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Senate leaders struck a deal Friday to punt consideration of the bipartisan science research and development package until after the upcomin...

President Joe Biden is asking a polarized and nearly evenly divided Congress to spend big on infrastructure, education, health care, climate...

President Joe Biden unveiled a $6 trillion budget blueprint Friday that would set the government on a spending spree to make up for what Whi...

Republican senators on Friday drowned the hopes of an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capit...

“The waiting,” as Tom Petty once sang, “is the hardest part.” But what comes next after President Joe Biden’s delayed fiscal 2022 budget rel...

Pressure is building on the Biden administration to secure the safety of Afghans who worked with the U.S. military and whose lives will like...

The Senate’s scientific research and development package got past a key hurdle on Thursday as the chamber voted 68-30 to invoke cloture on a...

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Delaware Sen. Thomas R. Carper used to commute to Washington on the Amtrak train with then-Sen. Joe Biden. After the pandemic decimated Amtr...

The Department of Homeland Security issued a new directive Thursday that requires private operators of pipelines to report any cybersecurity...

After a night that saw the Senate confirm her nomination, only to un-confirm her hours later, Christine Wormuth was confirmed for the second...

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack sits down with Mary C. Curtis to discuss Black farmers and the USDA plan to provide debt relief to soci...

Amtrak, the nation’s rail system, has been on the brink for years. It went on life support during the pandemic and survived thanks to a $2 b...

A group of six Senate Republicans aiming to restart stalled negotiations with President Joe Biden on Thursday released a $928 billion counte...

A pair of progressive lawmakers is pushing to include legislation that would lock in more than $1 trillion in spending for U.S.-made clean e...

Rep. Marc Veasey got his start in politics as a campaign volunteer-turned-district staffer for another North Texas Democrat, Martin Frost. ...

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Investment strategies that consider environmental, social and governance factors may soon find their way into employer-sponsored retirement...

Kamala Harris’ ascension to the vice presidency left the Senate without any Black women. To fill that void, activists are eyeing opportuniti...

A congressional staffer froze recently when elevator doors opened and there stood a member of the House who has downplayed the violence of t...

Rep. Marie Newman persuaded a potential primary opponent not to run against her by offering him a six-figure job in her congressional office...

Two key committee chairs in the House and Senate are taking the first step toward crafting legislation to create a public health insurance o...

A Capitol Police officer on a motorcycle was struck by a van Wednesday and airlifted to a hospital.The collision happened at Washington...

Senate Appropriations Chairman Patrick J. Leahy will allocate half of earmarked dollars to Republicans in that chamber if some undetermined...

This week marked the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police, a time defined by a subsequent international...