Category: Congress

House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) told reporters Wednesday there’s only about $50 billion available to increase a key tax deduction sought by blue-state Republicans. Under legislation...

As the House Energy and Commerce panel entered the early morning hours Wednesday of its marathon megabill markup, Texas GOP Rep. Randy Weber told Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to address...

Tuesday was all about the SALT Republicans. Now, it’s the conservative hard-liners’ turn to make noise. After the impasse over the state-and-local-tax deduction boiled over Tuesday — more on...

The frequently cantankerous Wisconsin senator is pushing his fellow Republicans to deliver huge spending cuts.

The board of the nonpartisan, quasi-independent Office of Congressional Conduct has been at last been appointed after the longest delay in its history.

Speaker Mike Johnson says he’s closer to ending a politically charged standoff over a key tax provision that is one of the major hang-ups standing in the way of...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries warned Republicans and federal law enforcement against sanctioning or arresting three Democratic New Jersey lawmakers who were involved in a tense immigration protest. “They’ll...

The departures are the latest in a string of staff exits over the past year and a half.

Senate Republicans could vote as soon as next week on a controversial proposal to nix federal waivers allowing California to set its own emissions standards — potentially bringing a...

Rep. Buddy Carter is proposing to strip three New Jersey lawmakers of their House committee assignments after they participated last week in a protest at a Newark migrant detention...