President Joseph Biden is attempting to push through Congress sweeping legislation that would remake American society, measures compared in their brea . . .
Insiders and historians say the filibuster is what makes the Senate what it is, and different from the House. Others say that is precisely the problem . . .
Almost as soon as Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term as president on January 20, 2025, a blizzard of executive orders hit the country. The orders touched on a variety of the pre . . .
Seldom has the Senate been so vexed over major presidential Cabinet nominations as the chamber was when President Trump rolled out Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for He . . .
On January 24, 2025, the newly minted vice president, Republican JD Vance, cast a tie-breaking vote on the Senate floor in favor of confirming former Fox News h . . .
In November 2024, the 118th Congress returned for the lame duck session. In this Congress Report, congressional expert and Washington columnist Jamie Stiehm pre . . .
June brought the most bruising partisan battles on Capitol Hill that the 118th Congress has seen so far. In this Congress Report, congressional expert and Washi . . .
They say that Congress, especially the House of Representatives, is the heart of the country in miniature. In this Congress Report, congressional expert and Washington journalist, Jamie St . . .
On March 7, President Joe Biden will deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. In this Congress Report, former congressional report . . .
In this Congress Report, congressional expert and Washington journalist, Jamie Stiehm, discusses how the House of Representatives presented a stark contrast on . . .
In Spring 2023, Congress and the Biden White House were at an impasse over whether to raise the debt limit to avoid default. The Treasury had indicated that def . . .
Over the country’s history, there have been more than seventy senators who represented third parties or did not identify with any party. In this . . .
It is the second November election ritual that takes place every two years, after dust settles on the midterm and presidential elections: the inside . . .
In June 2022, Congress passed gun legislation, in the wake of ongoing carnage that included the deaths of ten people in a mass shooting targeting Blac . . .
As televisions became a more and more popular medium in the 1950s, Americans were allowed a wide window into the world of congressional hearings. In t . . .
The complex Electoral College has led American democracy down a fraught presidential path many times: in 1800, 1876, 2000, 2016 and most memorably on . . .
Brinksmanship is nothing new when it comes to congressional negotiations, but this year's stalemate over raising or suspending the country’s deb . . .
Bipartisanship has left the House of Representatives, and virtually every vote shows this, with the blue House majority barely edging the Republicans . . .
The United States is in the midst of an unusual political time, and among the quirkier features of 2021 is the current 50–50 Senate, composed of . . .
Impeachment is the ultimate political punishment, a concept the American constitutional framers borrowed from English law governing the Houses of Parliament. Ye . . .
In the last 117th Congress, it was no secret in the House of Representatives that the Democratic Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and House Republican leader, Kevin McCar . . .
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