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Once upon a time, in a less polarized era, the periodic need to “raise the debt ceiling” was an occasion lawmakers used to refocus the political conversation on the national ...

Nearly 70 House Democrats have urged party leaders in both chambers of Congress for more funding in the reconciliation budget to combat climate change through the Interior Department, calling funding ...

U.S. Capitol Police say a man who claimed to have a bomb in his pickup truck outside the Capitol building and Library of Congress has surrendered after a standoff that ...

It’s hardly a secret that many House Democrats are frustrated with the infrastructure bill cooked up by a bipartisan group of senators that’s currently wending its way through the upper ...

Threats against federal lawmakers have more than doubled so far this year compared with last year, the United States Capitol Police said Friday.

Members of the all-Democratic Massachusetts delegation praised President Joe Biden’s first speech to a joint session of Congress Wednesday night. Marking his first 100 days in office, Biden extolled progress ...

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are anxious as the nation awaits the verdict in former police officer Derek Chauvin's trial, fearing a not-guilty decision could exacerbate racial tensions and spark a ...

New weekly unemployment claims ticked upward again last week—coming in at a total of more than 1 million new claims for the 50th consecutive week—as lawmakers in Congress continue to ...

The families of two police officers who died by suicide within days after defending Congress from a pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6 wants their deaths recognized as “in the line ...

WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday is poised to impeach President Donald Trump a second time, which will make him the first president to ever face this punishment twice.House lawmakers ...