Niels Lesniewski

Both the House and Senate come back from recess this week to begin a busy three-week period that’s expected to focus on Republicans’ budget reconciliation agenda, including extending and expanding tax cuts and tightening immigration policy. The top items on […]

Former Rep. Mia Love of Utah, the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, died Sunday at age 49. “She was in her home surrounded by family,” family members announced in a social media post. ”In the midst of a

President Donald Trump alleged Sunday that “the Democrats want” a government shutdown at the end of this week, but he predicted that a lapse in appropriations probably will not take place this time. “I think the CR is going to get

President Donald Trump’s Tuesday evening address to a joint session of Congress headlines another busy week at the Capitol — and don’t look now, but there are less than two weeks until the current government funding law expires. Speaker Mike

Florida Republican Byron Donalds has joined the list of House members running for governor. “I’m here to announce my candidacy to be the next governor of the great state of Florida,” Donalds said Tuesday evening on Fox News. The move

House budget action headlines this week at the Capitol, as House Republicans also work toward overturning Biden administration regulations. The House is expected to vote as early as Tuesday on its version of fiscal 2025 budget blueprint that’s designed to

The Republican majorities in the House and Senate want to get to work quickly on President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda, but they will soon face an assortment of deadlines and potential scheduling conflicts. Here are just a few of the key

Rep. Jennifer Wexton made a little more history Tuesday in her final speech on the House floor. The Virginia Democrat, who is retiring from Congress after announcing last year that she had been diagnosed with a severe neurological disorder, delivered

Departing senators have spent the past few weeks taking their turns at bidding farewell to speaking from the chamber floor. “Look, I have seen a number of these exit speeches,” Sen. Jon Tester of Montana said last week on the

Lawmakers return for what’s expected to be the last workweek of the year with no continuing resolution yet in sight. The text of a stopgap spending bill that would continue funding until at least March 14 was not released over