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Reps. James R. Comer, R-Ky., left, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, conduct a news conference on the investigation into the Biden family's “influence peddling to enrich themselves,” in the Capitol Visitor Center on May 10.

Ways and Means will meet to review private tax documents

By Laura Weiss
Posted June 20, 2023 at 5:40pm
California Rep. Ami Bera, one of five Indian American lawmakers, all Democrats, says he would "hate to see India lose that secular identity" that saw the world's largest Hindu population living side by side with one of the world's largest Muslim populations.

US welcome of India’s Modi is darkened by rights record

By Rachel Oswald
Posted June 20, 2023 at 7:00am, Updated at 1:44pm
Sen. Elizabeth Warren hopes to see her DOD ethics legislation included as part of this year's defense policy bill.

NDAA could address Pentagon’s ‘revolving door’

By John M. Donnelly
Posted June 16, 2023 at 7:00am, Updated June 20, 2023 at 12:20pm
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., is helping lead the push for an expanded child benefit, including a boost for infants.

Baby bonus a new twist in Democrats’ child tax credit push

By Laura Weiss
Posted June 20, 2023 at 11:07am
A retail warehouse was damaged by a recent Russian missile attack in Odesa, Ukraine.

Congress should dole out funds for a postwar Ukraine investment trust fund

By Bruce Stokes
Posted June 20, 2023 at 6:00am
Sen. Richard Blumenthal hugs gun control advocate and former Rep. Gabby Giffords after her address during the National Safer Communities Summit at the University of Hartford on Friday.

Advocates, Biden mark anniversary of gun law, look to future

By Daniela Altimari
Posted June 16, 2023 at 5:58pm
Rep. Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland accused Republicans of reneging on bipartisan spending levels set in a debt limit deal.

Partisan clash on spending and taxes

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Laura Weiss
Posted June 16, 2023 at 3:17pm
Members of the House Armed Services Committee will mark up the annual defense policy bill on June 21.

DOD anti-extremism efforts draw scrutiny in NDAA amendments

By Briana Reilly
Posted June 16, 2023 at 3:03pm
Senate Foreign Relations ranking member Jim Risch, R-Idaho, said he was frustrated that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government hasn't asked parliament to approve Sweden's membership to NATO.

Risch blocks Hungary arms package over Sweden’s stalled NATO bid

By Rachel Oswald
Posted June 15, 2023 at 5:21pm
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., slammed House Republicans over spending and tax demands on Thursday.

Jeffries: GOP ‘driving us toward a government shutdown’

By John T. Bennett
Posted June 15, 2023 at 12:05pm
The Supreme Court building at sunset.

Supreme Court upholds federal law on Native American children

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 15, 2023 at 11:40am
"We commend the courageous congressional staff," seeking to unionize, said Taylor J. Swift, senior policy adviser at Demand Progress.

In a first, House Education and the Workforce panel’s Democratic staffers look to unionize

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 15, 2023 at 11:37am
House Appropriations Chairwoman Kay Granger, R-Texas, center, talks with Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., during a full committee markup Wednesday.

Battle over parties’ share of earmarks erupts in House panel

By Aidan Quigley
Posted June 14, 2023 at 6:55pm
Reps. Jodey C. Arrington, right, and Kevin Hern leave a meeting of the House Republican Conference at the Capitol Hill Club on Feb. 28.

Conservatives’ budget plan renews battle over seniors’ benefits

By David Lerman
Posted June 14, 2023 at 6:31pm
The House voted on Wednesday to table a measure to censure California Democratic Rep. Adam B. Schiff.

GOP blocked from punishing Schiff for going after Trump

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted June 14, 2023 at 4:48pm
Dale Ho, right, approaches microphones with other lawyers to speak to reporters outside of the Supreme Court after arguments in 2019 over a citizenship question the Trump administration sought to add to the 2020 census.

Senate confirms voting rights lawyer as New York federal judge

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted June 14, 2023 at 4:34pm
President Joe Biden applauds as an image of U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich appears onscreen during the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in April.

House passes resolution calling on Putin to release reporter Gershkovich and others

By Justin Papp
Posted June 14, 2023 at 12:54pm
Primaries will be the same day to fill the House seats of Rhode Island Democrat David Cicilline, left, who resigned earlier this month, and Utah Republican Chris Stewart, who told his state's governor he would resign effective Sept. 15.

Special elections in Utah, Rhode Island draw a glut of candidates

By Daniela Altimari
Posted June 14, 2023 at 12:27pm
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark E. Green, R-Tenn., leaves the Capitol building in March.

House GOP releases border report critical of Homeland Security chief

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted June 14, 2023 at 11:35am
From left, Rep. Ralph Norman; Ed Martin, president of the Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund; and Jeffrey Clark, former Acting Assistant Attorney General, talk before the start of a field hearing hosted by Rep. Matt Gaetz on Tuesday.

Trump arraignment sparks Capitol Hill action from supporters

By Michael Macagnone and Ryan Tarinelli
Posted June 13, 2023 at 7:21pm
Omar Ashmawy, staff director at the Office of Congressional Ethics.

Ethics office director in hot seat at House hearing over DUI

By Justin Papp
Posted June 13, 2023 at 6:59pm
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky testifies during a House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic hearing in the Rayburn Building on Tuesday.

Republicans grill outgoing CDC director as she prepares to exit

By Ariel Cohen
Posted June 13, 2023 at 6:31pm
Rep. Kelly Armstrong, R-N.D., said the bill wouldn't prevent the Consumer Product Safety Commission from doing research or from agreeing on voluntary standards with the industry.

House returns to gas stoves, passing bill to block federal ban

By David Jordan
Posted June 13, 2023 at 6:22pm
Reps. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., left, seen at a March hearing and Ben Cline, R-Va., introduced the joint resolution to disapprove of a District of Columbia policing law.

House push to override Biden veto over DC policing policy falls short

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 13, 2023 at 6:06pm
Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Ga., conducts a news conference Tuesday outside the Capitol on discharge petitions to bring “common-sense gun safety legislation,” to the floor.

House GOP passes measure to undo pistol brace regulation

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 13, 2023 at 6:01pm
Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, testifies before Congress in 2022.

Senators, CFPB’s Chopra spar over proposed credit card fee limit

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted June 13, 2023 at 4:33pm
NSA surveillance protesters march in 2013 from Union Station to the U.S. Capitol to voice opposition to government's surveillance of online activity and phone calls.

Senators want privacy safeguards in renewing surveillance tool

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted June 13, 2023 at 1:02pm
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., left, and Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., were all smiles before a GOP conference meeting Tuesday that members said got tense.

‘F-bombs’ and veiled threats: House GOP reacts to impasse-busting deal

By John T. Bennett
Posted June 13, 2023 at 12:04pm
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., plans committee hearings on ways to keep AI-generated breakthroughs in the U.S.

Congress ponders whether AI should have the power of the patent

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted June 13, 2023 at 7:00am
Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, leaves House Republicans’ conference meeting at the Capitol Hill Club on May 10.

Granger sets fiscal 2024 funding targets below debt limit deal

By Aidan Quigley
Posted June 13, 2023 at 7:00am