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Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., said "fish or cut bait" time is approaching.

Huge budget reconciliation package may not move until fall

By Jennifer Shutt and Jessica Wehrman
Posted June 15, 2021 at 1:16pm, Updated at 3:49pm
Rep. Alex X. Mooney is being investigated by the Office of Congressional Ethics.

Office of Congressional Ethics investigating W.Va. Rep. Alex Mooney

By Chris Marquette
Posted June 15, 2021 at 3:47pm
Khan received bipartisan Senate support.

Big Tech critic Khan confirmed to join Federal Trade Commission

By Alexei Alexis
Posted June 15, 2021 at 3:16pm
Merrick Garland speaks during his confirmation hearing to be attorney general on Feb. 22.

White House seeks $100 million to help DOJ fight domestic extremism

By Todd Ruger
Posted June 15, 2021 at 1:48pm
Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux, D-Ga., who flipped a GOP district last year, is on Republicans' target list for 2022.

Moderate Democrats demand ‘stable’ debt ahead of key budget vote

By Paul M. Krawzak and Lindsey McPherson
Posted June 14, 2021 at 9:09pm
Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, sought to remove the underlying rule's spending cap for appropriators.

$1.5 trillion spending cap approved with House rule

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted June 14, 2021 at 4:22pm, Updated at 7:45pm
Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominated to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, testifies during her Senate confirmation hearing April 28.

Senate confirms Jackson to DC Circuit

By Todd Ruger
Posted June 14, 2021 at 2:51pm, Updated at 6:26pm
Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia, center, flanked by GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas, right, and attorney Ken Cuccinelli, hold a news conference outside the Capitol on Monday to announce a federal lawsuit challenging fines levied for bypassing the House floor magnotometers.

Clyde makes good on fighting magnetometer fine in federal court

By Chris Marquette
Posted June 14, 2021 at 4:28pm
House Budget Chairman John Yarmuth, D-Ky., arrives for a hearing on the White House's fiscal 2022 budget request on Wednesday, June 9, 2021.

House Democrats propose $1.5 trillion spending ceiling

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted June 14, 2021 at 11:53am
Sen. Michael Bennet has voted against the last two "suspensions" of the debt ceiling.

Democrats have no easy options for raising the debt limit

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted June 14, 2021 at 10:45am
A scaled-back infrastructure bill, like the one West Virginia’s Joe Manchin III and other senators are negotiating, is what most Hill aides expect will ultimately pass.

Hill staffers expect infrastructure bill to pass, but little else

By Shawn Zeller
Posted June 14, 2021 at 7:00am
Capitol Police officers ride motorcycles outside the Capitol in Washington on May 12.

Capitol Police watchdog flags training contractor’s use of Nazi-adjacent symbols

By Chris Marquette
Posted June 11, 2021 at 6:16pm
Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., is joining forces with Republicans on House Judiciary to introduce antitrust bills aimed at the big technology firms.

House committee unveils bipartisan Big Tech antitrust agenda

By Dean DeChiaro
Posted June 11, 2021 at 5:26pm
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., left, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., depart from a news conference on January 6 Commission and Emergency Security Supplemental in Washington on Wednesday, May 19, 2021. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

House chamber mask mandate lifted for vaccinated members, staff

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted June 11, 2021 at 3:22pm
“It’s hard to express just how shocking an abuse of power this really is,” House Intelligence Chairman Adam B. Schiff says of the reports that his records were obtained by the Trump-era Justice Department.

Senate plans investigation of Trump DOJ seizure of House Democrats’ data

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted June 11, 2021 at 1:33pm, Updated at 2:02pm
Construction workers in Miami, Florida work on the “Signature Bridge,” replacing and improving a busy highway intersection at I-95 and I-395 on March 17, 2021.

Bipartisan Senate group claims agreement on infrastructure

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted June 10, 2021 at 3:08pm, Updated at 8:41pm
South Carolin Rep. Tom Rice is among several Republicans pointing to the recent leak of tax returns as a reason for Congress not to cede any oversight authority over IRS funding.

Distrust of IRS drives GOP critique of Biden tax enforcement plan

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted June 10, 2021 at 6:48pm
The House agenda will include a resolution from California Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee to end the 2002 authorization for use of military force in Iraq

House readies AUMF vote, transportation package for busy June agenda

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted June 10, 2021 at 2:46pm
Some of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s comments shortly after arriving in Congress sparked allegations of antisemitism and triggered a debate over whether Democrats should move a resolution on the House floor to punish her.

House Democrats roiled by Ilhan Omar comments on Israel, Hamas

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted June 10, 2021 at 12:25pm, Updated at 2:21pm
Stabenow said she hopes the Senate will speed Hipp through confirmation by unanimous consent.

Agriculture panel sends USDA general counsel nomination to full Senate

By Ellyn Ferguson
Posted June 10, 2021 at 2:07pm
Schatz, D-Hawaii, left, and Fudge spoke ahead of the Appropriations hearing Thursday on the fiscal 2022 budget request.

Senators press Fudge to rebuild HUD’s depleted staff

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted June 10, 2021 at 2:02pm
Senate Appropriations Chairman Patrick J. Leahy opposes the Pentagon effort.

Pentagon renews effort to withhold more unclassified records

By John M. Donnelly
Posted June 10, 2021 at 12:58pm
Chair Peter A. DeFazio, D-Ore., and ranking member Sam Graves, R-Mo., conducting a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing earlier this year.

House panel advances $547 billion surface transportation bill

By Jessica Wehrman and Joseph Morton
Posted June 10, 2021 at 7:59am
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., speaks during a news conference in Washington on April 20.

House Democrats’ transportation bill may leave GOP at the station

By Jessica Wehrman and Joseph Morton
Posted June 9, 2021 at 7:17pm
Protesters confront a row of police officers during demonstrations at Lafayette Square, near the White House, on June 22, 2020.

IG: Park Police did not clear square for Trump photo op

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted June 9, 2021 at 6:04pm
NCAA President Mark Emmert testifies during Wednesday's Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on NCAA athlete rights.

Senators pressed to step into NCAA student-athlete ‘NIL’ pay debate by July 1

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted June 9, 2021 at 4:29pm
Sen. Bill Cassidy is one of the lead GOP negotiators on yet-to-be unveiled proposal.

Bipartisan group avoids partisan hurdles in infrastructure talks

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted June 9, 2021 at 4:27pm
Rep. Derek Kilmer is concerned about a "brain drain" as talented staff leave the Hill for more lucrative opportunities.

Lawmakers seek funds to improve the workings of Congress

By Jennifer Shutt and Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted June 9, 2021 at 2:54pm
House Problem Solvers Caucus leaders Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., left, and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., embrace during a press conference on Feb. 11, 2020. The bipartisan caucus unveiled a new, $1.25 trillion infrastructure spending framework on Wednesday.

Bipartisan House caucus offers alternative infrastructure plan after Senate GOP talks collapse

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted June 9, 2021 at 7:37am
The talks' end, said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., "does not mean bipartisanship isn’t feasible."

After infrastructure talks collapse, two options for Biden

By Jessica Wehrman and Niels Lesniewski
Posted June 8, 2021 at 5:53pm, Updated at 8:45pm