This bill may not seem dangerous, but it escalates an attack on schools across the country.

On Chuck Schumer’s troubling embrace of Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and India’s Narendra Modi

Default could permanently threaten our status as the provider of the primary global reserve currency—along with the substantial economic benefits that come from this position of privilege.

Lawmakers are poised to rescind the blank-check authorizations to use military force that the executive branch was handed decades ago.

The constituents traveled to Washington, D.C., to say Santos should resign, or Republican leadership should kick him out.

Members of Congress use guests at the State of the Union to send a message. This year, here’s where their priorities are.

Democratic lawmakers have a golden opportunity to distinguish themselves from Kevin McCarthy’s army of weirdos.

The tribe has renewed its push to get a delegate in the House of Representatives, and the law is on its side.

The discharge petition has been floated as a Hail Mary to avoid default, but the current political conditions do not augur success.

A Republican House and Democratic Senate could complicate negotiations, but some still hope for a revival of talks two years after the last failed effort.

On the Homeland Security Committee, she’ll have access to highly sensitive information about domestic right-wing terrorism. Comforting?

The Democratic senator claims to be worried about electric vehicles relying on foreign lithium. The best way to fix that would be walkable cities and great public transit.

GOP lawmakers in the House take up fentanyl, drug addiction, and the border as their new causes célèbres.

From a draconian new proposal in Iowa to farm bill deliberations in Washington, the ideological battles over food aid will soon kick off—and no one knows who will end up paying the price.

It may not last forever, but the scandal-plagued congressman is helpfully distracting attention from the House’s bona fide extremists and their weird ideas.

The new year has brought the same old worries about breaching the debt limit. But there’s one worrying change: An unruly group of House Republicans is now in charge.

Six months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the decision is still seen as an electoral game-changer.

The New York representative has lied about the majority of his background. But even after multiple ethics complaints and federal investigations, he maintains he’s done nothing “unethical.”

The Georgia representative is trying to position herself as a moderate, as Kevin McCarthy finally takes up the mantle as House leader.

This was the fifth-longest House speaker election in history, with the most votes since before the Civil War.