
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Sep 15, 2025
Arnold Schwarzenegger issued his first public rebuke since Gov. Gavin Newsom placed a gerrymander plan on the ballot.
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Sep 15, 2025
The Senate voted to install one of President Trump's top economic advisers at the central bank, opening the door for him to cast a vote at this week's meeting to set interest rates.
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Sep 15, 2025
Publicolor, a nonprofit, gets teenagers painting. Usually they work in schools, but for a project downtown, they have a different canvas.
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Sep 15, 2025
Micah Lasher, a state lawmaker, enters what is expected to be a crowded Democratic field competing for Representative Jerrold Nadler's congressional seat in Manhattan.
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Sep 14, 2025
Representative Michael McCaul, an 11-term Texas Republican who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced on Sunday that he would retire from Congress.
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Sep 14, 2025
Private meetings and longtime loyalties helped push what began as a something of a Democratic bluff into a full-fledged counteroffensive against President Trump.
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Sep 13, 2025
At an annual fund-raiser in Iowa, the Maryland Democrat said he supported Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City and said people were sick of "spineless politics."
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Sep 12, 2025
The Missouri Senate passed new borders on Friday that Republicans believe would benefit their party by splitting up the district of Representative Emanuel Cleaver, a Democrat.
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Sep 12, 2025
Democrats should go to the ramparts on three issues, with a popular solution for each.
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Sep 11, 2025
Democratic and Republican representatives began arguing after Speaker Mike Johnson called for a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk on Wednesday.
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Sep 11, 2025
Republicans are signaling a new openness to extending health subsidies as Democrats suggest they want health care concessions to keep the government open.
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Sep 11, 2025
Senate Republicans used what is known as the nuclear option to break a Democratic blockade of President Trump's nominees, weakening Congress's vetting role.
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Sep 11, 2025
The killing of the right-wing activist deepened lawmakers' fears of violence directed against them, and the toxic discourse that has fed such threats.
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Sep 11, 2025
The request, made by a right-wing parliamentary member, was rejected on account of protocol.
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Sep 11, 2025
Republicans are signaling a new openness to extending health subsidies as Democrats suggest they want health care concessions to keep the government open.
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Sep 11, 2025
Ms. Menendez, the wife of former Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, said her husband had led her astray.
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Sep 11, 2025
The wife of former Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat already in prison for taking bribes, faces punishment on Thursday.
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Sep 10, 2025
Three Republican senators sent a letter to Meta's chief executive on Wednesday asking him to respond to whistle-blower allegations over security flaws.
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Sep 10, 2025
Though it failed, Mr. Schumer's proposal brought the contentious debate over the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files to the Senate, which has largely avoided it.
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Sep 10, 2025
The chair of the Finance Committee sent the agency a letter inquiring about allegations that it had put the confidential personal information of Americans at risk.
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Sep 10, 2025
At a heated committee session on bills exerting more federal control of Washington, the 88-year-old delegate sat quietly, reading with difficulty from a script.
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Sep 10, 2025
After a moment of silence to honor Charlie Kirk, Republicans and Democrats began shouting partisan insults at each other.
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Sep 10, 2025
For the third year in a row, House Republicans pushed through a Pentagon policy measure that included conservative policy dictates.
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Sep 10, 2025
A bipartisan group in Congress has increased scrutiny of the fire engine industry. Firefighters complain that escalating prices and yearslong delays are straining public safety resources.
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Sep 09, 2025
James Walkinshaw will fill a seat left open by the death of his former boss, Gerald Connolly, and shrink the Republicans' majority in the chamber.
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Sep 09, 2025
The Republican response to the release of a suggestive note to Jeffrey Epstein apparently signed by President Trump followed a familiar pattern of deflection.
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Sep 09, 2025
Republicans want to redraw congressional districts and increase their party's chances of flipping a seat long held by a Democrat in the Kansas City area.
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Sep 09, 2025
Readers respond to a column by Ezra Klein about what the Democrats should do. Also: Florida and vaccines; no award for Tom Hanks at West Point.
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Sep 09, 2025
Supporters are on the brink of collecting the 218 signatures to proceed, but House Republican leaders and the White House are trying to stop it.
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Sep 09, 2025
Get live results and maps from the 2025 Virginia special congressional election.
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Sep 09, 2025
Republicans want to redraw congressional districts and increase their party's chances of flipping a seat long held by a Democrat in the Kansas City area.
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Sep 09, 2025
Rankling national security experts, the chipmaker has stepped up attacks on lawmakers who are pushing restrictions.
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Sep 09, 2025
State Representative James Talarico, who is studying to become a Presbyterian pastor, has sparred with Fox News hosts and bantered with Joe Rogan. Now he wants Senator John Cornyn's seat.
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Sep 08, 2025
Republicans said the maneuver to change the Senate's rules, the latest step that would weaken the filibuster, was necessary to overcome Democratic obstruction of President Trump's nominees.
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Sep 08, 2025
Two senators have begun an investigation into whether government officials could have done more to stop the Los Angeles fire. President Trump and other Republicans have blamed Democratic leaders for the disaster.
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Sep 08, 2025
Representative Sara Jacobs, Democrat of California, said her experience planning for a future pregnancy inspired her to write a bill to expand coverage of fertility treatments.
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Sep 07, 2025
He left the House of Representatives while struggling with a crack addiction, his political career seemingly over. Actually, it had just begun.
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Sep 07, 2025
By promoting suspicions about the institutions he oversees, critics say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is jeopardizing public health. He says he is pursuing transparency.
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Sep 07, 2025
By promoting suspicions about the institutions he oversees, critics say Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is jeopardizing public health. He says he is pursuing transparency.
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Sep 07, 2025
On national security, spending and oversight, the president continues to undercut the legislative branch, and Republicans in charge have done little to stop him.
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Sep 07, 2025
A new crop of candidates has turned away from the aspirational "American dream" message of campaigns past and is leaning into how difficult life can be for working people — including them.
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Sep 07, 2025
Democrats aren't powerless, and they don't have to enable autocracy.
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Sep 06, 2025
On this week's round table, the G.O.P's shutdown spiral.
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Sep 06, 2025
On this week's round table, the G.O.P's shutdown spiral.
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Sep 06, 2025
On this week's round table, three Opinion writers discuss how to fight Trump's takeover.
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Sep 05, 2025
The Trump administration failed to tell lawmakers about a 2019 SEAL Team 6 incursion into North Korean territory that went awry.
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Sep 05, 2025
The Trump administration failed to tell lawmakers about a 2019 SEAL Team 6 incursion into North Korean territory that went awry.
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Sep 05, 2025
Two Democrats on the House China committee noted the use of A.I. by Chinese companies as a weapon in information warfare.
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Sep 05, 2025
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced questions after a tumultuous few weeks.
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Sep 04, 2025
Republicans and Democrats agree they will need a temporary measure to fund the government past Sept. 30, but have yet to come to terms on what it should look like.
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Sep 04, 2025
The Republican rift over whether to demand greater transparency in the case has once again highlighted a gender divide in the male-dominated party.
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Sep 04, 2025
Senator Mark Warner's visit was classified and not intended to be publicized. It was to include a meeting with the head of the agency and a briefing on the agency's use of artificial intelligence.
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Sep 03, 2025
The proposed 211-mile industrial road over pristine land would allow a mining company to reach a copper deposit. Critics say it would destroy a fragile environment.
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Sep 03, 2025
Jeffrey Epstein's accusers went to the Capitol to ask Congress to get behind their calls for more disclosures, but momentum for a bill demanding it appeared to stall.
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Sep 03, 2025
Attorney General Ken Paxton is waging "legal war" against Beto O'Rourke, a possible Democratic rival, threatening jail and an investigation that could bankrupt his organization.
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Sep 03, 2025
Top campaign officials told House Republicans they should rebrand the measure the president dubbed the "One Big Beautiful Bill," in a nod to its unpopularity with voters.
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Sep 03, 2025
The former senator has been out of office for more than 15 years, but his last name is synonymous with Republican politics in a state where party leaders see a chance to flip a seat.
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Sep 03, 2025
Dan Kleban enters a crowded Democratic primary as party leaders wait for Maine's Democratic governor, Janet Mills, who is "seriously considering" a run for Senate.
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Sep 02, 2025
Representative Jerrold Nadler's departure is still 16 months away, but Democrats are already testing the waters in what is expected to be a highly contested race.
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Sep 01, 2025
Representative Jerrold Nadler, the ex-House Judiciary chairman who helped lead President Trump's impeachments, will not seek re-election in New York.
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Aug 31, 2025
Democrats would probably need to win the national popular vote by two or three percentage points to retake the House next year.
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Aug 31, 2025
Republicans and Democrats in Congress are wary of the potential consequences of President Trump's drive to redraw districts.
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Aug 30, 2025
A war hero turned politician, he was first elected to the House in 1990 but stepped down in 2005 after pleading guilty to tax evasion and conspiracy to commit bribery.
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Aug 29, 2025
Following Texas, Gov. Mike Kehoe called a special legislative session to redraw his state's Congressional district lines to boost Republicans.
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Aug 29, 2025
The White House notified Congress that it plans to use a legally untested maneuver to circumvent lawmakers and claw back more money for foreign aid programs.
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Aug 29, 2025
Democrats still face an uphill fight to win in Iowa and retake the majority in the closely divided Senate.
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Aug 28, 2025
The three-time All-Star, who hit more than 400 home runs during his career, says he hopes to fill the seat held by Representative Chip Roy, a Republican.
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Aug 26, 2025
Ms. Menendez was convicted of taking bribes of gold, cash and a Mercedes in exchange for political favors dispensed by her husband, a former New Jersey senator.
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Aug 26, 2025
He will continue to oversee an office that often handles cases involving violent drug cartels and transnational repression. In making the choice, the judges avoided a political fight.
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Aug 26, 2025
When Republicans repealed a Biden-era "access and equity" grant program for transportation, they canceled funding for projects in some of their own districts.
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Aug 26, 2025
Threatened by the president with political retribution, Republicans agreed to defund public broadcasting, imperiling a lifeline of communication in rural Alaska.
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Aug 25, 2025
President Trump told Lisa Cook that he had found sufficient cause "to remove you from your position." Her dismissal could touch off a landmark legal battle over the Fed's independence.
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Aug 25, 2025
"I have determined that there is sufficient cause to remove you from your position," Mr. Trump said in a letter. Her dismissal threatened to touch off a landmark legal battle over the Fed's independence.
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Aug 25, 2025
Representative James E. Comer of Kentucky demanded financial records, video recordings and information on meetings with famous people.
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Aug 25, 2025
A G.O.P. request for information and interviews comes amid Trump administration claims that crime in the capital is worse than it appears.
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Aug 25, 2025
Few are happy with how Congress is performing these days, including its members, with increasingly unpleasant jobs. It's time to recruit better talent.
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Aug 22, 2025
Nadine and Robert Menendez, a former senator, were convicted of taking bribes. Seeking leniency, Ms. Menendez's relatives and friends agree she is "not a criminal mastermind."
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Aug 22, 2025
As President Trump asks Republican-led states to redraw congressional maps, some Indiana conservatives are pushing back. "They should leave it alone," one legislator said.
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Aug 22, 2025
The G.O.P. chairman of a key House panel was forced to issue the subpoena after a few Republicans banded together with Democrats to push it through.
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Aug 22, 2025
As a handful of states have made moves and begun discussing redrawing their maps, here's what's at stake.
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Aug 22, 2025
With the United States hosting two sets of Olympic Games and the World Cup, lawmakers are pressing for the State Department to step up its sports diplomacy.
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Aug 22, 2025
Gerrymandering is a form of cheating. And it is preventable.
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