Everton Blair joined the House Tuesday, narrowing Speaker Mike Johnson’s majority for the final legislative stretch before the November midterm elections.
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed the most significant housing legislation in decades on a 358-32 vote, sending to President Donald Trump’s desk a bill with rare bipartisan backing that’s aimed at showing action on voters’ affordability concerns.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts and ranking member of Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, on April 21, 2026.
The Senate passed a sweeping housing bill on Monday, bringing Washington one step closer to enacting the most significant housing legislation in a generation.
The US Capitol Building on the National Mall in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, June 13, 2026. A Washington federal judge wrestled with how reversible President Donald Trump's efforts to change the color of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool would be, in the latest lawsuit targeting Trump's moves to renovate some of Washington's historic landmarks. Photographer: Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg
House members, spouses, and dependent children would be barred from wagering on prediction markets under legislation unveiled Thursday by Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wis.), chairman of the Administration Committee.
The US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, June 15, 2026. The Senate will vote on an updated version of a bipartisan affordable housing legislative package this week, according to Senate aides, marking the latest step after months of negotiations as lawmakers in the House and Senate pushed competing versions of the bill.
President Donald Trump’s nomination of Todd Blanche to lead the US Justice Department was met with cautious optimism by a key Republican senator who has repeatedly split with the administration on other issues.
Some key Republicans in Congress are throwing cold water on prospects for passing a third party-line budget bill, even as House GOP leaders insist they can move another mammoth legislative package this summer.
The US Capitol in Washington. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is launching its first general election attack ad against Rep. Tom Kean (R-N.J.) on Friday, targeting him for trading stocks while missing votes in Washington.
The nameplate of Representative Tom Kean during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in the Capitol in Washington on June 3.
The Justice Department told senators that President Donald Trump and his sons won’t financially benefit from a new $1.8 billion fund to address victims of government “weaponization” and assured them the money would carry no partisan restrictions.
President Donald Trump’s call for Congress to attach his signature voter ID bill to unrelated bipartisan legislation is running up against a reality check.
A voter casts their ballot at a polling location inside Trinity United Methodist Church during a special election in Alexandria, Virginia, US, on Tuesday, April 21, 2026. America's year-long redistricting battles are nearing their end: Virginia voters on Tuesday will decide whether to give Democrats a three-seat boost in this year's midterm election, while Florida Republicans will have the chance next week to counter with their own congressional map to even the score. Photographer: Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg
Speaker Mike Johnson called suspending the federal gas tax “an intriguing idea” but didn’t commit to a timeline as momentum builds in both chambers to take action.
A driver pays at a fuel pump at a gas station in Columbus, Ohio.
Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) introduced a resolution Thursday that would amend the House rules to ban members and their staff from trading on prediction markets.
Representative Ashley Hinson, a Republican from Iowa, during a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, May 15, 2025. The US Federal Trade Commission has spent the past four weeks presenting internal documents and emails and grilling various Meta executives, including Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, as part of its argument that the social networking giant should be broken up.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) have settled into a routine to navigate difficult politics: Johnson tells his members yes and Thune tells the House no.
Senate Majority John Thune and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson
House Republicans unveiled their latest plan to extend a US spy powers tool after a week of rebellion from privacy hawks forced leadership to settle for a 10-day extension as they worked through negotiations.
US House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks during a news conference at the US Capitol in Washington.
The House Ethics Committee gave unusual insight into its sexual misconduct investigations Monday, saying it has initiated 20 probes since 2017 while also encouraging those with knowledge of wrongdoing to come forward.
The seal of the House of Representatives on a podium.
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