Skip to content
RollCall logo

Congress

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said it would be easier for the Senate to proceed without member-directed spending in an upcoming highway transportation bill.

Sen. Capito says she wants no earmarks in upcoming highway bill

By Jessica Wehrman and Jennifer Shutt
Posted April 29, 2021 at 8:05am
House Energy-Water Appropriations ranking member Mike Simpson says appropriators don't yet know exactly how they'll determine which projects receive funding.

Earmark requests headed for scrutiny as deadline approaches

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted April 29, 2021 at 5:30am
Tourists walk by the fence perimeter on the east side of the U.S. Capitol before President Joe Biden delivers his address to the joint session of Congress on Wednesday, April 28, 2021.

Even the guests are going virtual for Biden’s speech in front of Congress

By Chris Cioffi
Posted April 28, 2021 at 8:14pm
Ketanji Brown Jackson, left, nominee to be a U.S. circuit judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Candace Jackson-Akiwumi, nominee to be a U.S. circuit judge for the 7th Circuit, are sworn in during their Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Wednesday.

Senators aim fire at each other at first hearing for Biden judicial nominees

By Todd Ruger
Posted April 28, 2021 at 2:04pm
California Rep. Devin Nunes, who raised $1.43 million in the first quarter, says he’s worked hard to build a national donor network.

Nunes tops Ways and Means fundraising as GOP weathers PAC ‘pause’

By Doug Sword
Posted April 28, 2021 at 7:30am
U.S. Capitol Officers embrace outside of the Capitol Rotunda as the remains of Off. William “Billy” Evans lie in honor in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. Evans was killed when a driver rammed the north barricade of the Capitol on April 2, 2021.

Tired and traumatized, Capitol Police officers face first joint session since Jan. 6

By Chris Marquette
Posted April 28, 2021 at 6:00am
House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal says additional child care funding is needed given the struggles of working women during a pandemic that has led to the unavailability of child care.

Neal unveils paid leave, child care plan ahead of Biden speech

By Doug Sword
Posted April 28, 2021 at 5:30am
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer is proposing more funding for staff salaries.

Hoyer and Jeffries to pitch 20 percent boost for office funds to retain staff

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted April 28, 2021 at 5:00am
Anti-gerrymandering activists rally outside the Supreme Court in March 2018. Litigation over congressional and legislative maps has become commonplace over the past several decades.

Census results start wave of litigation over new maps

By Michael Macagnone
Posted April 27, 2021 at 7:09pm
Names are displayed as votes in during a vote challenging the seating of lawmakers from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin on the House floor on the first day of the 117th Congress on Jan. 3, 2021. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

How can Congress evolve with technology? Let’s look to Brazil

By Gopal Ratnam and Jinitzail Hernández
Posted April 27, 2021 at 5:35pm
Monika Bickert, vice president for content policy for Facebook, makes an opening statement Tuesday via videoconference during a hearing about social media algorithms at the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law.

Social media algorithms threaten democracy, experts tell senators

By Dean DeChiaro
Posted April 27, 2021 at 3:08pm
Brazil's Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia began allowing remote voting soon after the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

Congress’ embrace of technology is slow, hampered by tradition

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted April 27, 2021 at 6:01am
Results from the 2020 census trigger a once-a-decade reshuffling of 435 House seats.

Census: California, Northeast, Midwest lose House seats

By Michael Macagnone
Posted April 26, 2021 at 4:01pm, Updated at 6:24pm
Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., looks out at the National Mall from the speaker’s balcony at the Capitol on March 10, 2021.

Leahy tees up return of earmarks in Senate spending bills

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted April 26, 2021 at 4:46pm
“We have to focus on transforming policing in the United States,” California Rep. Karen Bass says.

It’s up to Democrats to pass a policing bill

By Shawn Zeller
Posted April 26, 2021 at 7:00am
Members of the Supreme Court pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court on Friday. Seated from left: Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor. Standing from left: Justices Brett M. Kavanaugh, Elena Kagan, Neil M. Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett.

Lawmakers spar in Supreme Court case on nonprofit donor disclosure

By Todd Ruger
Posted April 26, 2021 at 6:00am
If confirmed, Jewel H. Bronaugh would become the first woman of color to serve as USDA deputy secretary.

Bronaugh looks set to advance as USDA’s second-in-command

By Ellyn Ferguson
Posted April 22, 2021 at 5:47pm
"If we don’t put any ideas on the table, shame on us," said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., after unveiling the GOP plan.

Democrats unimpressed by GOP’s $568 billion infrastructure plan

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted April 22, 2021 at 5:44pm
UNITED STATES - APRIL 22: Rep. Andy Levin, D-Mich., stops to pose with Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., as she holds a card on the House steps with the final vote count after the House passed HR 51 with a 216-208 vote at the Capitol on Thursday, April 22, 2021. The legislation would create the new state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, with one representative and two senators. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Watch: House passes DC statehood bill once again, despite uphill fight in Senate

By Thomas McKinless
Posted April 22, 2021 at 4:24pm
Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth McKenzie Jr., the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, testifies at a Senate Armed Services hearing Thursday.

Hearings lay bare risks of Afghanistan withdrawal

By John M. Donnelly
Posted April 22, 2021 at 3:00pm
House Legislative Branch Appropriations Chairman Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, said a draft bill being circulated would increase security spending for the Capitol.

Urgent Capitol security needs put spotlight on ‘sleepy’ spending bill

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted April 22, 2021 at 2:20pm
Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., speaks during a news conference after the Senate Democrat Policy luncheon on Tuesday.

Senate passes AAPI bill with wide bipartisan support

By Todd Ruger
Posted April 22, 2021 at 8:54am, Updated at 2:18pm
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton holds a card on the House steps with the final vote count after the House passed HR 51 on Thursday. The legislation would create the new state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, with one representative and two senators.

DC statehood bill passes House, but Senate hopes are dim

By Chris Cioffi
Posted April 22, 2021 at 12:15pm
Sen. Edward J. Markey, center, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, left, reintroduced their Green New Deal resolution on Tuesday.

Though never adopted, the ‘Green New Deal’ left its mark

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted April 22, 2021 at 7:00am
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., walks through the green room as she leaves the press conference in the Capitol ahead of Thursday's vote in the House on H.R. 51 the Washington, DC Admission Act, on Wednesday.

House set to vote on DC statehood, but all eyes are on the Senate

By Chris Cioffi
Posted April 22, 2021 at 5:00am
Acting U.S. Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman arrives at the Capitol for Wednesday’s hearing.

Capitol Police request for dramatic budget boost met with skepticism on Hill

By Chris Marquette
Posted April 21, 2021 at 6:04pm
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., is seen in the Senate carriage of the Capitol during a vote on March 11, 2021.

Senate GOP conference upholds earmarks ‘ban’

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted April 21, 2021 at 4:37pm, Updated at 5:59pm
A Drug Enforcement Administration chemist checks confiscated items containing fentanyl at the DEA Northeast regional laboratory on Oct. 8, 2019 in New York.

House passes temporary extension for regulating fentanyl as Schedule 1 drug

By Sandhya Raman
Posted April 21, 2021 at 4:40pm
Loaded doses of Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine are pictured at Grubb's Pharmacy on Capitol Hill April 12.

FDA finds more problems with Johnson & Johnson contractor

By Emily Kopp
Posted April 21, 2021 at 4:34pm
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., reintroduces his bipartisan bill to overhaul the National Science Foundation.

Top bipartisan group relaunches $110 billion technology bill

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted April 21, 2021 at 3:21pm