House Democrats want to restore earmarks next year despite new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections that the federal ...

News Analysis Senate Democrats have virtually no chance of stopping Republicans in the chamber from confirming a sixth ...

U.S. taxpayers fund more than 160 overlapping federal housing programs at an annual cost of more than $50 ...

A top Google executive was confronted repeatedly on Sept. 15 by Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary ...

A Senate subcommittee continued its investigation Tuesday of recurring claims that Google, the $1 trillion Silicon Valley hi-tech ...

Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), the top Republican on the House Committee on Administration, says congressional Democratic leaders still ...

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) named the mayors of Seattle, New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Portland, Oregon, as ...

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and 11 of his Senate colleagues have signed a “Back the Blue” pledge circulated ...

Nearly $14 billion of investment in delayed pipeline projects in 14 states—including five “battleground” contests in the 2020 ...

Opensecrets.org, a pioneer in bringing transparency to money in politics, has unveiled a new database that tracks campaign ...

Millions of young and minority voters are at risk of their votes not being counted in November due ...

Public corruption prosecutions have declined since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, according to a new study by ...

San Francisco’s London Breed is America’s highest-paid mayor—being paid a $342,974 salary, plus $109,447 in perks, for a ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) wanted to leave no doubt about his position when the Freedom From Religion Foundation ...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and 19 Republican Senate colleagues, plus 71 House Republicans, want the Food and Drug ...

Las Vegas Police Officer Melodie DePierro is the latest in a growing line of public sector employees suing ...

News Analysis If voters elect Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to the nation’s highest office in November, those ...

President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden are all but dead-even in four key battleground states ...

News Analysis When President Barack Obama signed into law his $787 billion economic recovery program in February 2009, ...

Other than offering brief criticism of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) branding President Donald Trump and ...

News Analysis Readers needn't bother searching the websites of The Washington Post, The New York Times, or The ...

Federal departments and agencies shelled out more than $12.2 billion on Sept. 30, 2019, the last day of ...

A report questioning the legitimacy of the top two Department of Homeland Security officials’ appointments was written by ...

Students were supposed to return to classes Aug. 17 in the Phoenix suburb of San Tan Valley, but ...

President Donald Trump’s recent executive order suspending payroll tax collection will put extra money in millions of Americans’ ...

When Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas concurred in February 2019 in denying Katherine McKee’s request for a review ...

News Analysis Among the biggest unanswered questions in the nation’s capital is how many federal government programs taxpayers ...