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House Natural Resources Chair Raúl M. Grijalva, D-Ariz., wants to meet with party leaders to hash out a compromise.

House Democrats seek diplomatic solution to permitting impasse

By Lindsey McPherson and Aidan Quigley
Posted September 14, 2022 at 7:00pm
Sen. Richard M. Burr, R-N.C., urged Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., to bring his resolution to the floor for a vote, pledging to deliver 48 Republican votes.

Sanders blocks Senate measure to avert rail stoppage

By Roll Call Staff
Posted September 14, 2022 at 6:10pm
Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., said overhauling what Congress and the vice president can do when certifying the count of electors will provide voters certainty about their votes in presidential elections.

Bipartisan House bill aims to overhaul electoral count

By Chris Cioffi
Posted September 14, 2022 at 5:47pm
White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha is worried about congressional reluctance to approve additional COVID -19 dollars.

Pandemic fatigue threatens COVID-19, monkeypox funding requests

By Ariel Cohen
Posted September 14, 2022 at 3:11pm
Chairman Derek Kilmer right, and Rep. Rodney Davis attend the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress in June. Davis said Wednesday he would support creating a modernization subcommittee on the House Administration Committee.

This ‘weird committee’ isn’t calling it quits quite yet

By Chris Cioffi
Posted September 14, 2022 at 2:58pm
CM-11 tanks fire artillery during live-fire drills in Taiwan on Sept. 7 amid intensifying invasion threats from China.

Taiwan, US struggle over differences on weapons to counter China

By Rachel Oswald
Posted September 13, 2022 at 5:58pm
Sen. Mark Warner warns that unregulated financial products have migrated from the commercial to the retail sector since the last financial crisis.

Senate Democrats say buy now, pay later products lack oversight

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted September 13, 2022 at 5:34pm
Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks Tuesday during a news conference on Capitol Hill to announce a bill on abortion restrictions. Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, is at left.

Graham eyes national abortion ban

By Sandhya Raman
Posted September 13, 2022 at 4:17pm
Peiter Zatko, former head of security at Twitter, told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that U.S. regulators are letting tech companies "grade their own homework."

Whistleblower details foreign agents placed at Twitter, lack of data safeguards

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted September 13, 2022 at 2:01pm
Peiter Zatko, a former Twitter employee who revealed data security issues at the social media company, is scheduled to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.

Twitter whistleblower unlikely to spur congressional action

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted September 13, 2022 at 7:00am
A BNSF intermodal freight train travels across a crossing at Williams, Ariz., on Wednesday, July 6, 2022.

Senators’ legislation seeks to avert freight rail stoppage

By Ellyn Ferguson
Posted September 12, 2022 at 3:52pm, Updated at 9:05pm
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III and Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito are both pushing legislation that would approve a natural gas pipeline for their state, West Virginia.

Beating Manchin to punch, Capito unveils permitting bill

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted September 12, 2022 at 6:48pm
Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, organized the letter.

72 Democrats sign letter opposing Manchin permitting bill

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted September 9, 2022 at 3:43pm
Notre Dame quarterback Tyler Buchner is hit by Ohio State defensive tackle Michael Hall Jr. on Sept. 3. Our columnist explains why Donald Trump resembles the Irish so much lately.

Power Rankings: How political players resemble the top college football teams in all the land

By John T. Bennett
Posted September 9, 2022 at 1:27pm
Libby, a Beagle and spaniel mix, plays in a puddle along 3rd Street, NW, on the day the Senate returned from the August recess on Tuesday, September 6, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week ending September 9, 2022

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted September 9, 2022 at 11:22am
As the first Democratic Haitian American to serve in Congress, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick feels a sense of urgency and destiny.

‘There needs to be a voice’ for Haitian Americans, says Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick

By Chris Cioffi
Posted September 8, 2022 at 6:15am
Doctors' groups have launched what has become an annual lobbying campaign aimed at restoring cuts spurred by a 2020 decision to increase Medicare payments for underpaid services.

Doctors lobby Congress for Medicare payment bump, again

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted September 7, 2022 at 5:00am
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., front, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., want a "clean" interim spending bill.

Stopgap funding bill set to dominate September agenda

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted September 6, 2022 at 2:06pm
Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management and Budget, testifies during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on the president's fiscal 2023 budget request on March 30.

White House $47B supplemental request seeks COVID, Ukraine funding

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted September 2, 2022 at 1:59pm
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, left, and Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, center, listen as Defense Comptroller Michael J. McCord speaks during a House hearing in May. Austin has made confronting the challenge of sexual crimes in the military a centerpiece of his tenure.

Pentagon discloses a record rate of sexual assaults

By John M. Donnelly
Posted September 1, 2022 at 5:13pm
The mid-December timeline gives extra time for hotly contested races to play out, including the Senate seat held by Georgia Democrat Raphael Warnock.

House prepping stopgap funding bill through mid-December

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted September 1, 2022 at 2:00pm
Sens. Amy Klobuchar, left, and Lisa Murkowski wrote a letter to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services about the status of work permits for Ukrainian refugees.

Klobuchar, Murkowski raise concerns over work permit delays

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted September 1, 2022 at 5:00am
Florida Rep. Charlie Crist is resigning after winning the Democratic nomination for governor, a post he previously held as a Republican.

Charlie Crist resigning House seat after winning gubernatorial primary

By Chris Cioffi
Posted August 31, 2022 at 12:14pm
California Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla speaks during a rally in June to urge Congress to enshrine protections for so-called Dreamers.

Immigrant advocates pan scope of eligibility for new ‘Dreamers’ rule

By Caroline Coudriet
Posted August 26, 2022 at 2:19pm
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., holds a news conference in the Capitol in November.

Sen. Lindsey Graham lawsuit could clarify lawmaker protections

By Michael Macagnone
Posted August 26, 2022 at 11:55am
A man stands at a seawall partially washed away by Tropical Storm Noel in South Palm Beach, Fla., in 2007.

Lawmakers may argue about climate change, but they want seawalls

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted August 25, 2022 at 4:22pm
Coal-fired Navajo Generating Station near Page, Ariz.

Reconciliation language shores up EPA clean air authority

By David Jordan and Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted August 25, 2022 at 3:57pm
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik arrives for a news conference in the Capitol on July 19.

Earmarks’ future unclear as Republicans split ahead of midterms

By Aidan Quigley
Posted August 25, 2022 at 1:42pm
Democrat Pat Ryan won the special election in New York's 19th District on Tuesday.

Democrat Pat Ryan wins closely watched New York special election

By Jackie Wang
Posted August 24, 2022 at 5:43am
New York Democratic Rep. Mondaire Jones campaigns in Brooklyn ahead of Tuesday's 10th District primary.

District switch doesn’t save Rep. Mondaire Jones in New York primary

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted August 24, 2022 at 5:36am