The photograph of Sonia Gandhi hugging Mamata Banerjee offered a striking visual contrast to the often-fraught relationship ...

The budget reconciliation process stands as President Donald Trump’s and congressional Republicans’ best—and likely only—hope to pass their agenda through Congress. While this policymaking mechanism ...

The House has approved President Trump’s request to claw back billions of dollars already appropriated for things like foreign aid and public media. That request now goes to the Senate, which will ...

Much of the news in Congress this year had little to do with actual legislation, but lawmakers did manage to send 27 bills to President Biden's desk for a signature. That's a dramatic productivity ...

Republicans in Congress have been making behind-the-scenes efforts to pass major domestic legislation via the federal budget process. They include potential cuts to Medicaid and extending the 2017 ...

With Americans having voted on Election Day, those voters weighed in on races for statewide office, local positions and on ballot initiatives with major implications for democracy. Congress was not on ...