Advocates are seizing the moment to call for change, urging Congress not to “get back in the city management business” before ...

Nineteen members of Congress died in office in the 2000s, and 16 died in office in the 1990s, according to data from a ...

Facing intense pressure over the threat of a shutdown in less than two days, lawmakers are racing to push through a ...

Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin sparked controversy this week when he appeared on the Senate floor wearing a cowboy hat.

On spending, oversight and other issues, Republican lawmakers have willingly ceded power traditionally reserved for Congress ...

House Republicans are unveiling a new bill to stop federal funds to any state or local area that pays for slavery reparations ...

President Donald Trump and his allies are already crafting a plan to make good on their promise to cut federal spending this ...

Mass deportations and a debt-limit increase are being stalled by House-Senate differences and the massive size of the budget ...

Parents are mobilizing to persuade senators to reject the Republican funding bill, which would leave the budget for the ...

Gov. Jared Polis warned Thursday of the impact of potential Medicaid cuts in Colorado, reiterated his support for federal ...

District leaders say that a proposed cut to the city budget, part of a plan to avert a federal government shutdown, is unfair ...

Washington, D.C., which has often had a tenuous peace with the federal government when Republicans controlled Congress and ...