Category: Congress

Speaker Mike Johnson is working to assuage worries within his conference about his strategy of keeping the House indefinitely out of session until Senate Democrats vote to end the...

The congressional probe into the Jeffrey Epstein case now appears to be caught in the crossfires of the government shutdown. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s monthslong investigation...

Top House Republicans are holding firm against an effort by one of their home-state GOP senators to hold a stand-alone vote on reopening the National Flood Insurance Program amid...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is trying to entice Democrats to support reopening the government with a vote on their biggest priority. Thune, in an interview with MSNBC’s Ali...

Democrats have to decide Thursday whether voting in favor of advancing a full-year appropriations bill will weaken their negotiating position in the government shutdown. Republicans are daring Democrats to...

Rep. Andy Barr has maintained his early fundraising edge in the crowded Republican primary to succeed GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell in Kentucky. Barr raised $1.8 million between the beginning...

Texas’ GOP Senate primary is widely expected to be a bruising and costly fight — and so far the money race is highly competitive between Sen. John Cornyn and...

Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff continues to hold a massive fundraising advantage over the Republicans vying to unseat him in Georgia. Ossoff raised more than $12 million from July through...

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) once again raised more money from donors than his challengers did last quarter. Cassidy, who faces several primary challengers after his past criticism of President...

Even as the courts step in, some lawmakers want workers protected in any standoff-ending deal.