The lame-duck Congress returned to work in Washington, and newly elected members of Congress arrived for their orientation.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said at a press conference that Reps. Gregory W. Meeks, D-N.Y., and Jim Himes, D-Conn., the ranking members of the Foreign Affairs and Intelligence ...

With stopgap funding set to expire in less than a month, Senate Republican appropriators Thursday unveiled a roughly $5.3 billion draft fiscal 2027 Legislative Branch spending bill that would boost ...

A group of prominent Senate Democrats is pushing to use a must-pass spending bill to cut off funding for the Iran war, complicating the path toward a bipartisan deal for averting a partial government ...

In an opinion piece in The Boston Globe, consultant Kristin Tate urged New England Republicans to focus on fiscal discipline ...

Paul LePage, the former Maine governor who once said he was “Donald Trump before Donald Trump,” is heading to Congress. The ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday shut down his administration’s on-again-off-again talks with Iran, saying he would not ...

President Donald Trump’s postelection statements about working with Democrats have presented the incoming majority with a kaleidoscope to decipher, but some Democratic lawmakers have their doubts. On ...

Democrat Scott Colom has unseated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith to become Mississippi’s first Black senator since ...

Ky., announced Wednesday he plans to serve as the top Republican on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee when ...

A discharge petition led by Massie aimed at extracting more files from the Justice Department has now received enough support ...

Independents made up 33 percent of the electorate; Democrats were at 35 percent and Republicans at 32 percent. This is the ...