Congress is terribly unpopular, and no one who watches it closely is satisfied with how it is working. Our national legislature barely manages to do its most basic work (such as funding the government ...

The current Congress has enacted half as many bills through March 26 as any previous Congress did through that date going back to 1989. A longer look at the data shows that for low productivity in ...

Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington ...

If President Trump has adopted the Silicon Valley ethos of "move fast and break things" for his second term, then "move slow and get out of the way" could be the corresponding marching orders on ...

Last year, a military veteran living in Massachusetts's sixth congressional district tossed aside a piece of mail from the Veterans Administration, without realizing that the information he needed to ...

WASHINGTON — From confrontations over government funding and foreign aid to Republican threats to impeach President Joe Biden despite the lack of an impeachable offense, a divided Congress is entering ...

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The 119th Congress was sworn in Jan. 3, marking several milestones for women of color. In the Senate, two Black women are serving concurrently for the first time. And in the House, two states and one ...

This story was co-published with The Washington Post. For more than 200 years, Congress operated largely as the country’s founders envisioned — forging compromises on the biggest issues of the day ...