Voters gave Mr. Trump a Republican-controlled Congress, and those lawmakers are within their right to try to pass the ...

A U.S. president has the authority to not spend (or impound) funds provided by Congress, but a legal procedure must be ...

In the short term, it’s brilliant. That’s a different story. Trump’s tally of approximately 60 executive orders in his first ...

Analysis: Democratic leaders are under more pressure than ever to play hardball with a government shutdown, writes John Bowden ...

took to the Senate floor and started what she hoped would be a 13-hour filibuster of the abortion bill. If Davis managed to keep the floor until midnight, the special legislative session would end ...

Part of the attention on the filibuster comes after the 2023-24 legislative session, when senators considered 78 cloture motions, 58 alone in 2023, the most in any year in legislative history.

Funding for the government expires March 14. Republicans will need Democratic votes to keep the government open. They’ll need ...

Now that it’s cleared committee in a 21 to 16 vote, Republicans intend to wrangle that blueprint through the House of ...

2015—Never mind Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s repeated explanation at her confirmation hearing in 1993 that the judicial obligation of impartiality required that she give “no hints, no forecasts, no ...

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NEW PALTZ— On November 5, incumbent Pat Ryan won the congressional race for New York’s 18th District with nearly 57 percent of the vote, beating Republican challenger Alison Esposito. Esposito ...