CQ Roll Call Staff

Nita M. Lowey, a veteran legislator from New York who served 16 terms until her retirement at the end of the 116th Congress, died on Saturday. The cause was breast cancer, her family announced. She was 87. Lowey, a Democrat, […]

President Donald Trump fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, ending months of speculation about the top military officer’s job security. Trump announced his decision in a post on Truth

Senate Republicans finally pushed through their blueprint for the first phase of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda early Friday morning, after an all-night session that exposed some fissures in their ranks on issues such as cuts to health care and

Posted December 29, 2024 at 7:36pm Former President Jimmy Carter died Sunday at his home in Georgia at the age of 100. Roll Call delves into its photo archive to remember the 39th president’s time in the public spotlight. Carter

Former Rep. Billy Long, R-Mo., who retired after losing a 2022 Senate bid, got the nod from President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday to be his nominee for IRS commissioner. Long served for six terms in the House and left Congress

President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that Brooke L. Rollins, the CEO of the America First Policy Institute and a senior aide during his first administration, was his choice to become Agriculture secretary. Rollins was director of the Domestic Policy Council

Posted November 22, 2024 at 8:42pm President-elect Donald Trump said Friday he would nominate Scott Turner, a White House aide during his first term, to become secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Turner was executive director of the White House

House Republican factions agreed Wednesday night on a change to the chamber’s rules that would make it tougher to oust the speaker in the manner that ex-Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., lost his job last year, and after some threatened the

Former Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., who served nearly three decades on Capitol Hill, culminating in his chairmanship of the Senate Banking Committee, has died at the age of 77. His longtime former chief of staff, Drey Samuelson, announced Johnson’s death

In a late Friday night missive to congressional leaders, President Joe Biden wrote that the Small Business Administration’s disaster loan program is expected to run out of funding before Congress reconvenes after the November elections. The SBA needs $1.6 billion