Congress

As the Senate speeds toward its upcoming August recess, President Donald Trump is turning up the pressure on Senate Majority Leader John Thune to keep his chamber in session and in Washington instead.  So far, that’s unlikely.  “You could stay here till Christmas” and the situation wouldn’t change, Thune said. “If I thought there was […]

Few things are certain in Congress anymore. One thing lawmakers can still count on? August recess.  But the five-week-long break for the House isn’t all fun and games — especially ahead of the tight midterm elections battle for the majority. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is packing his bags for a campaign blitz with incumbents and […]

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., defied expectations and kept his fractured conference together to pass several priority items before House members jetted home on Thursday to kick off a five-week recess.  But how much of that legislation their colleagues in the Senate will take up is a different question, as divisions continue to deepen. The House […]

The House and Senate, in votes Thursday on ending the Iran war, came to different conclusions, but the majority of voting members of Congress said it is time to bring U.S. troops home. The House, for the second time, formally called on President Donald Trump to end the war, approving 214-208 a nonbinding concurrent resolution […]

The most powerful frontier artificial intelligence models would need a “kill switch” under new bipartisan legislation released days after a frontier model went rogue to hack another AI company. The bill, introduced Thursday, would also give the Department of Homeland Security new power to order model shutdowns, as AI labs and the federal government wrestle […]

The House adopted a GOP-backed budget resolution along party lines Wednesday, taking a critical first step toward passing a $95 billion reconciliation package focused mostly on the Iran war. The vote on the fiscal 2027 budget blueprint was 216-214, with only two Republicans — Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Warren Davidson of Ohio —joining […]

Senate Republicans released a revised cryptocurrency regulatory framework bill on Wednesday with an added section intended to address public officials’ potential crypto conflicts of interest. But more work remains to be done before the measure can get to the floor. Democratic negotiators, incensed at President Donald Trump’s wealth being turbocharged by income from his family’s […]

Lawmakers took a step Wednesday toward reining in their own stock trading, a move Republicans hope will burnish Congress’ image as they head home for an extended August break. In a mostly party-line 232-198 vote, the House passed a GOP-led bill that would bar members of Congress, their spouses and dependent children from buying new […]

The Senate is on track to vote next week on President Donald Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, Jay Clayton, after he cleared a key committee hurdle. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., filed cloture on the nomination Wednesday, a day after the Senate Intelligence Committee advanced it 9-8 along party lines. A cloture […]

As Congress struggles, yet again, to pass a funding extension to head off a government shutdown this fall, House appropriators took some time Wednesday to think about other ways of doing business. For more than three hours, the Appropriations Committee debated the merits of tweaking the budget process in an effort to take shutdowns off […]