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Your guide to what’s happening on Capitol Hill.
The select committee on the Chinese Communist Party’s first hearing Tuesday represented a rare moment of bipartisanship in Washington.
By doing so, he’s normalizing a conversation around mental health.
Democrats have outpaced the previous administration so far — but they’ll need to do more to beat Trump’s four-year record.
In recent years, lawmakers have demanded more information about unidentified aerial phenomena.
House Republicans are ready to investigate everything under the sun.
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The frustrated GOP response to Biden’s State of the Union speech was all about the third rail of American politics.
The biggest moments from Joe Biden’s decidedly loose and optimistic speech.
There’s growing pressure on the president in the wake of the killing of Tyre Nichols.
It’s the 30th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act. There are still huge gaps in federal policy.
The GOP has a long history of targeting Omar with political attacks.
A conversation with Robert Garcia, a first-year Democrat, on the coming fireworks in the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee. Garcia is the first openly LGBTQ immigrant in Congress.
For years, Republicans made Nancy Pelosi out to be a public enemy — the attack on her husband is the result.
The GOP is trading longtime dealmakers for more combative members.
It’s an uphill battle in the new Congress — but Democrats aren’t letting the policy go.
“We’re not going to stop”: Staffers are undeterred by Republicans’ union-busting efforts.
Given Republican House control, more representation may not translate to more inclusive policies.
A fractured GOP could be good news for Democrats.
McCarthy was able to sway several far-right members of his party by agreeing to extraordinary concessions that will rewrite the politics of the House.
A coalition of Democratic groups and strategists are ramping up a coordinated effort to investigate and go after House Republicans.
Republican Kevin McCarthy failed to become House speaker on the first ballot, something that hasn’t happened in a century.
Divided government is back, baby.
Asian American voters, once again, had strong turnout — a sign that 2020 was no anomaly.
Why Zelenskyy made the surprising trip this week.
Criminal referrals don’t carry any legal weight. The January 6 ones will still be significant.
They’re both among the long-shot bills Democrats are still trying to get done this year.
The threat of a shutdown seems to crop up every year.
Why the same old spending fight is supercharged this year.
Lawmakers are going down to the wire on vital government funding and defense policy bills.
The Arizona first-termer becomes the first Senate Democrat to leave her party since the 2000s.
It doesn’t go as far as Obergefell, but it still offers important protections.
The landmark vote on the Respect for Marriage Act underscores the evolution lawmakers have made on the issue.
It’s the GOP’s latest attempt to undo such policies.
Warnock’s win gives Democrats more power in the upper chamber.
A bipartisan proposal for immigration reform might not be the solution Democrats were looking for.
The election could say a lot about candidate quality and whether Democrats can replicate their success in the state.
The public isn’t likely to get its hands on the documents any time soon.
Voters are sending the highest number of Latino lawmakers to Congress ever, and increasing ideological diversity along with it.
Lawmakers say it’s needed even if it doesn’t fix the housing supply shortage.
A measure to approve seven paid sick days for rail workers has failed in the upper chamber.