Congress is wrapping up the year without a lot of legislative accomplishments under its belt and a growing list of lawmakers who are retiring. Former members say the challenges on Capitol Hill have ...

Congress is dying in real time. By Jamelle Bouie Michelle Cottle and David French Produced by Vishakha Darbha The legislative branch of the government is in crisis. The shutdown is entering a second ...

Democrats have successfully framed what is now the second-longest government shutdown in U.S. history around the issue of health care. Some three weeks in, it remains solid ground for the party, and ...

The government shutdown has already lasted more than a week, and there aren't many indications of when it might end. As the effects of the shutdown become more real, and certain government employees ...

This December on Capitol Hill appears to follow a familiar script. There’s a deadline for Congress to act on (insert issue here). And if lawmakers don’t move by Jan. 1, then (insert consequence here).

The White House is very distinctly not a palace, right? Yeah give it time. There’s so much gold. Well, believe it or not, we are not going to talk about the elections that are happening on Tuesday. We ...

Congress is preparing to use the War Powers Resolution’s fast-track machinery to force a recorded vote on whether President Trump must end U.S. “hostilities within or against Venezuela” that Congress ...