Category: Congress

House Financial Services Republicans approved legislation Wednesday that would slash funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and dissolve the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board into the Securities and...

A Democratic effort to rebuff President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs failed Wednesday, thanks to two absent senators. Senators voted 49-49 to reject the national emergency Trump used to...

After a meeting Wednesday afternoon with vulnerable House Republicans wary of Medicaid cuts, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) acknowledged there are still obstacles to enacting...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Wednesday she is considering a run for House Democrats' top position on the Oversight Committee. "It's something that I'm weighing, but the seat is not...

House and Senate Republicans are sending more signals they doubt their ability to pass a new, bipartisan farm bill this year. Their latest suggestion of looming defeat: Lawmakers are...

Rep. Elise Stefanik and Speaker Mike Johnson met Wednesday afternoon after tensions between the two boiled over this week. The relationship between the two senior Republicans has deteriorated after...

House Judiciary Committee Republicans backtracked on a plan Wednesday to centralize all antitrust activities within the Justice Department as they debate their portion of the party-line megabill. “The amendment...

The Senate Commerce Committee appeared poised Wednesday morning to narrowly advance a bill to make daylight saving time permanent — a sign that lawmakers are coalescing around ending the...

Republican hard-liners say a bill to restore the District of Columbia local budget and forestall planned layoffs doesn’t have votes to pass the House without conservative policy add-ons, according...

The usually cutthroat House Oversight and Government Reform Committee put partisanship on a brief pause Wednesday morning to offer bipartisan prayers and support for outgoing ranking member Gerry Connolly...