This year has, unfortunately, provided some excellent illustrations of Congress’s dysfunction. We are currently emerging from a record-long shutdown. Senate Democrats filibustered funding in a doomed ...

Appropriators say the Pentagon has yet to explain how it plans to spend the $23 billion Congress allocated for the Golden ...

Senate Republicans have been mulling whether to again use a powerful yet divisive legislative process, and tackling the unfolding Minnesota fraud scandal could be at the top of the list. Congressional ...

Republicans plan "reconciliation 2.0" bill targeting housing and healthcare costs after Democrats' wins, but face brutal math ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill stands alone as the 119th Congress’ most extraordinary piece of legislation — but it doesn’t have to. Under the Senate’s rules, congressional Republicans can use the ...

Using the reconciliation process to dig the hole deeper has become an engineering feat with bipartisan concurrence.

Compromise spending bill reflects a $6.5 billion increase over the president’s budget request for shipbuilding—and corrects ...

WASHINGTON — Five months ago, the story of the first session of the 119th Congress was expected to be the passage of President Donald Trump’s signature policy legislation known as the One Big ...

To the editor: To a significant extent, the Senate filibuster is already in jeopardy (“The U.S. Senate is a mess. He wants to fix it, from the inside,” Dec. 11). Republicans have shown a willingness ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is coming under increasing pressure from Senate Republican colleagues to bring health care legislation to the Senate floor amid fears of a Democratic wave in ...

An influential group of House Republicans is eyeing numerous energy and environment policies for a second party-line bill. House Republicans officially kicked off their pursuit of a second budget ...