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NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy works during a six-hour spacewalk to install three lithium-ion batteries on the International Space Station's truss structure. The orbiting lab was above the North Pacific Ocean off the coast of Russia flying into an orbital sunrise at the time this photograph was taken. (Courtesy of NASA)

Why are there no rules in space?

By Jinitzail Hernández
Posted July 22, 2020 at 6:50am
From left, Sens. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., Richard Shelby, R-Ala., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., speak to reporters as they leave a meeting on COVID-19 aid on July 21, 2020.

Rock, meet hard place: Senate appropriators’ dilemma

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted July 22, 2020 at 6:30am
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell talks with reporters as he departs from the Senate floor on Monday.

Health and business concerns clash in debate over COVID-19 liability

By Todd Ruger
Posted July 22, 2020 at 6:02am
Federal public lands, including Yellowstone National Park, would get money to catch up on maintenance under the bill.

House to vote on public lands bill passed by Senate

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted July 22, 2020 at 5:30am
Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Okla., speaks during a news conference after the Senate Republican luncheon on Tuesday, June 30.

Senate chooses minimal new restrictions on weapons for cops

By John M. Donnelly
Posted July 21, 2020 at 1:58pm, Updated at 9:53pm
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell leaves the Senate Republican Policy luncheon in the Hart Building on July 21, 2020.

Virus aid negotiations at a standstill as time dwindles

By David Lerman, Lindsey McPherson and Jennifer Shutt
Posted July 21, 2020 at 11:50am, Updated at 6:38pm
Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney responded to turmoil in her party Tuesday.

Cheney and Gaetz and Massie and Trump: House GOP tangled up over loyalty

By Chris Marquette and Lindsey McPherson
Posted July 21, 2020 at 6:15pm
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin arrives at the Rayburn Building for the House Small Business Committee’s hearing on oversight of the Treasury Department and Small Business Administration’s pandemic programs on July 17.

Financially strapped trucking firm tripled lobbying days before winning coronavirus relief loan

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted July 21, 2020 at 4:34pm
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., shown talking with reporters in the Capitol, quizzed drug executives at a subcommittee hearing Tuesday on whether their agreements with the federal government ensure that any COVID-19 vaccine will be affordable.

Lawmakers ask about potential COVID-19 vaccine cost, efficacy

By Emily Kopp
Posted July 21, 2020 at 4:23pm
Florida Rep. Ted Yoho is alleged to have referred to New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by a derogatory term on the Capitol steps Monday.

Hoyer wants Rep. Yoho reprimanded for derogatory remarks directed at Rep. Ocasio-Cortez

By Chris Marquette
Posted July 21, 2020 at 2:16pm, Updated at 3:53pm
Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., has legislation to provide emergency authority to reimburse farmers whose cattle, hogs or poultry were destroyed because of disruption from the coronavirus pandemic.

From cotton to hogs, agriculture groups seek billions more in coronavirus aid

By Ellyn Ferguson
Posted July 21, 2020 at 7:30am
Middle school teacher Brittany Myers, center, protests with colleages outside the Hillsborough County Schools district office July 16 in Tampa, Florida. Teachers and administrators rallied against reopening schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Districts try to plan for back to school as Congress weighs additional funding

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted July 21, 2020 at 6:30am
House appropriators included money to train new astronauts for NASA in the appropriations bills. Here NASA commercial crew astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken get ready to blast off from Cape Canaveral May 30 aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in the crew Dragon capsule bound for the International Space Station.

House proposes billions of dollars for technology throughout government

By Dean DeChiaro
Posted July 21, 2020 at 6:15am
Albert Pike’s pedestal remains empty after the statue was toppled by protesters at Judiciary Square in Washington. Above, a view of what remains of the monument on June 20, covered with graffiti.

Confederate statues targeted for removal in series of House bills

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted July 21, 2020 at 5:30am
Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis is seen in February 2015 at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., where he was beaten by police on “Bloody Sunday” in 1965 during an attempted march to Montgomery for voting rights.

Remembering John Lewis, the ‘conscience of Congress’: A life in photos

By Jason Dick
Posted July 21, 2020 at 5:00am
Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, hasn't been too keen on providing a payroll tax cut as part of coronavirus relief efforts.

Payroll tax cut on menu in coronavirus aid talks, McCarthy says

By Lindsey McPherson, David Lerman and Jennifer Shutt
Posted July 20, 2020 at 4:01pm, Updated at 7:01pm
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., conducts a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on Thursday, July 16, 2020.

Democrats raise alarm on election disinformation targeting Congress, seek FBI briefing

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted July 20, 2020 at 6:15pm
Russell Vought, left, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, talks with ranking member Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., before the House Budget Committee hearing on the White House's fiscal 2021 budget request on Wednesday, February 12, 2020.

Vought confirmed as White House budget director

By David Lerman
Posted July 20, 2020 at 6:15pm
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph F. Dunford recently backed out of the running to head congressional watchdog panel.

Fed, Treasury using virus aid funds sparingly: oversight panel

By Doug Sword
Posted July 20, 2020 at 2:31pm
UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 6: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., attend a press conference on the Voting Rights Advancement Act in the Capitol on Friday, December 6, 2019. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Watch: House holds moment of silence for Rep. John Lewis

By Thomas McKinless
Posted July 20, 2020 at 2:30pm
Bill Christeson holds up a sign that reads "Follow the Money" outside the US Supreme Court in Washington on July 9.

Supreme Court won’t speed House legal fight in Trump subpoenas

By Todd Ruger
Posted July 20, 2020 at 10:42am
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell talk before an Inaugural Ceremonies Committee meeting on June 30. Despite key disagreements, both sides, including staffers, at least agree that further virus relief is needed.

Capitol Insiders Survey: Parties are poles apart on virus relief

By Shawn Zeller
Posted July 20, 2020 at 7:00am
An empty hallway is pictured in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill. Both chambers return from recess this week to a busy agenda.

Chaotic week greets lawmakers returning to Capitol Hill as the pandemic continues

By Niels Lesniewski and Lindsey McPherson
Posted July 20, 2020 at 5:00am
From left, Reps. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., Lucy McBath, D-Ga., John Lewis, D-Ga., Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., and Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., walk through the Capitol Rotunda after watching a Senate a vote on a continuing resolution to re-open the government which failed, on Thursday, January 24, 2019.

Colleagues and leaders remember John Lewis as a humble mentor, in addition to an icon

By Katherine Tully-McManus and Lindsey McPherson
Posted July 18, 2020 at 2:26pm
Georgia Rep. John Lewis stands near a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. in the Capitol Rotunda on Oct. 24, 2019, before a memorial service for the late Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings.

John Lewis, civil rights hero and ‘conscience of Congress,’ dies at 80

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted July 18, 2020 at 12:15am
Congress has had to get creative with safely voting. How far away could remove voting be? The House Administration Committee explored some of the issues in a Friday hearing.

House lawmakers agree secure remote voting is possible, but implementation still divides

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted July 17, 2020 at 6:41pm
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is signaling he’s not willing to compromise with Democrats on liability protections in the next coronavirus aid package.

McCarthy: Liability shield shouldn’t be traded for more regulation

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted July 17, 2020 at 4:14pm
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin arrives at the Rayburn Building for the House Small Business Committee’s hearing on oversight of the Treasury Department and Small Business Administration’s pandemic programs on July 17.

Mnuchin gives hints of PPP changes in next COVID-19 relief bill

By Jim Saksa
Posted July 17, 2020 at 3:07pm
Republican Rep. Steve Watkins of Kansas has now resigned from his committees while he faces felony voting charges.

Rep. Steve Watkins gives up committee posts after initially resisting

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted July 17, 2020 at 1:54pm
Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., talks with reporters on his way to the Senate Republican luncheon June 30, 2020.

State, local coronavirus aid fight may hinge on school funds

By David Lerman and Lindsey McPherson
Posted July 16, 2020 at 6:03pm