On the Senate floor yesterday, Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) have a back-and-forth conversation ...

The Senate has confirmed former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital, filling ...

US Lawmakers skipped a sanctions vote, giving Russia sanctions decisions to Trump as his 8 August deadline approaches.

Schumer declined to get into the details but he reportedly asked the White House to unfreeze about $1 billion of foreign aid and National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding in exchange for allowing ...

With a combination of executive orders, legal maneuvers and staffing decisions, President Donald Trump has already put in ...

From the South to the Great Lakes, contested primaries and open Senate seat battles will determine who's serving for ...

It seems too early, but it’s not. Just as Democrats are plotting how to win the next presidential election, Republican ...

The requests have come in letters, emails and phone calls. The specifics vary, but the target is consistent: The U.S. Department of Justice is ...

Twenty-four years later, the term “gerrymander” was coined when the Democratic-Republican Party drew a salamander-shaped state Senate district to benefit Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry. The Boston ...

Democrats had little desire to give in without the spending cut reversals or some other incentive, even though they too were ...