On Tuesday, the Texas state Senate was scheduled to pass major bills on funding transportation, permitting the death penalty for 17-year-olds, and putting sweeping restrictions on abortion in the ...

Catch up on the political news of the past week in the latest At the Races newsletter, including budget resolutions and retirements.

Sen. Mitch McConnell was a generational force for the Republican Party — using procedural tactics and political will to stymie much of former President Barack Obama’s agenda, hand President Donald ...

The rest, as they say, is history. The national flag — to be clear, the first official national flag of Canada — became law ...

Arizona's Democratic senators have been on the losing end of every confirmation they opposed since President Donald Trump ...

Without an independent judiciary, the Constitution would be no match for Donald Trump’s authoritarian impulses.

That’s the title of my new Confirmation Tales post, which explores how Fifth Circuit nominee William Pryor went from being trapped in filibuster ... expired at the end of the Senate’s 2005 ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies Jan. 29, 2025, at his confirmation hearing. President Donald Trump named RFK Jr. to serve as secretary of Health and Human ...

Republicans are considering doing away with one of Wall Street’s favorite tax breaks at the encouragement of President Trump, ...

The U.S. has roughly one month until the government runs out of money, and the talks to avoid that are a mess, writes Philip ...

More than 200 House and Senate Republicans are backing a bill to repeal the federal estate tax just as congressional ...