4+ hour, 38+ min ago   (140+ words) UNITED STATES - JANUARY 9: Rep. Michael Baumgartner, R-Wash., hands off "The Chick" painting to Rep. Emily Randall, D-Wash., as members of the Washington State delegation look on, in Longworth building on Friday, January 9, 2026. The painting goes to the newest member of…...

15+ hour, 14+ min ago   (1024+ words) Kentucky Rep. James R. Comer said Thursday he is pushing to use a government funding deadline this month to secure a delay in the implementation of an intoxicating hemp ban enacted in November that critics say puts some farmers at financial…...

19+ hour, 42+ min ago   (81+ words) From left, Republican Sen. Steve Daines of Montana, Greenland's Minister of Foreign Affairs Vivian Motzfeldt, Denmark's Minister for Foreign Affairs Lars Lokke Rasmussen, and Democratic Sens. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Tammy Duckworth of Illinois and Tim Kaine of Virginia…...

1+ day, 23+ min ago   (1347+ words) Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who'd like to get this newsletter? They'can subscribe here. All eyes have been on Minnesota over the past…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1117+ words) The House easily passed a package of two fiscal 2026 appropriations bills with broad bipartisan support Wednesday, teeing up a second set of long-delayed spending bills for the Senate to consider." The $76.6 billion package bundles the final negotiated versions of the…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (153+ words) Sen. Raphael Warnock, center, joins gospel choirs from Howard University and the Metropolitan Baptist Church in singing gospel musician Rev. Richard'Smallwood's "Total Praise" outside the Capitol on Wednesday. The Georgia Democrat introduced a resolution honoring Smallwood, who died on Dec....

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (438+ words) A panel of three federal judges in California declined to halt the state's new congressional map Wednesday, rejecting claims the new lines were racial gerrymanders and allowing the map for this year's midterm elections. The 2-1 decision, written after the judges…...

2+ day, 16+ min ago   (299+ words) A federal judge appeared open to siding with House Democrats at a hearing Wednesday over a new Department of Homeland Security guidance restricting congressional oversight visits to immigration detention facilities. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote in the newest guidance…...

2+ day, 29+ min ago   (1152+ words) Iran has become the foreign policy thorn Donald Trump can't seem to extract from his proverbial side as lawmakers and leaders from both parties express uncertainty over the president's promised response to deadly protests there. Trump flew to Detroit on…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (832+ words) The Supreme Court's conservative majority sounded ready to uphold bans on transgender girls competing in girls' sports, during oral arguments Tuesday in challenges to state laws in Idaho and West Virginia. Across more than three hours of arguments in the…...