Amid an unpopular war with Iran and slumping poll numbers linked to a sluggish economy, President Donald Trump resorted to name-calling Wednesday in a bid to boost Ed Gallrein in his GOP primary ...

Texas is more than a thousand miles away from Capitol Hill, but the race between Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for the state’s Senate seat Wednesday centered on a D.C.-centric ...

Republican Rep. Kevin Hern, a fiscal hawk with a pro-business outlook, is running for Oklahoma’s newly open Senate seat. The former McDonald’s franchise owner, who has served four terms in the House, ...

Senate Republican leadership is not budging against pressure to use a so-called talking filibuster to pass the party’s voter identification legislation, despite President Donald Trump’s adding weight ...

Democrat Shawn Harris and Clayton Fuller, a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump, were the top two finishers in Tuesday’s nonpartisan special election to fill GOP former Rep. Marjorie Taylor ...

After Illinois Sen. Richard J. Durbin announced his retirement plans last year, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi dug into his substantial war chest, becoming the first candidate in the race to air television ...

Two key Trump administration officials huddled with Senate Republicans behind closed doors Wednesday to discuss a powerful but controversial surveillance authority that expires next month, an issue ...

Now that a long-delayed plaque honoring officers who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack has been given a temporary place on the Senate side, some say they aren’t giving up their ...

Rand Paul, R-Ky., voted "no" as he’s long promised due to the resolution’s allowance for raising the statutory debt limit by up to $5 trillion.

Congressional attendance was up in 2025, in spite of off-year elections, a number of members beset with health crises and the political turmoil that marked President Donald Trump’s return to the White ...

As most Republicans avoided questions last month about allegations Rep. Tony Gonzales had an affair with a staffer who later died by suicide, three GOP women made their demands clear: their colleague ...

Senate Democrats stepped up pressure on Republicans to conduct public hearings on the conduct of the Iran war, but senior GOP senators were noncommittal on whether they would do so. The partisan ...