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Members of Congress arrive and depart the vote on the rule for the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act on Friday. The House floor will be quiet this week, but the Senate will continue working on nominations. Both chambers are scheduled to hold hearings.

Amid the pandemic, Senate floor still all about the nominations: Road Ahead

By Chris Cioffi
Posted May 19, 2020 at 5:00am
Steve Linick departs from a briefing on Ukraine on Capitol Hill on Oct. 2, 2019.

Lawmakers cry foul over firing of State inspector general

By Rachel Oswald
Posted May 18, 2020 at 7:31pm
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, facing a tough reelection campaign, says new legislation would deliver at least $2 billion for her home state.

State, local virus aid bill gains bipartisan momentum

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted May 18, 2020 at 6:41pm
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., will be acting Intelligence chairman.

Rubio named acting Senate Intelligence chairman

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted May 18, 2020 at 4:52pm
Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in March.

USCIS seeks $1.2 billion from Congress

By Camila DeChalus
Posted May 18, 2020 at 4:04pm
A lone protester holds a sign calling for an end to the lockdown outside the White House on Saturday, April 25. Republicans have generally pushed for a faster reopening than Democrats have.

Ideological fault lines of economic reopening emerge

By Shawn Zeller
Posted May 18, 2020 at 11:40am
Public transit systems like Washington's Metro, got a specific nod in the latest relief legislation.

Transportation providers focused on the relief bill parade

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted May 18, 2020 at 10:39am
Sen. Patrick J. Toomey, R-Pa., is a member of both the Banking Committee and the new oversight panel created by March virus aid law.

Virus aid oversight report raises questions before key hearing

By Doug Sword
Posted May 18, 2020 at 10:07am
UNITED STATES - MAY 15: Members of Congress arrive and depart the vote on the rule for the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act on Friday, May 15, 2020. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

House narrowly passes $3 trillion coronavirus aid bill

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted May 15, 2020 at 9:28pm
Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., wearing his New England Patriots mask, walks down the House steps after voting on Friday.

Historic rule change OKs House proxy votes and virtual committees

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted May 15, 2020 at 7:18pm
Retired Marine Paul Masi pauses by the name of a high school classmate on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall on Veterans Day in 2019. A bill to add the names of 74 men killed on the USS Frank E. Evans in 1969 was debated Thursday in the Senate.

‘They belong on that wall’ — bill to honor ‘Lost 74’ on Vietnam Memorial keeps running aground

By Chris Cioffi
Posted May 15, 2020 at 3:37pm
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler said the FISA legislation could come up under proxy voting procedures.

FISA overhaul could be an early test of House voting by proxy

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted May 15, 2020 at 3:23pm
Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, removes his face mask while walking down the House steps after voting on the rule for the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act on Friday.

Photos of the week: Face mask edition

By Bill Clark, Tom Williams and Caroline Brehman
Posted May 15, 2020 at 1:57pm
Speaker Nancy Pelosi reads a letter she wrote to members about the latest coronavirus relief bill during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday.

Virus aid bill and proxy voting readied for House action

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted May 14, 2020 at 9:00pm
More than 36 million people have filed for jobless benefits in the eight weeks since the COVID-19 pandemic brought widespread business closures.

Democrats, eyeing GOP, extend but don’t top up jobless benefit

By Mark Bocchetti
Posted May 14, 2020 at 6:14pm
Utah Sen. Mike Lee, left, here with South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham at a hearing Tuesday, says his amendment “will help bring some much-needed oversight and accountability to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.”

Senate passes amended FISA surveillance overhaul

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted May 14, 2020 at 3:06pm
Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, says he'll support the new coronavirus relief bill but "we're not done yet" fighting for additional aid.

House vote on aid bill set despite Democrats upset over omissions

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted May 14, 2020 at 2:25pm
Senator Richard M. Burr is stepping down from the chairmanship of the Intelligence Committee.

Burr steps aside as Intelligence chairman as stock sale scandal grows

By Chris Marquette
Posted May 14, 2020 at 12:32pm, Updated at 1:41pm
Richard Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, arrives Thursday for a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing to discuss protecting scientific integrity in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

HHS whistleblower: Let scientists speak ‘without fear of retribution’

By Thomas McKinless
Posted May 14, 2020 at 11:47am
Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., speaks with a staffer last week.

Suicide prevention hotline bill inches closer to Trump’s desk

By Chris Cioffi
Posted May 14, 2020 at 10:14am
Health care workers place a COVID-19 test into a cooler at a drive-thru testing facility at George Washington University.

Trump to name former drug executive, Army general to lead vaccine search

By Lauren Clason
Posted May 13, 2020 at 9:08pm
House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., chaired the initial meeting of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.

Panel finds experts skittish on quick reopening of economy

By Sandhya Raman
Posted May 13, 2020 at 8:42pm
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, wants to get his committee assignments back.

Some top Republicans opposed to King regaining committee posts

By Chris Marquette
Posted May 13, 2020 at 4:48pm
Wednesday’s vote on the surveillance amendment from Sens. Mike Lee, above, and Patrick J. Leahy, was seen as a victory for more civil libertarian-minded senators.

Senate amends surveillance bill to add new oversight

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted May 13, 2020 at 4:24pm
An airliner takes off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Democrats’ bill would force airlines to make more refunds

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted May 13, 2020 at 3:44pm
Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, is the president's nominee for director of national intelligence.

Feinstein, King press intelligence nominee on torture

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted May 13, 2020 at 3:13pm
House Rules Chairman Jim McGovern, D-Mass., will preside over a markup of a resolution to change House rules to allow proxy voting.

House Democrats ready proxy voting rules change

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted May 13, 2020 at 11:18am, Updated at 3:11pm
Daniel Koors waves an American flag as he sits on a semi-truck as he and a group of other truck drivers demonstrate along Constitution Avenue as they call for the Department of Justice to investigate illicit price gouging by freight brokers on Monday. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call/Pool)

Truckers ask for transparency: ‘Hear me loud and clear, we are not leaving’

By Jinitzail Hernández
Posted May 13, 2020 at 2:50pm
Nevada Democratic Sens. Jacky Rosen, left, and Catherine Cortez Masto, both approve of President Donald Trump’s pick for a federal district court vacancy in their state.

Senate Democrats sore on ‘right-wing judges,’ but they’re OK with the nominees headed to floor soon

By Chris Cioffi
Posted May 13, 2020 at 1:56pm
Airplanes are parked at their gates at Los Angeles International Airport.

Pilots demand recommended COVID-19 protocols be required

By Caroline Tanner
Posted May 13, 2020 at 1:32pm