For all the lawmakers who’ve announced plans to retire from congressional service after 2026, there’s a long list of former members from both parties who want to be back in Congress. They range from ...

The Senate followed the House in leaving for the Christmas break on Thursday, clearing another batch of President Donald Trump’s nominations but kicking to January the fate of the next handful of ...

Congress is preparing to use the War Powers Resolution’s fast-track machinery to force a recorded vote on whether President Trump must end U.S. “hostilities within or against Venezuela” that Congress ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee threatened Friday to begin contempt of Congress proceedings against former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton if they ...

The U.S. Capitol building on Veterans Day. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) When the government shutdown ended last month without any solution for the looming expiration of Affordable Care Act subsidies, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, arrives for a closed-door meeting Tuesday with fellow Republicans at the Capitol. (J. Scott ...

Congress is moving to limit the Pentagon’s ability to pull forces out of Europe and South Korea, easing concerns among allied governments. The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, finalized by ...

Ahead of next year’s midterms, a number of members from both major parties have already announced they’re heading for the exits, either because they’re seeking higher office, simply aren’t running ...

Congress has been back after the week-plus Thanksgiving Day break. And days are slipping off the calendar as lawmakers struggle to assemble a plan to address health care or defray the cost of spiking ...

Congress is almost out of time to extend enhanced Obamacare subsidies that would avert skyrocketing health care premiums for tens of millions of Americans next year. And with GOP leaders far from a ...

When the president unexpectedly fired the librarian of Congress, a prominent legislator denounced the “open despotism which now rules at Washington.” The year was 1829, and as Andrew Jackson installed ...