WASHINGTON—Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Mitt Romney (R-Utah) want parents of newborn or adopted children to be able ...

WASHINGTON—Hiring a bigger and better-paid staff is “the first step” to reversing the many years Congress has “intentionally ...

WASHINGTON—Attorney General William Barr “did the right thing on the Mueller report," but “he’s got to look at ...

WASHINGTON—Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham warned Democrats on March 25 against making the same mistake House Republicans ...

WASHINGTON—A titanic legal battle looms following House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler’s (D-N.Y.) March 19 warning that President ...

WASHINGTON—Among Nancy Pelosi’s first moves as Speaker of the House was to create the Select Committee on the ...

WASHINGTON—Increasingly frequent and costly ransomware attacks by hackers stealing proprietary business intelligence, classified military technology, and valuable personal ...

WASHINGTON—Far from signaling the end of House Democrats’ impeachment effort against President Donald Trump, Speaker of the House ...

WASHINGTON—Republicans Mike Braun of Indiana and Rick Scott of Florida may be the least popular freshmen with veteran ...

WASHINGTON—Senate Democrats have forced cloture votes 128 times on President Donald Trump nominees to the federal courts and ...

WASHINGTON—A group of 12 House Democrats and eight Republicans are backing legislation to “claw back power from the ...

News Analysis WASHINGTON—As thousands of political leaders and activists from across the country convene Feb. 28 just outside ...

A video reaction shot of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) responding critically to President Donald Trump’s State of the ...

Eric Miller, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is heading for confirmation ...

WASHINGTON—A venerable Senate tradition known as “blue slips” could become the next casualty of Democrats increasingly frequent imposition ...

WASHINGTON—Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is among Saudi Arabia’s staunchest U.S. critics, but two of the principals in a ...

News Analysis WASHINGTON—It’s difficult to imagine how the authors of the Constitution could have been more clear on ...

WASHINGTON—Then-Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) called them “the gateway drug to federal spending addiction” in 2006. Tea Partiers forced ...

News Analysis WASHINGTON—New Deal-era humorist Will Rogers—who famously said he was “not a member of any organized political ...

Elderly Americans have fewer friends and family nearby than previous generations, which pushes Medicare and Medicaid costs up. ...

WASHINGTON—Generous tax-funded pensions for members of Congress would be abolished under a proposal introduced in the Senate on ...

WASHINGTON—Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) and his Republican colleagues are sick and tired of Democrats constantly delaying confirmation of ...

News Analysis Sen. Kamala Harris impressed political observers by attracting an estimated 20,000 people in Oakland, California, on ...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and 15 House Republicans led by Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) think they can end ...

WASHINGTON—Increasing affluence and education levels seen in a dozen key congressional districts in Midwestern states that flipped to Democrat ...

WASHINGTON—Four of the Senate’s most conservative Republicans are encouraging President Donald Trump to send hundreds of captured ISIS ...

Eyebrows were raised among Democratic officials and activists on Jan. 21 when Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) announced her ...