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Congress has been at an impasse for years over how to address gun violence legislatively. Now a federal court has struck down decades-old legislation restricting handgun purchases.

Appeals court finds age-based handgun purchase ban unconstitutional

By Todd Ruger
Posted July 13, 2021 at 1:59pm
Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as people try to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6.

House appropriators want Pentagon to get tough on extremists in the ranks

By John M. Donnelly
Posted July 13, 2021 at 12:25pm
Roger Towberman, a Space Force member, displays the service insignia.

Lawmakers pan Biden’s first Space Force budget

By Andrew Clevenger
Posted July 13, 2021 at 11:19am
Amy Smith, one of four new CAO coaches, talks with Eliana Goodman in the new location for the CAO Coach Program in the basement of the Longworth House Office Building on Wednesday, July 7, 2021.

‘No training’ is a common staff complaint. Meet the Congress coaches

By Chris Cioffi
Posted July 13, 2021 at 6:00am
U.S. troops look out over hillsides in the Nerkh district of Wardak province in Afghanistan in 2019. The U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan is all but complete.

House spending panel frets over future in Afghanistan

By John M. Donnelly
Posted July 13, 2021 at 5:31am
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., says she and her colleagues are working to get budget outline done "as soon as possible."

Budget blueprint for massive spending package starts to take shape

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted July 12, 2021 at 11:35pm
Former Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, negotiated the first of several bipartisan spending caps and debt limit deals.

Democrats mull keeping debt limit out of budget reconciliation

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted July 12, 2021 at 7:27pm
Senate Appropriations Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., left, and ranking member Richard C. Shelby, R-Ala., speak before a hearing on the White House's fiscal 2022 defense budget request in Washington on Thursday, June 17, 2021.

Senate Democrats up ante on Capitol security supplemental

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted July 12, 2021 at 6:41pm
Alabama Republican Rep. Mo Brooks, pointing during a Capitol tour last month, told a federal court that he should be dropped from a lawsuit that accuses him of sparking the Jan. 6 attack on Congress.

House lawyers weigh immunity for Rep. Mo Brooks in Jan. 6 lawsuit

By Todd Ruger
Posted July 12, 2021 at 7:00am, Updated at 1:28pm
Workers remove security fencing surrounding the Capitol on July 10. The fencing was erected after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

Congress has a long to-do list this summer

By CQ Roll Call Staff
Posted July 12, 2021 at 9:23am
A U.S. Capitol Police van is parked in front of the Senate wing of the Capitol on June 17, 2021.

GOP bill for Capitol security cuts House version by two-thirds

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted July 9, 2021 at 7:31pm, Updated at 9:56pm
President Joe Biden, seen here at the White House on Wednesday, defended the pace of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Biden makes his case on quick Afghan withdrawal

By Mark Satter
Posted July 8, 2021 at 5:21pm
New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who chairs the Armed Services Committee's Personnel panel, has introduced legislation that would take the prosecution of serious military cases, not just those involving sexual assault, out of the chain of command.

Senate sets NDAA markups for mid-July

By Andrew Clevenger
Posted July 8, 2021 at 2:36pm
A woman shades herself from the sun on the south side of the Capitol in front of the building's temporary security fencing.

Remaining Capitol fencing will come down as early as Friday

By Chris Cioffi
Posted July 7, 2021 at 5:52pm
Illinois Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García, left, says he won’t back a reconciliation bill without a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, but House Budget Chairman John Yarmuth has said that likely won’t meet reconciliation rules.

Garcia adds reconciliation demand Democrats unlikely to meet on immigration

By Caroline Coudriet and Jennifer Shutt
Posted July 7, 2021 at 4:18pm
Jones leads the effort to get the Department of Homeland Security to change course.

Congressional Black Caucus urges expanded deportation review

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted July 7, 2021 at 2:33pm
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., praised his Democratic counterpart's fairness, but that won't earn his vote.

GOP unity on spending bills holding, despite earmarks galore

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted July 6, 2021 at 9:35am
From left, Democrats Tom Suozzi, David Scott, Carolyn Bourdeaux and Pramila Jayapal have all drawn their red lines over infrastructure and other tax and spending priorities.

Biden has to erase red lines to see his agenda through

By Shawn Zeller
Posted July 6, 2021 at 7:00am
New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan is one of only two Democrats who haven't yet joined the earmarking parade, though there’s still time.

Senate appropriations earmark requests start rolling in

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted July 2, 2021 at 3:11pm
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., defended the first foreign aid bill written under her direction as chairwoman of the House Appropriations State-Foreign Operations subcommittee and resisted GOP efforts to reinsert the Helms provision banning U.S. foreign aid from being used to pay for abortions.

GOP anti-abortion riders in foreign aid bill fall short

By Rachel Oswald
Posted July 1, 2021 at 6:41pm
House Transportation and Infrastructure Chair Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., joined by other House Democrats, speaks last month during a news conference on the surface transportation, wastewater and drinking water bill.

House passes $759B public works bill with elements of Biden plan

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted July 1, 2021 at 5:30pm
Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., attends a news conference Thursday in the Capitol Visitor Center to introduce members of the select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

House Democrats to skip budget markup, wait for Senate

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted July 1, 2021 at 3:55pm
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, at podium, on Thursday introduced Democratic members of the select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. From left: Reps. Elaine Luria of Virginia; Jamie Raskin of Maryland; Stephanie Murphy of Florida; Californians Pete Aguilar, Adam B. Schiff and Zoe Lofgren; and Bennie G. Thompson of Mississippi. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., will also be a member.

Pelosi’s picks for Jan. 6 select committee include Liz Cheney

By Chris Marquette and Niels Lesniewski
Posted July 1, 2021 at 11:23am, Updated at 2:06pm
Demonstrators stand outside the Supreme Court in Washington on June 23.

Supreme Court weakens another Voting Rights Act provision

By Todd Ruger
Posted July 1, 2021 at 11:27am
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, right, has a bill that would fund 500,000 new vouchers.

Democrats hope to expand housing vouchers on infrastructure bill

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted July 1, 2021 at 7:00am
Rodgers has $15.7 million worth of earmarks in the Interior-Environment spending bill that she has not committed to supporting.

Plenty of GOP earmarks in spending bill its members will oppose

By Joseph Morton
Posted July 1, 2021 at 7:00am
New Jersey Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. says he’s willing to accept less than a full repeal of the state and local tax deduction.

Democrats search for sweet spot on ‘SALT’ deduction

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted July 1, 2021 at 5:30am
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has extended the proxy voting period in the House through Aug. 17.

What’s next for proxy voting and hybrid committees?

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted July 1, 2021 at 5:00am
Donald Rumsfeld, then the Defense secretary, testifies in July 2003 at a hearing on Iraq and Afghanistan, the two wars that would come to shape his second stint at the helm of the Pentagon.

Donald Rumsfeld, a DC legend in war and peace, dead at 88

By John M. Donnelly
Posted June 30, 2021 at 6:26pm
Speaker Nancy Pelosi hugs MPD Officer Michael Fanone and Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, right, on Wednesday. Also pictured, center, are Gladys Sicknick and Sandra Garza, the mother and partner of the late Officer Brian Sicknick, who died shortly after the Jan. 6 attack.

House creates Jan. 6 select committee

By Chris Marquette
Posted June 30, 2021 at 4:28pm