Trump has spent the first year of his second term pushing the limits of presidential power. He’s the latest in a long line of ...

"What we're trying to do here is make sure that the Congress's powers under the Constitution are upheld and can be enforced," ...

Lawmakers are calling on President Trump's cabinet and Congress to boot him from office using a never-before-invoked ...

Representative Seth Moulton is a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, but he learned about the U.S. military’s middle-of-the-night capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro the ...

Dec. 29—WASHINGTON — The Capitol is quiet this week, with Congress out of town for its end-of-year recess, but lawmakers are gearing up for what promises to be a hectic few weeks of work when the ...

Congress has left the building. Lawmakers are home for the holidays with the memory of the longest ever government shutdown still fresh. This Congress is earning a reputation as the least productive ...

American flags fly in front of the U.S. Capitol at sunrise, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, in Washington. Credit: Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP This story is part of CT Mirror Explains, an ongoing effort to ...

A sharp rise in executive orders this year has been counterbalanced by lower legislative activity from Congress, but political experts don’t see much reason to believe lawmakers will reassert ...

Congress is wrapping up the year in the shadow of the longest government shutdown and with a growing reputation as the least productive in modern history. "Congress is in a coma. It has a pulse, but ...

This December on Capitol Hill appears to follow a familiar script. There’s a deadline for Congress to act on (insert issue here). And if lawmakers don’t move by Jan. 1, then (insert consequence here).

After a record-long government shutdown that ended in November, Congress faces another funding deadline just two months later. Federal lawmakers are trying to avoid another closure that would lead to ...