For starters, Congress’s failure to address and resolve the major challenges facing the country — immigration, runaway budget and trade deficits, climate, rising inequality of income ...

Advocates are wondering what Congress could do next to flex its authority over the nation’s capital, after a scramble over unexpected budget cuts sent hundreds of locals and their kids to plead ...

WASHINGTON — The path to avert a government shutdown at the end of the week remains murky in the Republican-controlled Congress. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is eyeing a House vote Tuesday on a ...

During one session, the bishops picked the official logo of the Asian Mission Congress 2025 (AMC 2025), scheduled in Penang, Malaysia, from 27 to 30 November centred on the theme “The Great ...

President Donald Trump’s speech before a joint session of Congress put the final nail in the coffin of the Democrats' recognition as the political party of compassion – which was first ...

“Oh, the vision thing,” was his infamous dismissal of the idea. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the “Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises ...

Women make up 28% of voting members in the 119th Congress – on par with their share in the last Congress, but a considerable increase from where things stood even 10 years ago. As of the new Congress’ ...

I helped write the bill that imposed mandatory minimum sentences for crack cocaine. It was a mistake that should not be repeated. By Eric E. Sterling, counsel to the House Subcommittee on Crime In ...

President Donald Trump addressed Congress and the American people Tuesday night as he laid out his plans for the months ahead. First-term Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan offered the Democrats ...

WASHINGTON — Washington, D.C., which has often had a tenuous peace with the federal government when Republicans controlled Congress and the White House, is now facing its most urgent threat ...

During his first speech before Congress of his second term, President Donald Trump discussed border patrol protection, the recent signing of the Laken Riley Act, and his proposed request to ...

At Trump’s speech last week to a joint session of Congress, Democratic lawmakers sat in the House chamber holding up paddles reading “False.” Late night talk show hosts mocked that bit of ...