President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to abolish the Department of Education. Here’s what the Department of Education does ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) reflected on last week’s bruising electoral defeats in which Republicans flipped four seats, giving them a 53-seat majority in the Senate, emphasizing Democ ...

The U.S. Senate's Democratic majority began a crusade on Tuesday to confirm as many new federal judges nominated by President ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that Republicans are “ready to deliver” on President-elect Donald Trump’s mandate. He ...

As Congress returns to Washington, they’ve got several important matters to figure out, including keeping the government ...

Returning lawmakers will be choosing the leaders for the next Congress and finishing work on the remaining priorities of the ...

Donald Trump won’t arrive back in the White House until January. But he’ll have fingerprints over every piece of the lame ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress returns to a changed Washington as President-elect Donald Trump’s hard-right agenda is quickly ...

Congress has a short but important to-do list as lawmakers return to Washington this coming week for what is known as a ...

With Republicans on cusp of unified control of Washington, Congress appears primed to extend federal funding well into ...

Republicans have consistently trashed President Joe Biden's economic agenda and his handling of our immigration crisis. Can they do better?

That came into play when Johnson was trying to avoid a government shutdown. And to do that, he had to negotiate with Democrats ... But for now, the big-ticket item is a leadership election. So Senate ...