Year: 2025

Backers of Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposed "bell-to-bell" ban on the use of smartphones in schools are flunking Democrats in the state Senate for pushing to "water down" the prohibition. Backers of...

“Well, clearly we’re not taking away education, The president never said that. He's taking the bureaucracy out of education so that more money flows to the states." “Well, clearly...

Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday gave his most candid assessment yet of billionaire Elon Musk's influence in Congress and the potential threat he poses to legislative dealmaking: "He can...

Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune met on Tuesday and discussed the sweeping domestic policy legislation at the top of their 2025 agenda. The closed-door conversation...

"Today we are beginning the process to cut the total number of staff at the Department of Education roughly in half," a senior Department of Education official said Tuesday....

Americans for Public Trust, a private watchdog group that targets corruption, alleged that AOC tapped into her Member Representational Allowance to shell out $4,550 for what was described as...

More than 160 Democratic Party lawmakers, officials and activists have drafted a letter to party leaders opposing ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo's comeback bid for New York City mayor, and want...

Many hard-right members voted Tuesday for their first stopgap spending bill ever. “I’m as stunned as anybody else,” said Rep. Andy Biggs.

The Kentucky Republican has been through it all before: “It’ll blow over.”

House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan has a strategy for how to give President Donald Trump’s top ally, Elon Musk, the changes to high-skilled visa rules the tech billionaire so...