Long the most critical branch of the federal government, Congress has ceded much of its own institutional power. Here's how ...

The deal is now being debated by House lawmakers, where a final vote could be expected as early as Wednesday evening. So what's in the deal now? Let's VERIFY.

With the shutdown ball squarely in the Senate’s court, a fair question feels timelier than ever: Is the United States Senate what our Founders envisioned it to be — or has it fallen short of their ...

Whether “willfully” in 2 U.S.C. § 192 – which states that anyone who is “summoned … by the authority of either House of ...

Federal lawmakers can protect the American public by passing a new law to fully implement the Constitution’s oldest ...

A Republican measure to keep the government funded until Nov. 21 stumbled in the Senate after clearing the House, leaving lawmakers without a clear path forward to avoid a funding lapse at the end of ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and Newsom ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), who sits on the Senate Finance Committee, has been outspoken in her frustration with President Donald Trump's blanket tariffs. In Spokane on Thursday ...

Congress is cowed; that’s one supposedly coequal branch of government down. But federal courts are proving more resistant to Donald Trump’s trampling of laws and the Constitution. Now, just two months ...