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Rep. Bryan Steil of Wisconsin was one of four members, all Republican, who participated in every House roll call vote last year without using the option to vote by proxy.

2022 Vote Studies: Proxies helped keep participation at record pace

By Paul V. Fontelo and Ryan Kelly
Posted March 22, 2023 at 5:30am
Former Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia appears on a screen last July during a hearing of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.

Jan. 6 panel’s video depositions become tantalizing tool for probes

By Michael Macagnone
Posted March 22, 2023 at 5:00am
Speaker Kevin McCarthy said the House would start legislation to repeal authorizations for military force in committee and that it had a strong chance of reaching the floor.

McCarthy says Iraq AUMFs will first go to House committee

By Rachel Oswald
Posted March 21, 2023 at 7:23pm
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., says Republicans want all of HR 1 enacted.

House Republican leaders work to fuse support for energy package

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted March 21, 2023 at 5:45pm
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said “Big tech wants to keep its code in a black box where no one can see what they’re doing."

Critics say Big Tech uses trade deals to avoid data privacy laws

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted March 21, 2023 at 7:00am
Rep. Russell Fry, R-S.C., participates in a House Judiciary Committee organizing meeting in February.

GOP freshman class president Russell Fry talks dad jokes, new House Republicans and Trump

By Justin Papp
Posted March 21, 2023 at 6:00am
Senate Banking Chair Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, raised the "magnitude of the uninsured deposits" at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank after federal regulators said they would guarantee the deposits.

Lawmakers float ways to recapture deposit insurance discipline

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted March 20, 2023 at 5:33pm
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., participates in House Democrats’ press conference following their caucus meeting in the Capitol on Jan. 10.

White House, Democrats unload on GOP spending cuts scenarios

By Aidan Quigley
Posted March 20, 2023 at 5:19pm
A teleprompter stands between then-Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and the gallery during an October 2022 hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Coordinated focus let House Jan. 6 panel grab the public’s attention

By Michael Macagnone
Posted March 20, 2023 at 5:00am, Updated at 5:18pm
House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas.

Balanced budget takes back seat to paring spending to ’22 levels at GOP retreat

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted March 20, 2023 at 3:25pm
The facade of the United States Supreme Court building.

Supreme Court appears divided on Navajo water rights lawsuit

By Michael Macagnone
Posted March 20, 2023 at 1:58pm
Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, says the methane tax in last year's climate law will hurt independent fossil fuel companies.

With US fossil fuel production up, GOP would step on the gas

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted March 20, 2023 at 11:52am
Speaker Kevin McCarthy addresses reporters at House Republicans' annual issues conference.

McCarthy urges against protests, violence if Trump is indicted

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted March 19, 2023 at 9:10pm
President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., at the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon in the Rayburn Room of the Capitol on Friday.

Biden, McCarthy unite on Ireland at St. Patrick’s Day lunch

By Ariel Cohen
Posted March 17, 2023 at 3:29pm
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., announced plans to use the Congressional Review Act to try to undo President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program.

Republicans take aim at Biden student loan forgiveness

By Daniela Altimari
Posted March 17, 2023 at 3:26pm
President Joe Biden is asking Congress to give the FDIC more authority to punish executives whose banks fail. The White said executives responsible for the failure of one bank shouldn't be allowed to lead another.

Biden seeks FDIC authority to claw back bankers’ compensation

By CQ Roll Call Staff
Posted March 17, 2023 at 12:45pm
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.

Markups? Floor votes? Senate appropriators say ‘yes we can’

By Aidan Quigley
Posted March 17, 2023 at 12:00pm
Andy Griffith stands next to a television in the 1957 film “A Face in the Crowd,” playing media provocateur “Lonesome” Rhodes.

Who is America’s ‘Lonesome’ Rhodes?

By John T. Bennett
Posted March 17, 2023 at 6:00am
Rep. Harold Rogers, R-K.Y., right, and Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., are seen outside a House Republican Steering Committee meeting in January.

Rep. Harold Rogers brings influence to appropriations role

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted March 17, 2023 at 5:00am
Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., on the House steps last year. A man who police say attacked her last month remains in custody in Washington.

Prosecutors oppose release for man charged in lawmaker attack

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted March 16, 2023 at 5:57pm
Sen. Josh Hawley attends a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee markup in the Dirksen Building on Wednesday.

Energy department briefs senators on COVID-19 origins

By Lauren Clason
Posted March 16, 2023 at 4:44pm
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., sponsored the bill that is expected to be passed by the Senate next week.

Senate advances bill repealing Iraq military authorizations

By Rachel Oswald
Posted March 16, 2023 at 1:22pm
Asylum-seekers line up to be processed by border agents at a gap in the U.S.-Mexico border fence near Somerton, Ariz., in December.

Border chief asks House panel to boost migrant processing

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted March 15, 2023 at 3:52pm
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., who voted to ease regulations in 2018, said it isn't clear what additional regulatory requirements might have changed the outcome at SVB.

Lawmakers from both parties skeptical of legislation over SVB

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted March 15, 2023 at 3:21pm, Updated at 3:51pm
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said he supports legislation that seeks to block agriculture purchasers acting for China, Russia, Iran or North Korea.

Gap in data complicates legislation to keep China off US farms

By Ellyn Ferguson
Posted March 15, 2023 at 2:16pm
Victims are remembered as gun violence survivors gather in front of the Supreme Court ahead of oral argument in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen in November 2021.

Senate hears about legal fallout from Supreme Court gun decision

By Michael Macagnone
Posted March 15, 2023 at 2:01pm
Rep. Wittman, R-Va., is skeptical of the Navy’s plans to decommission unwanted hulls.

Efforts to boost Pentagon budget may start with Navy

By John M. Donnelly
Posted March 15, 2023 at 1:45pm
"Moving forward, the Committee on House Administration will take action to hold bad actors accountable and avoid this occurring again in the future," said Committee Chairman Bryan Steil.

House, Senate members affected in DC Health Link breach total 21

By Justin Papp
Posted March 14, 2023 at 6:10pm
Rep. Jesús "Chuy" Garcia, D-Ill., speaks at a rally in 2021 in Washington.

House Democrats call to improve border appointment app

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted March 14, 2023 at 12:37pm, Updated at 4:15pm
Pat Schroeder, D-Colo., discusses her retirement at a news conference in the House studio in 1995.

Pat Schroeder, first woman on House Armed Services, dies at 82

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted March 14, 2023 at 4:02pm