Congress
Image
Trump declines to back Thune for another term as Senate Majority Leader
Thune said late Thursday that he intends to hold a vote on the motion to proceed to the budget resolution, which at this point is likely to fail.
Image
GOP Sen. Murkowski says she'll vote against Blanche confirmation, jeopardizing the nomination
Murkowski said the job needs to go to an Attorney General who will "check the worst impulses of the administration," and she doesn't think Blanche would do that.
Image
Senate Agriculture Committee fails to advance farm bill with Mitch McConnell's absence
The vote failed in a party line 10-11 split after McConnell and Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Al, were absent. Both senators tried to vote by proxy, but the votes did not count toward the final tally.
Image
Pro-life and other conservatives fuming over the re-funding of Planned Parenthood
While Republicans did push last year to make the defunding permanent or at least make it a decade-long defunding of Planned Parenthood, the Senate parliamentarian forced them to cut it back to a one-year measure.
Image
Speaker Johnson plans to pass SAVE America Act 'one more time' in hope that Senate will cooperate
“The president has that as a top priority, and so do I,” Johnson said on Fox News Sunday. “We passed it three times in the House. We’re going to try one more time on a budget reconciliation bill."
Image
Army vet turned congressman seeks to boost military hazard pay
Rep. Abe Hamadeh, R-Ariz., recently introduced the Combat Pay Protection Act.
Image
GOP hardliners vow to blockade must-pass bills unless voter ID demands met
Fight led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla.
Image
Mitch McConnell may have suffered a heart attack last month, was found 'unconscious' in his DC home
McConnell served as both Minority and Majority Leader of the Senate GOP from 2007 until January 2025. In February 2025 he announced that he wouldn’t be seeking re-election to an eighth term in 2026.
Image
Democratic Socialist candidates expand appeal, some Democrats see potential obstruction, chaos
Just as many saw the Freedom Caucus of hard-right legislators as a "splinter" group from traditional Republicans, the now growing cohort of Democratic Socialists can wield outsized influence in a narrowly divided House of Representatives. Centrist Democrats are worried about their party being hijacked.
Image
Tennessee congressman Ogles introduces bill to ban 'birthright tourism'
Rep. Andy Ogles blasts recent Supreme Court decision as proof of an “all-too-powerful judiciary.”
Image
House cancels votes for remainder of week, sends lawmakers home amid tension over SAVE America Act
The House was initially expected to have votes on Wednesday and Thursday, but House Republican leaders canceled those votes and have now sent lawmakers home after final votes took place at 5:15 p.m. Eastern.
Image
Democrats expected to split over Massie's amendment on Israel funding: Report
Massie tacked the amendment onto a national security and State Department spending bill that is expected to come up for a vote this week.
Image
NY Democrat calls for greater transparency after NJ Rep reveals he was hospitalized for depression
Kean said the diagnosis came when he entered the hospital for "some testing," and the depression left him under the doctors' care while he spent months recovering.