In past years, Democratic President Joe Biden, Trump and even a senator, Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky, have received votes for House speaker. None received the majority of the vote. And generally, ...

Following the state funeral in Washington, President Carter's remains will then be transported from the nation's capitol, back to Georgia, where a private ceremony will take place at Maranatha Baptist ...

Johnson appeared to be on a path to defeat when five Republicans sat silently as their clerk called their names for a vote. Three others — Republican Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Ralph Norman of ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Peter Welch were both chosen to serve on the committee that oversees taxation, tariffs, and trade.

Friday marks the start of the 119th United States Congress as new members are scheduled to be sworn in on Capitol Hill. As ...

Senator Tammy Baldwin is sworn in once again as a member of the U.S. Senate. Baldwin beat out Republican candidate Eric Hovde ...

With the new Congress now in session, lawmakers have a busy agenda in front of them from government funding to cabinet confirmations.

The Senate’s events marked one of Harris’s last constitutional duties as president of the Senate before she and President Joe Biden depart from office on Jan. 20 and Trump and Vice President-elect J.D ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Mike Johnson narrowly won reelection Friday to the House speakership on a first ballot, ...

In a Town Hall discussion on the controversial Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project (MPRP), lawmakers, energy experts, and policy makers spoke about the variou ...

President Biden Friday followed through on a promise to block the sale of US Steel to Japanese-owned Nippon Steel, citing national security reasons.

Gallego will serve on several committees, including banking, energy and natural resources, homeland security and governmental affairs, and veterans' affairs.