The Supreme Court denied two emergency requests to restart the redrawing of Louisiana's congressional map, a process that was likely to add a second majority-Black district. A map passed by Louisiana’s Republican-controlled legislature is currently blocked by a federal district judge’s preliminary ruling, which sided with a group of Black voters racial justice organizations’ claims...
The Senate voted unanimously Thursday afternoon, 97-0, in favor of a resolution stating the Senate stands firmly with Israel and firmly against Hamas. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who withheld his support for the resolution earlier in the week, was able to get language added to the resolution to make clear that it should not...
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) said he will do “everything possible” to prevent the empowering of Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.). “I’m against ‘Speaker Light’,” Gaetz said in a clip posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter Thursday. “I’m against Bud Light. I believe it is a constitutional desecration to not elect...
House conservatives are bashing a bipartisan effort to temporarily expand Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry's powers to move legislation as interim speaker.
The Biden administration plans to submit an emergency funding request for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan to the Senate this week, Sen. Chuck Schumer said Thursday.
The House is in historic territory with a proposal to empower Patrick McHenry as an interim speaker. And it's unclear whether enough Republicans would support the plan anyway.
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested after flooding into the Cannon Rotunda on Capitol Hill with signs and chants. Here's what protesters had to say.
The nonprofit linked to conservative judicial activist and major fundraiser Leonard Leo has registered to lobby.
The Concord Fund said in a filing that...
GOP Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is introducing an executive order to require the state government to use words that "celebrate gender distinctions between men and women – not erase them."
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are quizzing the Biden administration over its decision-making related to border wall construction at the southern border.