Congress
Your guide to what’s happening on Capitol Hill.
The GOP is divided, however, on how Biden has handled the invasion.
The latest continuing resolution means we’re still on a Trump-era budget.
They help avert government shutdowns, but they aren’t responsive to new needs that agencies have.
Lawmakers have been working across the aisle on a slew of issues.
Details vary, but Democrats and Republicans are both ready to ban stock trading by lawmakers.
GOP critiques of the committee investigating the January 6 insurrection serve to further normalize the attack.
What’s next in the Senate, now that Justice Stephen Breyer is stepping down.
Sinema’s political future is murky after her filibuster vote.
Improving the Electoral Count Act isn’t enough to protect voting rights and stop election subversion.
A failed vote on rules changes guarantees little progress on voting rights — and many other policies.
Senate rules are fostering obstruction — not bipartisanship.
Where the president’s voting rights speech falls short.
It’s a big step toward actually confronting filibuster reform.
The party’s internal divides could trip up its agenda again in 2022.
Forecasting what’s shaping up to be another bumpy year.
Voting rights, police reform, and immigration reform are among the priorities they failed to pass in 2021.
Covid-19 exposed many of the flaws in the US health care system. Congress might not do anything to fix them.
There’s a reason they wanted the social spending bill tied to infrastructure.
The conservative Democrat said he couldn’t vote for the bill, despite months of negotiations.
The bill’s fate depends on whether he’s acting in good faith or bad faith.
Republican senators have been holding up Biden’s diplomatic nominees.
They wanted to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation.
Congress on Tuesday raised the debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion by doing just that.
Democrats’ best tool for fighting child poverty could expire soon.
It’s a unique solution to avoid a debt default.
Inaction normalizes anti-Muslim rhetoric and sentiment.
Lawmakers are scrambling to pass a continuing resolution that will keep the government open — and push a funding fight to next year.
Congress is running out of time to avoid a shutdown and raise the debt ceiling.
If passed, it would be transformative for women’s workplace participation and economic growth.
Democrats want to lower drug costs for commercial health plans — if the Byrd Rule will let them.
Its future, however, hinges on the Senate.
The House just took an important stand against violence in politics.
They’ll have significant discretion over how much of the funding will be spent.
The $550 billion legislation includes some massive investments, while failing to fully address the country’s needs.
Immigration provisions in Democrats’ budget reconciliation bill are likely on the chopping block.
A Steve Bannon indictment shows the DOJ is willing to enforce Congress’s subpoena power.
New election maps passed into law could be worse for Democrats than their recent loss in Virginia.
The Build Back Better Act could include an increased cap for the state and local tax deduction.
Democrats passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, but their larger climate and social spending bill is still in doubt.
A win for Democrats on prescription drugs has been decades in the making.