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Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper arrives at the Capitol for a House Armed Services Committee hearing on July 9.

Lawmakers blast Trump plans to withdraw troops from Germany

By Mark Satter
Posted July 29, 2020 at 3:58pm
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies in April 2018 before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Today he will testify remotely before the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust.

Ahead of antitrust hearing, tech CEOs defend their companies

By Dean DeChiaro and Gopal Ratnam
Posted July 29, 2020 at 12:16pm
From left, incoming freshmen Lou Correa, Brian Mast and Scott Taylor on the House steps in 2016. House officials reached out to Mast after his election to discuss accessibility issues at the Capitol.

Congress still playing catch-up on accessibility, despite progress, 30 years after ADA

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted July 29, 2020 at 5:00am
Adam D. DeMarco, a National Guard officer, testifies during the House Natural Resources Committee hearing on Tuesday.

Dueling testimonies: National Guard officer contradicts Park Police on Lafayette Square protests

By Jinitzail Hernández
Posted July 28, 2020 at 7:45pm
Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn, right, says lack of GOP unity on a coronavirus aid bill would give Democrats like Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, at left, the upper hand in talks.

Uncertainty hangs over coronavirus relief package as clock ticks

By David Lerman
Posted July 28, 2020 at 7:01pm
Gregory Monahan, acting chief of the U.S. Park Police, testifies during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on July 28, 2020.

Park Police head defends Lafayette Square tactics, admits missing files

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted July 28, 2020 at 5:47pm
Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., talks to reporters as he departs the Senate floor after a vote July 22.

Senate uses pandemic bill to fill accounts raided for Trump’s border wall

By Mark Satter
Posted July 28, 2020 at 4:15pm
Attorney General William Barr testifies during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on July 28 (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/POOL)

Barr tangles with House Democrats in testimony over Roger Stone case

By Todd Ruger
Posted July 28, 2020 at 4:05pm
UNITED STATES - JULY 21: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., leaves the Senate Republican Policy luncheon in Hart Building on Tuesday, July 21, 2020. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

What’s in the Senate GOP’s coronavirus relief proposal?

By Mary Ellen McIntire and Thomas McKinless
Posted July 28, 2020 at 4:04pm
Police in riot gear stand in front of the White House as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd in Washington on May 31. Police reportedly used tear gas to clear the crowd the next day.

Guard officer: Lafayette Square police tactics ‘disturbing’

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted July 28, 2020 at 6:00am
From left, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook and Google’s Sundar Pichai.

Big Tech antitrust hearing could be colossal — or mere theater

By Dean DeChiaro
Posted July 28, 2020 at 5:10am
An F-35 flies past the Capitol dome during a flyover in Washington on Wednesday, June 12, 2019.

Pandemic relief package would become weapons bazaar

By John M. Donnelly
Posted July 27, 2020 at 9:25pm
The hearse carrying the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., moves up Independence Avenue as it makes its way to the East Front Plaza of the Capitol on Monday, July 27, 2020.

Road ahead: Congress rushing on coronavirus relief but pausing to honor John Lewis

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted July 27, 2020 at 4:40pm, Updated at 8:25pm
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., was the driving force behind inclusion of an expanded business meals deduction in GOP proposal.

Senate GOP unveils coronavirus relief package; formal negotiations begin

By David Lerman
Posted July 27, 2020 at 7:15pm
The military honor guard carries Rep. John Lewis’ casket up the steps of the Capitol on Monday. Rep. Lewis will lie in state at the Capitol Monday and Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Pelosi yields the floor to Lewis one last time

By Jinitzail Hernández
Posted July 27, 2020 at 6:11pm
The military honor guard carries the casket of the late Rep. John Lewis on Monday up the steps of the Capitol, where he will lie in state Monday and Tuesday.

Congress pays respects to ‘revered and beloved’ John Lewis in a Rotunda memorial service like no other

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted July 27, 2020 at 4:27pm
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have wanted to question Attorney General William Barr at an oversight hearing for more than a year.

House Judiciary Democrats set to grill Attorney General Barr

By Todd Ruger
Posted July 27, 2020 at 4:27pm
The military honor guard and Capitol officials conduct a rehearsal for the arrival of Rep. John Lewis’ casket at the Capitol on Sunday, July 26, 2020. Rep. Lewis will lie in state at the Capitol Monday and Tuesday.

What to know as Congress honors John Lewis amid a pandemic

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted July 27, 2020 at 11:49am
A band plays at a demonstration near the Capitol Hill residence of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on July 22, 2020, to call for the extension of unemployment benefits set to expire on July 31.

Republicans look to virus relief to avert economic and electoral disaster

By Shawn Zeller
Posted July 27, 2020 at 6:30am
House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey and North Caroline Rep. David Price talk before a subcommittee hearing on July 8. The House passed its first batch of fiscal 2021 spending bills Friday.

House sends four spending bills to Senate, defying Trump veto threat

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted July 24, 2020 at 2:41pm
Storm clouds pass over the Capitol dome as a severe thunderstorm approaches Washington on Wednesday, July 22, 2020.

Campus Notebook: COVID-19 keeps hitting Capitol community

By Chris Marquette
Posted July 24, 2020 at 12:11pm
Georgia Rep. John Lewis will lie in state at the Capitol on July 27 and 28.

John Lewis to lie in state at the Capitol

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted July 23, 2020 at 7:46pm
Sen. Martha McSally of Arizona is among the Republicans facing a competitive opponent in November.

Vulnerable Republicans ask McConnell for ‘clean energy’ help

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted July 23, 2020 at 6:23pm
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell takes an elevator in the Senate Subway after attending the Senate Republican luncheon on Wednesday.

GOP not yet ready to roll out coronavirus relief bill

By David Lerman and Lindsey McPherson
Posted July 23, 2020 at 4:43pm
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., tweeted this photo of himself looking frustrated in a packed American Airlines plane July 2.

Merkley bill would stop airlines’ sale of middle seats

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted July 23, 2020 at 4:55pm
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, walks down the Capitol steps in April. This week, after an incident on the same steps, she denounced a pattern of sexism in politics.

Ted Yoho is just the tip of the iceberg, AOC says

By Clyde McGrady
Posted July 23, 2020 at 12:19pm
Army Spc. Nicholas Panipinto died after the combat vehicle he was driving flipped and rolled over during a road test.

Mother pushes Congress for change after son’s ‘preventable’ death in military accident

By Mark Satter
Posted July 23, 2020 at 7:00am
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, left, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speak to reporters as they leave their coronavirus aid meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday, July 23, 2020.

GOP virus aid package: Payroll tax cut out, restaurant deduction in

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted July 23, 2020 at 10:03am
From left, Reps. Rosa DeLauro, Marcy Kaptur and Debbie Wasserman Schultz are vying to succeed Nita M. Lowey as top Democrat on House Appropriations.

Lowey’s would-be successors use spending bills to make their cases

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted July 23, 2020 at 6:30am
Veteran House appropriator Harold Rogers, R-Ky.

Ties between a bank and Rep. Harold Rogers raise questions about PPP loans

By Chris Cioffi
Posted July 23, 2020 at 5:00am