Seven years ago last month, President Donald Trump remarked that he had “an Article 2 where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.” This statement was widely mocked during his first term ...

Taxpayers have paid more than $300,000 in confidential sexual harassment settlements on behalf of six former members of the House of Representatives or their offices, according to GOP Rep. Nancy Mace ...

Fourteen state legislatures have passed a resolution asking for something Congress could, in theory, hand them for free: term limits on its own members. They aren't asking Congress to pass a law. They ...

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The House voted 214-212 Tuesday to approve a $70 billion funding package for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection that President Donald Trump had initially said should ...

The promise of democratic governance was stolen from the people. We must win it back. You will hear no more disorienting or self-defeating a platitude uttered on Capitol Hill in this 250th year of the ...

Operation Epic Fury is over. Or at least, that’s what the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, announced on May 5, describing any further US action in the Gulf as purely “defensive”. Rubio’s insistence ...

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Reps. William Timmons, R-S.C., John McGuire, R-Va., Dan Meuser, R-Pa., Gil Cisneros, D-Calif., Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., and John James, R-Mich. — or members of ...

An obscure federal rule requires manufactured homes to be built on a chassis, making them more costly. A bill in Congress would remove the mandate, enacted five decades ago. By Matthew Goldstein ...

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President Donald Trump’s obsession with unfounded claims of election fraud has defined his second term in office. But in recent months his fixation has moved from executive nominee litmus tests and ...