Congress gets another chance to break the gridlock over a deadlocked stimulus bill when they reconvene for a short period beginning on Monday. The return to Washington will end before Christmas, and part of that MORE
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin are set to talk Tuesday morning after Democrats unveiled a coronavirus stimulus plan designed to restart progress toward a relief deal. Democrats released the $2.2 trillion legislation Monday night as MORE
The State Department has informally confirmed to Congress that Republican super-donor Sheldon Adelson is the buyer of the U.S. ambassador’s official residence in Israel, a congressional aide told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Lawmakers in MORE
The House of Representatives will soon vote to remove marijuana from the Controlled Substance Act and erase some cannabis criminal records. States would still have to vote to legalize marijuana but 11 states have already MORE
Sanders comments Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” follow word that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is seriously discussing whether to bring back lawmakers early from recess, according to a Democratic aide. Senators must pressure Majority MORE
The appointments of the top two officials at the Department of Homeland Security violated federal law, the Government Accountability Office said on Friday. GAO, which is an independent watchdog agency that reports to Congress, said MORE
“In your time at the department,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold E. Nadler (D-N.Y.) said in his opening statement, “you have aided and abetted the worst failings of this president.” Barr came ready to defend himself MORE
Officials involved in negotiations with Senate Republicans, confirm the Trump administration wants to block billions from the new Coronavirus relief bill for states to conduct testing and contact tracing. The administration is also trying to MORE
In Trump v. Vance, the Supreme Court has ruled that a subpoena to a sitting president does not have to meet a heightened standard. In other words, the president is not above the law and MORE
Some GOP lawmakers who benefited from the Paycheck Protection Program also opposed legislation requiring lending transparency. At least four members of Congress have reaped benefits in some way from the half-trillion-dollar small-business loan program they MORE
Reps. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.), Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) and Justin Amash (I-Mich.) introduced a one-sentence resolution on Tuesday pushing back on President Trump’s claims that he has total authority over when states can begin to ease MORE
U.S. Representative Thomas Massie enraged President Donald Trump as he has leaders of Congress worried he will delay a planned Friday voice vote on a $2.2 trillion coronavirus economic rescue plan, drawing calls from the MORE
Judge Reggie B. Walton, a federal district court judge appointed by Bush Jr. ordered AG Billy Barr to hand over an unredacted copy of the Muller Report him. He also accused Barr “misrepresenting its findings MORE
Pompous Ass Pompeo continued to toe the Trump administration line in a hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Friday, this time leading him to refuse to deny that coronavirus is a “hoax.” Pompeo’s MORE
Chris Taylor, a Safford city councilman who is running for Congress, overdosed on heroin last week and since has suspended his campaign. The Wednesday incident was a relapse for Taylor, a combat veteran who has battled MORE
One of the five Republicans competing to unseat Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) in November, serial shoplifter and Wing Nut Darling, Danielle Stella, is still campaigning and raising funds despite being on the run from the MORE
Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., the congressman who was once the first to stand up and endorse then-candidate Trump during the 2016 election, was sentenced to two years and two months in federal prison on Friday. MORE
Twenty-five Jewish Democratic members of Congress are calling on President Donald Trump to remove senior White House adviser Stephen Millerfrom the administration based on leaked emails that showed he promoted stories from white nationalist and fringe MORE
Donald Trump on Wednesday evening became the third president in US history to be impeached. Here’s a timeline of how we got here. And here are the next steps: The selection of impeachment managers The House speaker, Nancy MORE
Republican congressman Mark Meadows, a top ally to President Donald Trump, said Thursday that he won’t seek reelection. His announcement comes just a day after the U.S. House voted to impeach Trump on charges that MORE
Congress has passed an annual defense authorization bill following a vote in the Senate on Tuesday that includes a provision that creates a new space force branch of the armed services and provides all federal workers with MORE
For the first time in over twenty years, Congress has reached a bi-partisan deal that includes funding for research on gun violence. The bill, which the House is expected to vote on as soon as Tuesday, MORE
A federal appeals court in New York has upheld the legality of congressional subpoenas seeking President Donald Trump’s banking records but said sensitive personal information should be protected. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled MORE
The widow of Rep. Elijah Cummings is planning to run for her late husband’s seat in Congress. “I fought right alongside of Elijah,” Maya Rockeymoore Cummings said on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” Monday night, MORE
Washington (CNN) The House Committee on Ethics announced Wednesday it is opening an investigation into allegations that Democratic Rep. Katie Hill of California engaged in an improper relationship with a congressional staffer in possible violation MORE