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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks as House Democrats gather for a press event on the House steps ahead of the vote on the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020 on June 25.

House passes policing bill amid familiar partisan stalemate

By Todd Ruger
Posted June 25, 2020 at 5:24pm, Updated at 9:21pm
Members of the D.C. National Guard patrol the Lincoln Memorial on June 3, after days of protests sparked by the death of George Floyd.

Senate eyes protest-sparked NDAA proposals

By John M. Donnelly
Posted June 25, 2020 at 4:29pm
Mark Morgan, acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, testifies during the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing titled “CBP Oversight: Examining the Evolving Challenges Facing the Agency,” in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on June 25, 2020.

Screening of unaccompanied minors amid pandemic questioned

By Camila DeChalus
Posted June 25, 2020 at 4:13pm
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., on Capitol Hill on June 11.

Republicans ready counterpunch over Confederate-named military bases

By John M. Donnelly
Posted June 24, 2020 at 6:50pm
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., speaks during Wednesday's hearing on oversight of the Justice Department and a probe into the politicization of the department under Attorney General William Barr.

House Judiciary members trade barbs over Barr as he agrees to testify before panel

By Todd Ruger
Posted June 24, 2020 at 5:50pm
President Donald Trump at the American Center for Mobility in Ypsilanti, Mich., with General Motors CEO Mary Barra in 2017.

Whistleblower: Probe of California, automakers over emissions deal was a sham

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted June 24, 2020 at 5:38pm
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., right, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., conduct a news conference after the Senate Republican Policy luncheon in Hart Building on Tuesday.

Senate GOP policing bill stalls as Democrats block it on floor, attention swerves to House

By Chris Cioffi, Katherine Tully-McManus and Lindsey McPherson
Posted June 24, 2020 at 12:52pm
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, prepares to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, June 23, 2020. Trump administration health officials will tell lawmakers that their agencies are preparing for a flu season that will be complicated by the coronavirus pandemic. Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg/POOL

Fauci says no slowdown in testing, despite Trump’s non-joke

By Mary Ellen McIntire and Thomas McKinless
Posted June 23, 2020 at 6:18pm
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin arrives to testify before the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee on implementation of coronavirus relief programs on June 10, 2020.

White House, GOP plot next moves on coronavirus relief

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted June 23, 2020 at 3:41pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., visits DACA protesters outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 18. On Tuesday he encouraged GOP Senate colleagues to engage in bipartisan negotiations on a policing bill.

Senate GOP policing bill might be stranded at the gate

By Chris Cioffi
Posted June 23, 2020 at 11:53am, Updated at 2:04pm
California Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier, chairwoman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel, wrote the NDAA’s provisions on extremism.

Armed Services’ agenda has newly pressing topic: Race

By John M. Donnelly
Posted June 23, 2020 at 5:30am
Police in riot gear stand in front of the White House on May 31, 2020, as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd.

Interior watchdog to probe Park Police clash with demonstrators

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted June 22, 2020 at 10:18pm
Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., arrives for a pen and pad briefing in the Senate Press Gallery where reporters practiced social distancing on June 18, 2020.

Road ahead: Dueling policing bills and DC statehood to get votes

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted June 22, 2020 at 5:38pm
Advocates are calling on Appropriations committee leaders, from left, Sen. Richard C. Shelby, Reps. Nita M. Lowey and Kay Granger, and Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, to increase legislative branch funding.

Groups call on appropriators to increase funding for committees, member offices

By Chris Marquette
Posted June 22, 2020 at 9:00am
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, left, talks with his GOP colleagues Wednesday before a news conference to unveil their policing overhaul bill.

Policing overhaul hinges on compromise

By Shawn Zeller
Posted June 22, 2020 at 7:00am
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.

Matt Gaetz describes himself as ‘single step-parent’ to Nestor Galban

By Paul V. Fontelo
Posted June 19, 2020 at 5:34pm, Updated June 20, 2020 at 2:29am
Cannon House Office Building

Coronavirus cases climbing among front-line workers in Congress

By Chris Marquette
Posted June 19, 2020 at 1:21pm
The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) sent its completed report — examining whether Rep. Sanford D. Bishop Jr., D-Ga., improperly spent campaign cash — shows the Georgia Democrat’s campaign has paid Perkins Coie $78,000 for “legal services.”

Campus Notebook: Rep. Sanford Bishop’s legal bills start piling up as Ethics inquiry progresses

By Chris Marquette
Posted June 19, 2020 at 1:15pm
Republican senators Susan Collins of Maine, left, and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia oppose the nomination of Nancy Beck to lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

GOP opposition may thwart Trump’s consumer safety nominee

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted June 19, 2020 at 12:56pm
Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz has a son, a fact he kept concealed from those who previously asked about whether he had a family.

Matt Gaetz and the until-now unknown adopted son from Cuba

By Paul V. Fontelo
Posted June 18, 2020 at 6:48pm
Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., shown walking through the atrium in the Hart Senate Office Building on June 10, cautioned Thursday against rushing a coronavirus vaccine for political reasons.

Science to drive vaccine efforts, not politics, nominee pledges

By Andrew Clevenger
Posted June 18, 2020 at 3:41pm
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has ordered the removal in the Capitol of portraits of former speakers who served in the Confederacy.

Confederate portraits flagged for removal by Pelosi ahead of Juneteenth

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted June 18, 2020 at 12:01pm, Updated at 3:29pm
Justin Reed Walker puts on a mask after testifying before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit on May 6, 2020. He was confirmed Thursday.

McConnell protege Justin Walker confirmed to powerful DC Circuit Court

By Chris Cioffi
Posted June 18, 2020 at 2:28pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., visits DACA protesters outside of the Supreme Court on Thursday, June 18, 2020, after the court rejected the Trump administration's push to end DACA.

Supreme Court tells Trump administration it must redo Dreamers move

By Todd Ruger
Posted June 18, 2020 at 10:49am, Updated at 1:41pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., visits protesters outside of the Supreme Court on Thursday, June 18, 2020, after the court rejected the Trump administration’'s push to end the DACA program.

‘I cried tears of joy’ — Democratic leaders react to DACA decision

By Thomas McKinless
Posted June 18, 2020 at 1:06pm
Federal public lands, including Yellowstone National Park, would get money to catch up on maintenance under the bill.

Pretty pictures sold Trump on outdoors bill, backers say

By Elvina Nawaguna
Posted June 17, 2020 at 5:46pm, Updated at 7:54pm
Members of the House Judiciary Committee mark up the "George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020" on Wednesday.

House policing bill headed to floor after drawing fiery exchanges over race

By Todd Ruger
Posted June 17, 2020 at 7:17pm
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., left, talks with his GOP colleagues before attending a news conference to announce a Republican policing bill on Wednesday.

Key differences exist among House, Senate and White House policing plans

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted June 17, 2020 at 7:02pm
Sens. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., right, and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., talk as they arrive in the Capitol via the Senate subway on Feb. 12, 2020.

Senate spending bills face delay over amendment fight

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted June 17, 2020 at 5:18pm
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has asked chairmen to enforce mask requirements.

Face masks required in House committee hearings, congressional physician says

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted June 17, 2020 at 11:33am, Updated at 3:37pm