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Speaker Nancy Pelosi, pictured during her weekly news conference in the Capitol in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021.

Democratic leaders: Budget resolution up next week

By Lindsey McPherson and Jennifer Shutt
Posted January 28, 2021 at 12:07pm
Merrick Garland, then a Supreme Court nominee, meets with Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., on Capitol Hill in May 2016.

Garland moves down path to attorney general confirmation hearing

By Todd Ruger
Posted January 28, 2021 at 11:58am
Fudge speakis to reporters outside her office in 2018.

Senate GOP questions Biden’s HUD pick over past insults

By Jim Saksa
Posted January 28, 2021 at 11:55am
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer wave as President Joe Biden’s motorcade departs the Capitol on Inauguration Day. They’re also saying goodbye to key Democratic Hill aides as the administration staffs up.

Brain drain to Biden administration comes at time of crisis for Capitol Hill

By Chris Cioffi
Posted January 28, 2021 at 6:00am
When rioters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, they left behind broken glass and damaged furniture. The emotional and psychological scars may take even longer to heal. Above, a smashed window is pictured at the East Front of the Capitol on Jan. 8.

Insurrection aftermath: Staffers struggle with trauma, guilt and fear

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted January 28, 2021 at 5:00am
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., pictured arriving in the Capitol on the Senate subway to vote Tuesday, announced the following day that he was quarantining after having close contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19.

Warner quarantine could scramble Democrats’ plan for quick budget vote

By Lindsey McPherson and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted January 27, 2021 at 9:19pm
Gus Papathanasiou, chairman of the U.S. Capitol Police Labor Committee, says close to 140 Capitol Police and Metropolitan Police Department officers were injured in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

Pushback on Capitol Police chief testimony continues

By Chris Marquette
Posted January 27, 2021 at 3:55pm, Updated at 6:38pm
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is seen in the Senate subway.

Lawmakers probe Russian support for US extremists

By John M. Donnelly
Posted January 27, 2021 at 4:14pm
Nominee for U.N. ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield answers questions at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today.

China’s expanding UN role denounced by Biden’s ambassador nominee

By Rachel Oswald
Posted January 27, 2021 at 3:59pm
Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, is seen in the Capitol on Thursday, January 17, 2019.

Fudge, having sought USDA job, to make case for HUD secretary

By Jim Saksa
Posted January 27, 2021 at 3:47pm
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., talks during an interview with MSNBC in the Russell Rotunda in Washington on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020.

Democrats planning swift moves on budget resolution next week

By Paul M. Krawzak and David Lerman
Posted January 26, 2021 at 1:47pm, Updated at 10:19pm
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., takes a photo on his camera on his way to the Senate floor for a vote in Washington on Nov. 9, 2020. He was hospitalized Jan. 26 after feeling unwell at his Capitol office.

Patrick Leahy briefly hospitalized after ‘not feeling well’ at Capitol

By Chris Cioffi
Posted January 26, 2021 at 6:59pm, Updated at 7:45pm
Pro-Trump rioters occupy the West Front of the Capitol and the inauguration stands on Jan. 6, 2021.

Capitol Police chief, sergeant-at-arms acknowledge failure to protect against Jan. 6 riot

By Chris Marquette
Posted January 26, 2021 at 4:31pm, Updated at 5:51pm
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul ducks below television cameras Tuesday as he makes his way to the Senate Republican Conference lunch in the Hart Building.

Trump conviction unlikely after most GOP senators vote to dismiss impeachment trial

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted January 26, 2021 at 4:05pm, Updated at 5:42pm
Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., right, and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., attend the joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College votes of the 2020 presidential election in the House chamber earlier this month.

Senate moves forward with 50-50 power-sharing agreement, tabling filibuster fight

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted January 26, 2021 at 4:46pm
House Financial Services Chairwoman Waters named two new subcommittee chairmen Tuesday.

Waters shakes up House Financial Services subcommittee chairs

By Jim Saksa
Posted January 26, 2021 at 3:42pm
Alejandro Mayorkas, nominee to be secretary of Homeland Security, during testimony last week before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Senate panel advances Mayorkas bid to lead Homeland Security

By Camila DeChalus
Posted January 26, 2021 at 2:57pm
Marine One carries President Donald Trump past the Trump International Hotel after he departed the White House before Joe Biden was sworn in on Jan. 20, 2021.

Legal issues are political in Trump impeachment trial

By Todd Ruger
Posted January 26, 2021 at 2:12pm
Antony Blinken arrives for his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021.

Blinken wins strong Senate approval to lead State Department

By Rachel Oswald
Posted January 26, 2021 at 1:09pm
Rioters attempt to enter the Capitol at the House steps Jan. 6.

After Capitol riot, a call to protect veterans from disinformation

By Dean DeChiaro
Posted January 26, 2021 at 6:00am
Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., will preside over the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump.

Leahy, not Roberts, to preside over second Trump impeachment trial

By Lindsey McPherson and Jennifer Shutt
Posted January 25, 2021 at 1:43pm, Updated at 7:53pm
Ben Haskell, 11, participates in the “Commander-in-Tweet” exhibit hosted by “The Daily Show” in Washington in 2019. President Trump wasn’t the only one tweeting up a storm in the last two years of his administration.

Congress can’t stay off Twitter and Facebook either

By Chris Cioffi
Posted January 25, 2021 at 4:12pm
Janet Yellen testifies before the Senate Banking Committee in 2017 while she was Federal Reserve chairwoman.

Yellen confirmed as first female Treasury secretary

By Doug Sword
Posted January 25, 2021 at 2:52pm
Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., arrives for a meeting of the House Democratic Caucus in the Capitol on Wednesday, December 4, 2019.

Minimum wage boost likely headed for budget reconciliation bill

By David Lerman
Posted January 25, 2021 at 1:49pm
Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

Senate Democrats launch probe into alleged Trump plot to undo election results

By Todd Ruger
Posted January 25, 2021 at 1:45pm
President Joe Biden salutes as first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff watch military bands march past the east steps of the Capitol after Biden was sworn in as the 46th president.

Lawmakers seek to permanently end transgender military ban

By John M. Donnelly
Posted January 25, 2021 at 12:46pm
Then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, left, and Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., greet mothers with their babies at a news conference commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Family Medical Leave Act on Feb. 5, 2013.

Feeling the pandemic’s burdens, mothers are looking to Congress

By Joanne Levine
Posted January 25, 2021 at 10:30am
President Joe Biden is already facing GOP pushback on the $1.9 trillion price tag of his coronavirus relief proposal.

Impeachment trial could knock Biden virus aid plan off course

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted January 22, 2021 at 8:08pm
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, right, and Republican leader Mitch McConnell have reached agreement to start the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump the week of Feb. 8.

Impeachment trial arguments to begin week of Feb. 8

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted January 22, 2021 at 7:25pm
The U.S. Capitol Police flag flies in front of the department's headquarters on Sept. 23, 2020.

Capitol Police officer appeals her gender discrimination case

By Chris Marquette
Posted January 22, 2021 at 5:23pm