Jan. 1 (UPI) --The new year brings many old challenges for members of Congress who will face a tightening timeline for work on a revived social spending bill, voting rights, a probe into the Capitol ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Now that the U.S. House finally has a speaker, the 118 th Congress can get down to ...

Fiscal year 2022 is on track to be the worst year for military recruiting in the U.S. Military readiness and capability are already affected. A recruiting shortfall translates directly to units with ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Dec. 15 passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 with broad bipartisan support in a 89-10 vote. The House passed the bill Dec. 7 by a margin of 363 ...

A snowman stands outside the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 7. (Patrick Semansky/AP) Both chambers of Congress return to Capitol Hill this week for the official start of 2022 legislative work, ...

FIRST IN HUDDLE: IN-DEPTH HILL STAFF SURVEY — Congress is broken, but not beyond repair. That seems to be a major takeaway from a survey of a key cohort of Congressional staff about the “State of the ...

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Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, right, and Matt Gaetz hold a news conference Nov. 17, 2022. The lawmakers have expressed concern about the government funding Ukraine’s defense. (Alex ...

All eyes are on New York state when it comes to control of the House of Representatives, with as many as 10 competitive races out of the state’s 26 seats. And with Democrats holding a slim, eight-vote ...

Washington — When Congress convenes on Monday to count Electoral College votes from each state and finalize President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the November presidential election, the violent ...

A Lubbock, Texas, federal judge ruled Tuesday that lawmakers unconstitutionally passed the $1.7 trillion government funding bill in 2022 when they did so under a pandemic-era rule allowing members of ...