Jim Saksa

There’s an old proverb that fits Derek Kilmer: If you love something, sometimes you have to let it go. The Washington Democrat led the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress — better known on the Hill as “ModCom” or […]

Prospects for getting a federal press source shield measure enacted this year appear to be waning, even though the bill already sailed through the House and has just one public opponent in the Senate. Supporters of the bill, which would

Like so many others, they hatched their plot at a bar. Meeting on a work trip, Harley Adsit, a staffer for Georgia Republican Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter, and Sarah Geary, a media manager at Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions,

Among the white marble statesmen and bronze war heroes who stand silent sentinel through the halls of the Capitol, a musician arrived Tuesday. It was Johnny Cash, the “Man in Black” who built his fame singing about, and for, outlaws

The House Rules Committee held a Member Day hearing Thursday, allowing the rank-and-file to propose changes to how the chamber conducts its business — and in one case, to make a personal announcement.  “I have a current vested interest,” Rep.

Standing in front of construction workers in neon vests and hard hats amid pallets of lumber on Wednesday, lawmakers hammered the first nails into the 2025 inauguration platform. The quadrennial event kicks off the real work of preparing for about

Congressional Gold Medals were bestowed on a group of Black women who dared to boldly go where no woman had gone before: the labs and offices of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration where pioneering mathematicians and engineers figured out

Attendees at Tuesday night’s first annual Congressional Record performance, which saw members of Congress join professional musicians on stage to play before a captive  audience of staffers and lobbyists, were reminded that all politics are vocal. It turns out that

After months of negotiations, workers in two House offices announced Tuesday that they have signed memoranda of understanding with their managers, securing some of the first pay raises for unionized Hill staffers.  As collective bargaining agreement talks continue, aides for

John Duarte thinks the water troubles bedeviling California’s Central Valley are man-made. But he doesn’t blame climate change. “No, I think the water strains in the West are completely tied to policy choices we’ve made,” says the farmer and freshman