US Congress News and Blog Posts

As long as members of his caucus disregard pragmatism, McCarthy's path forward will be precarious.

The new Congress convened Tuesday and immediately found itself embroiled in a deadlocked vote for the new House Speaker, with no clear end in sight.

The progress Biden makes on key issues may determine whether he'll get four more years in office.

Democrats beat expectations in the 2022 midterm elections, but Republicans still took back the House of Representatives.

Republicans are expected to win a majority in the House of Representatives, but the Senate race is less clear.

Many observers of politics lament the growing levels of political polarization in the United States. Although there is a case to be made that America’s most divided days came during the Civil War, polarization has no doubt reached striking levels in the present moment.

Many climate activists today believe that if Congress doesn’t act on climate change right now, we have no chance of survival. But the truth is, we have a number of reasons to be hopeful.

Even on this Balkanized political landscape, there is occasional evidence of bipartisan cooperation.

The greatest political irony of recent times may soon come our way.

Congress is juggling two massive spending bills and the need to raise the debt ceiling.