This year, the most consequential Texan in the Senate is definitely not Ted Cruz.
They completed just one time the biggest, and supposedly easiest, test of governing competence they’d set for themselves. Now the Republicans in charge of the Capitol are on the cusp of not even attempting a repeat performance.
Administration officials are warning of a humanitarian crisis if Congress does not move to address Puerto Rico’s debt crisis.
The death of Justice Antonin Scalia, during one of his many trips far from the capital and underwritten by outsiders, has revived some interest in Supreme Court ethics.
Several hundred school food managers visited Senate offices this week pushing for floor action on a bipartisan draft child nutrition reauthorization bill that reflects a deal on school meal standards brokered with the White House and a key Senate panel.
As President Barack Obama considers expanding on his already record-breaking use of the Antiquities Act to protect federal lands as national monuments, pushback is coming from states such as Utah, where the latest battle is unfolding.
What if a single story dominated Congress for an entire election year, and four out of every five members had no formal avenue for getting involved?
During a decade in national politics, Claire McCaskill has been a trailblazer several times. In 2006, she was the first woman elected to the Senate from Missouri. In 2008, the first senator to back Barack Obama for president. In 2012, the biggest upset winner among the many Democratic incumbents challenged by tea party Republicans. And almost three years ago, the first in Congress to endorse Hillary Clinton well before she started this presidential campaign.
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved a six-year, $69 billion aviation reauthorization bill in early February that would spin off the nation’s air traffic control from the Federal Aviation Administration.
Does Mitch McConnell have an escape hatch? Absolutely. Does he need one? Perhaps. Does he want one? Not clear yet.
On a politically polarized Capitol Hill, one of the House panels that often stands out for bipartisanship is becoming fractured by disputes over the effects of the Federal Communications Commission’s controversial net neutrality rules.
They’re often dubbed “the majority makers,” the nine Republicans who took Senate seats from Democrats in the 2014 election. But what sort of majority have they made for themselves?
Lock and dam projects at one time were favorites for congressional earmarks, prizes for lawmakers to snag and brag about back home.
The Obama administration is proposing $4.6 billion in budget authority for the Army Corps of Engineers for fiscal 2017, a 2 percent decrease from what it proposed in its fiscal 2016 budget blueprint and a 23 percent cut from what Congress enacted.
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