Despite a deadlock over funding for the agency, lawmakers left town and left Democratic and White House negotiators to try to work out a deal in their absence.

As of Feb. 2, 2026, there are three active vacancies in the 119th Congress, which spans from Jan. 3, 2025, to Jan. 3, 2027. Due to the active vacancies, Republicans have a 53-47 majority in the U.S. Senate and a 218-214 majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. [1]

The heads of US immigration agencies faced heavy criticism in Congress Tuesday as they defended President Donald Trump's mass deportation drive and fielded questions about the fatal shootings of two

Dozens of measures sprinkled throughout the recently enacted spending package seek to tie the Trump administration’s hands on funding, an act of quiet bipartisan resistance to efforts to trample congressional power.

With less than a year before the 2026 midterm elections, the already precarious balance of power in Congress will come down to a few, critical battleground races. In the Senate, where Republicans hold a 53-47 majority, Democrats would need to gain four ...

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 same way many Americans did: A friend who saw the news ...

Three congressional candidates vying to serve different parts of the Northwest or West suburbs will find out early next month if they’ll appear on March 2026 primary ballots or be booted. On the hot seat are Democrat Mark J. Pasieka Sr., a Chicagoan ...

The state of North Carolina is represented by Republicans Thom Tillis and Ted Budd in the United States Senate.

Currently serving a 20-year term for trafficking girls, Ghislaine Maxwell is expected to invoke her right to not answer questions.