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Philomena Wannenge holds up a fist as she and more than a thousand demonstrators protest the death of George Floyd outside of the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, June 3, 2020.

The two very different ends of Pennsylvania Avenue

By Jason Dick
Posted June 3, 2020 at 7:54pm
Russell Vought, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, arrives to testify during a House Budget Committee hearing on Feb. 12, 2020.

OMB nominee gets earful from Democratic senators

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted June 3, 2020 at 6:16pm
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, holds a news conference on sanctuary cities with online personalities Diamond and Silk at the Capitol in June 2019.

Steve King moves from lightning rod to lame duck

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted June 3, 2020 at 4:48pm
Jackson Brundage, 8, of Los Angeles, takes pictures during tour in Statuary Hall in this archive photo.

Senators want Dred Scott author’s bust replaced with Thurgood Marshall

By Chris Cioffi
Posted June 3, 2020 at 4:23pm
"China holds an overwhelming advantage in access to critical minerals and the COVID-19 pandemic has made it dangerously clear that we can’t take our supply for granted," said Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., a cosponsor of a bill to ease mining rules.

In pandemic, GOP sees opportunity for critical minerals bill

By Elvina Nawaguna
Posted June 3, 2020 at 2:14pm
A sign calling for essential travel only appeared along I-95 in Maryland.

Democrats offer $494 billion transport bill targeting economy, climate

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted June 3, 2020 at 10:00am
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, arrives for the Senate Republicans' lunch in the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday.

Budget nominee looks set to clear at least one Senate hurdle

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted June 2, 2020 at 6:40pm
Democratic senators were skeptical that Miller, shown here at his confirmation hearing, would be independent of the White House. Miller comes from the White House counsel's office.

Senate confirms Miller to be pandemic inspector general

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 2, 2020 at 5:56pm
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is one of two GOP senators holding up a vote on a House PPP bill. Lee wants the program to expire in August.

Sens. Lee, Johnson slow bill tweaking SBA COVID-19 loan program

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 2, 2020 at 5:27pm
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, shown in the Capitol when he was a House member, appeared with two other governors before a subcommittee Tuesday and said more transparency was needed about federal COVID-19 testing supplies.

Democratic govenors seek federal COVID-19 testing coordination

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted June 2, 2020 at 4:49pm
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, left, and Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

House panel wants Pentagon leaders to testify on protests

By John M. Donnelly
Posted June 2, 2020 at 3:16pm
Attorney General William Barr arrives at the Capitol to attend the Senate Republican policy luncheon on Feb. 25.

Nadler seeks to punish Barr for not testifying

By Todd Ruger
Posted June 2, 2020 at 3:15pm
"What we have is a disagreement on principle," House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter A. DeFazio, D-Ore., said of Republican complaints about the infrastructure bill.

Sources: House Democrats plan Wednesday rollout of highway bill

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted June 2, 2020 at 2:09pm
A demonstrator is detained by police near the White House on Sunday during protests over the death of George Floyd.

Lawmakers dust off old proposals on police overhauls

By Todd Ruger
Posted June 2, 2020 at 1:59pm
Police in riot gear react to demonstrators as they gather to protest the death of George Floyd near the White House in Washington on Sunday, May 31, 2020.

House may return early to consider policing overhaul

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted June 2, 2020 at 12:43pm
Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., a member of the House Armed Services Committee, says he hopes his legislation will end the practice of surplus military gear going to law enforcement departments.

Lawmakers eye NDAA to limit military gear transfers to police

By Andrew Clevenger
Posted June 2, 2020 at 7:00am
Russell Vought, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, arrives to testify during the House Budget Committee hearing on “the president's 2021 Budget” in the Cannon House Office Building on Feb. 12, 2020.

Trump’s budget chief pick prepares to run confirmation gantlet

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted June 2, 2020 at 5:01am
Milk is poured into a demonstrator's eyes to neutralize the effect of pepper spray as demonstrators gather to protest the death of George Floyd near the White House in Washington on Sunday, May 31, 2020.

Congress plotting action against police brutality, racial injustices in response to Floyd death

By Lindsey McPherson and Chris Cioffi
Posted June 2, 2020 at 5:00am
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie took fire from House appropriators over the Nazi headstones issue at a hearing Thursday.

Reversing course, VA will start process to remove Nazi grave markings

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted June 1, 2020 at 7:37pm
A worker cleans outside the Hay-Adams Hotel on Monday, after weekend protests sparked by the death of George Floyd occurred near the White House.

Road ahead: Senate schedule so far unaffected by protests, DC curfews

By Niels Lesniewski and Lindsey McPherson
Posted June 1, 2020 at 6:59pm
Businesses like the King Street Oyster Bar in Washington's NoMa neighborhood are starting to reopen, but Democrats say more economic aid is needed.

CBO: Democrats’ latest virus aid bill to cost nearly $3.5 trillion

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted June 1, 2020 at 6:25pm
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate would take up a House bill on PPP flexibility.

McConnell says Senate to take up House’s PPP flexibility bill

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 1, 2020 at 5:25pm
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn, D-S.C., conduct a news conference in in April on COVID-19 relief funding.

The House’s legislative ambitions will have to wait

By Shawn Zeller
Posted June 1, 2020 at 12:31pm
From left, Bobby Berk, Tan France, Jonathan Van Ness and Antoni Porowski, from the Netflix series “Queer Eye,’ are seen in the Capitol in April 2019 after meeting with Speaker Nancy Pelosi to advocate the Equality Act.

The Equality Act has languished in McConnell’s Senate but sponsor says it’s still historic

By Chris Cioffi
Posted June 1, 2020 at 11:53am, Updated at 11:53am
Rep. Scott Peters, D-Calif., is leading an effort on his side of the aisle to acknowledge the huge fiscal cost of coronavirus relief.

Bipartisan group wants deficits addressed in next virus aid bill

By David Lerman
Posted June 1, 2020 at 11:00am, Updated at 11:00am
Pages lead the procession of the Senate on Jan. 6, 2017, through the Capitol Rotunda into the House chamber with the Electoral College ballot boxes. The pages’ fall semester has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Old law could leave 2020 presidential race in stalemate

By Todd Ruger
Posted June 1, 2020 at 6:00am
UNITED STATES - MARCH 10: President Donald Trump talks to reporters about coronavirus after meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

Trump going ahead with pulling the US back from the World Health Organization

By Niels Lesniewski and Lauren Clason
Posted May 29, 2020 at 4:09pm, Updated at 5:28pm
House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., and her panel colleagues have a busy summer ahead of them.

Hoyer: Appropriations markups to start in late June

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted May 29, 2020 at 2:56pm
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md., released an updated House schedule for the year on Friday.

Updated House calendar has only one voting day in June, 12 in July

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted May 29, 2020 at 2:22pm
Rep. Donna Shalala, D-Fla.

Campus Notebook: Shalala finishes selling unrestricted stock

By Chris Marquette
Posted May 29, 2020 at 2:00pm