President Donald Trump recently signed $174.7 billion spending legislation. The White House said little upon signing the Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior ...
President Donald Trump’s first year of his second, nonconsecutive term brought all sorts of changes. His administration shuttered the United States Agency ...
The 119th Congress returned to the U.S. Capitol recently. They have an immense amount of work to get done, policy ...
Congress returned to work in Washington, and one of the first issues lawmakers addressed was government health insurance subsidies. These temporary, ...
A poll in Des Mines, Iowa, November 2022. Source: Wikimedia Commons, Phil Roeder. Few would seriously argue that Congress today is ...
The House has spent much of the last two months of this year trying to catch up on its work. It passed 22 ...
Gene L. Dodaro is not a household name. He is a mild-mannered man who is rarely seen without a necktie and ...
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) hands the Speaker's gavel to Mike Johnson (R-LA) on October 25, 2023. Source: C-SPAN. By Max ...
Worries about Congress’s capacity to carry out its constitutional duties are not new. In 1965, leaders of the American Enterprise ...
The U.S government’s debt hit $37.6 trillion on Sept. 30, the end of the most recent fiscal year. To put ...
Source: USAFacts.org The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 requires Congress to pass twelve appropriations bills before the September ...
Kathy Goldschmidt, State of the Congress 2024: An Assessment of the Civility, Functionality, and Capacity of the 118th Congress by ...
President Donald Trump recently moved to cancel $4.9 billion in spending on foreign aid, the latest skirmish in the battle for control ...
Before leaving Washington for the August recess, the Senate advanced the annual legislative branch spending bill. The measure proposes $4.97 billion in spending on ...
Soren Dayton and Josiah Watney, Making the Rules of the House: How factional politics overcame the Rules Committee in the ...
Bipartisan Policy Center, Legislating After Loper, March 2025. In March 2025, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Working Group on Congress, Courts, and ...
Mickey Edward, ed., Reports of The Princeton Initiative on Restoring the Constitutional Powers of Congress, Princeton School of Public and ...
Something remarkable occurred on Capitol Hill this month: Congress and the president partnered to make a law that cut the budgets of ...
Media stories erupted recently about Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) financial dealings. “Stock market watchdog claims Nancy Pelosi raked in $4.7M in a single ...
Who is in charge of the Library of Congress: Congress or the president? Until recently, the settled answer in Washington was ...
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