In a time of rank partisanship, lawmakers may reach a deal to extend key tax credits for families and businesses.

New York's fakest lawmaker courted and created scandal, spoon-fed it to the media, and is now capitalizing off it. The story is as American as apple pie.

The retiring congressman made history—just not in the way he’d hoped.

The Ukrainian president spent the day lobbying for more funding to fend off Russia, and found lawmakers locked in a border dispute instead.

It was absolutely the right thing to do in this extreme case.

With only a few weeks left in the year and several items on the agenda, Johnson may need to assuage skeptical Republicans.

Representative Abigail Spanberger is making a run for governor, and Democrats will need to fight to keep her swing district blue.

Behind the scenes at the Capitol—and beyond, by Grace Segers

The next task for a divided Congress is to find a way to put the “fun” back in “government funding.”

The upper chamber’s GOP members greeted the new speaker in the House with bemusement—and the need to google him.

The centrist group dedicated to “problem solving” seems to have decided to start sowing constitutional chaos.

It really sucks to be a member of Congress on most days. And as the GOP spirals through a second week of not electing a speaker, some are eyeing the exits.

The lawmakers opposing the would-be speaker’s bid can’t be called moderates, but they all share the belief that the government should actually function.

The Republican nominee for speaker spent his day doing what his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, did best—not getting enough votes to win the gavel.

The Ohioian, who combines an extreme lack of interest in governing with a governing interest in extremism, would be the perfect leader of this lapsed party.

After several weeks of extended chaos, it’s possible the lower chamber will be permanently changed by the GOP’s intraparty fracas.

The GOP can’t evade the structural realities that make it so hard to elect a speaker—and which will make it impossible for that new speaker to govern.

The New Republic spoke to the New Jersey congressman about his run for Senate and the chaos in the House.

The Republican Party’s sequel to last January’s Kevin McCarthy crisis is not going well.

There’s a procedural way out of this madness—if a few Republicans have the guts to pursue it.