House lawmakers will return to Washington, D.C., after a lengthy recess and the 2024 election on Tuesday, with a lengthy list of tasks to accomplish before the new Congress arrives in January. High on ...

The 118th Congress is likely to have at least one final political standoff before the balance of power shifts, and it's over how to fund the federal government through September 2025.

The argument that McCarthy’s chief opponents in the conference made Saturday was that he betrayed his colleagues by depending on Democrats for passage of his continuing resolution. But of course ...

The Senate has not cleared a single bill. Now we’re left staring down another continuing resolution to avoid a government ...

Of course, they didn’t make it and now, again, there’s a need for a stopgap spending bill, the so-called Continuing Resolution (CR). But also as usual, there are disagreements regarding what ...

Congress’ refusal to provide additional funding for the Social Security Administration in September’s two-month continuing ...

America’s electoral traditions may seem exhausting to many, but we should remember that the privilege of expressing our ...

Trump has secured enough Electoral College votes to return to the White House in January, defeating Vice President Kamala Harris in critical battleground states. His victory comes after a tumultuous ...

Kaptur warned Johnson that a recent continuing resolution to fund the federal government from Oct. 1 to Dec. 20, passed just a day before Helene made landfall, "provided initial relief funds ...

One of Iowa's U.S. Senators believes Tuesday's election outcome could impact how quickly a new funding package is tackled.

The approval of fiscal 2025 bills tops Congress’ priorities as lawmakers prepare to kick off their post-election legislative ...

The third continuing resolution (CR) for the fiscal year of 2024, which provides short-term federal spending and keeps the federal government open, is set to expire soon. If no short-term or ...