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The latest defense funding bill, passed by the House of Representatives this week, includes a provision that would establish a new office to investigate sightings in the sky of objects ...

News Analysis The U.S. House of Representatives has approved legislation that would end American support for Saudi Arabia ...

The House of Representatives approved a bill on Sept. 24 that, if the Senate follows suit and the ...

The Biden administration on Thursday started to tell federal agencies to start preparing for a potential government shutdown ...

President Joe Biden's proposal for a radical expansion of IRS monitoring of Americans' bank accounts would be stopped ...

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), one of the longest-serving U.S. senators, is running for reelection, he announced on Sept. ...

Bipartisan congressional negotiations on police reform broke down this week after months of work. Sens. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) ...

The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives on Thursday passed its version of a $768 billion defense policy bill for ...

The House of Representatives panel formed to investigate the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol breach has issued its first ...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) indicated Thursday that he and President Joe Biden, who has been deeply involved in ...

The House of Representatives on Sept. 23 overwhelmingly passed a bill to provide $1 billion for Israel's Iron ...

At a weekly press conference Thursday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck ...

Several Democrats in Congress have expressed concern about the looming U.S. deficit default and government shutdown next month, ...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Lily Batchelder to serve as assistant secretary for tax policy at the ...

The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works approved Jeff Prieto as general counsel for the U.S. Environmental ...

Senate Republicans won't vote to raise the country's debt limit because of Democrats' plans to spend trillions of ...

A bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate is aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic in rural areas of ...

In a statement from Rep. Steve Scalise's (R-La.) office Wednesday, the House Minority Whip said that Republican leadership ...

A U.S. default on the national debt would be a "catastrophic blow" to the country's economic recovery from ...

In an impassioned speech on the Senate floor Wednesday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) defended President Joe Biden's sweeping ...

House Rules Committee Democrats quietly extended a rule earlier this week covering consideration of the National Defense Authorization ...

The House on Sept. 21 unanimously passed a bipartisan measure that would authorize payments to victims of likely ...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) on Sept. 21 offered a competing short-term government funding ...

The House of Representatives voted late Tuesday to pass a bill that would avert a government shutdown and ...

FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Sept. 21 that restrictions on encrypted chat services are needed to combat ...

On Tuesday, Democrats in the House Committee on Appropriations unveiled the text of their continuing resolution to fund ...

WASHINGTON—Opposition is growing to a new proposal aimed at curbing tax evasion that would be part of the ...