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Each year for the past six decades, congressional representatives from both sides of the aisle have come together to pass the National Defense Authorization Act. Because the bill involves the military – a traditionally popular institution – it has historically received bipartisan support.

House and Senate Democrats on Tuesday reintroduced an election overhaul package, in a rebuke to Republicans’ own measure.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog will have his work cut out for him when he addresses Congress on Wednesday in a speech seen as an attempt at salvaging the decadeslong bipartisan tradition of staunch support for Israel that in recent years has shown signs of weakening.

The Israeli president will speak to Congress on Wednesday, an attempt to salvage the bipartisan support that has become frayed.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker and his wife, MK, and a group of trial lawyers are hosting fundraisers after Biden touts his economic record in a ‘Bidenomics’ speech in Chicago.

A lawyer for the Democrats argued with a straight face before five Albany appellate justices the other week that New York’s 26 current congressional districts were only an emergency solution to a (Democratic) violation of the state Constitution last year and that the lines should now be redrawn for the…

With support from several Republicans, U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia hopes migrants brought illegally to the country as children can get out of “limbo.”

Discharge petitions have emerged as the tactic of choice for Democrats.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sat down with All Things Considered's Juana Summers to talk about the recent debt ceiling negotiations and what this says about the direction Congress is headed.

Conservatives appear ready to attempt revolt after debt ceiling deal failure

Fast action is vital if Washington is to meet next Monday’s deadline when Treasury has said the U.S. will start running short of cash to pay its bills, risking a devastating default.