The 119th Congress will be the first one in recent years to buck the general trend of more racial, gender, age and ethnic ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared headed for defeat before two Republicans switched their vote, delivering him a majority.

President Jimmy Carter was honored in a state funeral in Washington on Thursday, alongside a private memorial in Georgia.

These rank-and-file members of both parties in the narrowly divided House could have an outsize role in the national debate ...

Four prominent current and former Congressional Black Caucus members endorsed Martin O’Malley's bid to chair the Democratic ...

A group of younger lawmakers is pressing to change House rules to allow members who are new parents to vote remotely.

Exploring the meaning of seniority in all of its American manifestations.

The combined roster of U.S. senators and representatives who served in the armed forces will drop to double-digits when Sen.

Still, even a one-person jump in the number of veterans in Congress is significant, because an increase in members with ...

The 119th Congress convenes Friday with a huge shift of power in Washington as the GOP takes control of both chambers ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration.

A joint session of Congress is set to convene on Monday afternoon to certify President-elect Donald J. Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, performing a basic ritual of democracy that was brutally ...

Vets among Utah’s historical Congressional ranks While none of the Beehive State’s current members of Congress have served in the military, several of their predecessors from recent decades ...