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Minnesota Democrat Betty McCollum, the chair of the House Defense Appropriations Committee, has called the OCO account a "budget gimmick."

Analysis: Biden ends abuse-prone overseas military budgets

By John M. Donnelly
Posted April 9, 2021 at 3:03pm
Shelby says military spending needs to keep pace with other programs.

Parties ready for battle over Biden’s fiscal 2022 spending plan

By Paul M. Krawzak and Jennifer Shutt
Posted April 9, 2021 at 6:07am
Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said she thinks the House will take up physical and social infrastructure legislation in two parts.

Pelosi backs two-bill infrastructure strategy amid progressives’ push for one

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted April 8, 2021 at 4:41pm
President Joe Biden speaks Thursday as Vice President Kamala Harris and Attorney General Merrick B. Garland listen during an event on gun control in the Rose Garden at the White House.

Biden gun plan accelerates funding for violence prevention programs

By Todd Ruger
Posted April 8, 2021 at 2:14pm
The Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge over the Anacostia River in Washington near the headquarters of the Transportation Department.

DOT lists transport projects in $2 trillion plan to woo Congress

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted April 8, 2021 at 10:12am
Schumer has new procedural options. It's not entirely clear what they are.

More questions than answers in parliamentarian’s budget opinion

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted April 8, 2021 at 8:20am
Former congressman Bobby Schilling speaks at the Muscatine GOP monthly meeting in Muscatine, Iowa on Aug. 13, 2019. He died Tuesday.

Former Illinois Rep. Bobby Schilling dies at 57

By Chris Cioffi
Posted April 7, 2021 at 11:41am
Rep. Peter A. DeFazio fought to keep the carrier out of the U.S. five years ago. So did House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

DeFazio’s fight against Norwegian airline takes flight again

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted April 7, 2021 at 7:00am
Black bunting is displayed Monday at the entrance to the Capitol Police headquarters following the April 2 killing of Officer William “Billy” Evans in a violent incident at a security checkpoint on Capitol grounds.

Short-staffed and overworked: Capitol Police struggle after months of trauma

By Chris Marquette
Posted April 7, 2021 at 5:30am
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., announced the April floor schedule Tuesday, along with plans to reduce House vote timing from 45 minutes each to 30 minutes in a step toward the pre-pandemic normal.

House to take up DC statehood, equal pay bills this month

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted April 6, 2021 at 5:20pm
Capitol Police investigate the scene after a vehicle struck officers and drove into a security barrier near the Capitol on Friday.

Slain Capitol Police officer to lie in honor in Rotunda next week

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted April 6, 2021 at 10:36am
Rep. Alcee L. Hastings, D-Fla., has died.

Florida Rep. Alcee L. Hastings dies at 84

By Bridget Bowman and Niels Lesniewski
Posted April 6, 2021 at 9:59am
Workers are seen under Union Station in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, April 1, 2021.

Another earmark challenge for $2 trillion infrastructure plan

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted April 6, 2021 at 9:51am
Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart voted against two bills this year that he supported last Congress.

Why some Republicans switched votes on bills they previously supported

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted April 6, 2021 at 6:00am
Sens. Carl Levin and John McCain conduct a news conference in June 2011 on the Chinese government's failure to cooperate in a Senate Armed Services Committee investigation into counterfeit electronic parts in the Defense Department's supply chain.

Special report: Microchip security continues to confound Pentagon

By John M. Donnelly
Posted April 6, 2021 at 6:00am
Purple line construction continues in in Silver Spring, Md., on Friday.

Second filibuster-proof maneuver OK’d by Senate parliamentarian

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted April 5, 2021 at 6:26pm, Updated at 7:40pm
National Guardsmen stand guard on Constitution Avenue NW, after a man was shot during a confrontation with Capitol Police at the north barricade entrance to the Capitol on Friday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

House chaplain prays for Capitol Police and suspect

By Jinitzail Hernández
Posted April 5, 2021 at 3:45pm
Capitol Police investigate the scene after a vehicle drove into a security barrier near the U.S. Capitol building on Friday.

One Capitol Police officer killed, one injured when vehicle rams them at Capitol barricade

By Katherine Tully-McManus and Lindsey McPherson
Posted April 2, 2021 at 2:03pm, Updated at 7:15pm
Capitol Police and National Guardsmen stand guard on Constitution Avenue after an attack Friday left one police officer dead and another injured at the north barricade entrance to the Capitol.

Capitol security review more imperative following latest deadly attack, Ryan says

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted April 2, 2021 at 6:44pm
The CEO of a biofuels group is disappointed by the role the Biden infrastructure plan gives to it in reducing greenhouse gases. The group plans to remind lawmakers as they work on the legislation.

Biden’s infrastructure plan seen as aiding ‘initial link’ in farm supply chain

By Ellyn Ferguson
Posted April 1, 2021 at 12:16pm
Democrats Charles E. Schumer of New York with Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters of Michigan at a 2016 news conference about the Flint, Mich., water crisis.

Bipartisan agreement on need for water upgrade, but not on cost

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted April 1, 2021 at 11:15am
Former Iowa State Senator Rita Hart is dropping her complaint about the election in Iowa's second district.

Rita Hart withdraws challenge to Iowa House race result

By Niels Lesniewski and Lindsey McPherson
Posted March 31, 2021 at 4:54pm, Updated at 5:27pm
Biden is scheduled to speak about his infrastructure proposal Wednesday in Pittsburgh.

GOP response puts Biden infrastructure plan on road to reconciliation

By Doug Sword
Posted March 31, 2021 at 2:56pm
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., looks on as a video on mass shootings is played during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing March 23.

Biden infrastructure plan would boost gun violence prevention groups

By Todd Ruger
Posted March 31, 2021 at 2:54pm
Support for an infrastructure package has united disparate groups, but bipartisanship in Congress may be harder to round up.

Unlikely alliances push for action on infrastructure, but will they last?

By Kate Ackley and Jessica Wehrman
Posted March 31, 2021 at 6:00am
Employees work on a silicon wafer production line at Jiejie Semiconductor Co. in Nantong, China.

Special report: Questions swirl over subsidies for chip industry

By John M. Donnelly
Posted March 31, 2021 at 6:00am
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, speaks during a Freedom Caucus press conference on immigration outside the Capitol on Wednesday, March 17, 2021.

House Ethics rejects Gohmert’s appeal of $5,000 metal detector fine

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted March 30, 2021 at 5:58pm
Rep. Andy Kim, D-N.J., a former diplomat, is trying with his House colleagues to make the State Department more diverse.

House Democrats set sights on making State Department more diverse

By Rachel Oswald
Posted March 30, 2021 at 5:33pm
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is nominated for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a position seen as one step removed from the Supreme Court. (Bill O'Leary/Getty Images)

Biden judicial picks reignite contentious Senate process

By Todd Ruger
Posted March 30, 2021 at 10:37am
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., arrives at the Capitol during a vote on Feb. 26, 2021.

Appropriators pressure Capitol Police to make Jan. 6 IG report public, hold press briefings

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted March 29, 2021 at 5:25pm