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Byline: Julie Zauzmer Weil Lawmakers seized on the opportunity presented by the massive end-of-year spending bill making its way through Congress to insert some of their favorite changes, including modifying [...]

Byline: Sean Sullivan and Tyler Pager Gilda Cobb-Hunter is furious with fellow Democrats. A veteran social worker, civil rights activist and the longest-serving member of the South Carolina State House, [...]

For Print Use Only. The following editorial appears in The Washington Post: The coronavirus pandemic poses economic as well as public health risks. President Donald Trump and Congress already are [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman The idea of passing a sorely needed infrastructure bill has been raised and shelved so many times since Donald Trump became president that 'Infrastructure Week' has become [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis, Felicia Sonmez and Josh Dawsey WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday helped derail a bipartisan casino bill opposed by a key White House ally after tying [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump took a position Wednesday on one of the most obscure bills of his presidency. Shortly thereafter, the bill was pulled from the [...]

Byline: Joseph Marks WASHINGTON - Congress scrambled in early 2018 to deliver a surge in election security money before the midterms. But it turns out that states only spent about [...]

Byline: Eric Yoder WASHINGTON - Federal employees would pay more toward their retirement benefits from salaries that generally would be frozen, under the Trump administration's budget proposal released Monday. The [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis WASHINGTON - House Democrats are set to approve on Friday a far-reaching elections and ethics reform bill - one that would change the way congressional elections are [...]

Democratic copycats of Russian disinformation techniques, it seems, did not restrict themselves to one state this past election cycle: Late last year, The Washington Post reported on a project backed [...]

Byline: Erica Werner and Damian PalettaWASHINGTON - President Donald Trump pledged Thursday to do 'whatever it takes to get border security,' deepening an impasse over border wall funding barely a [...]

Byline: Derek Hawkins WASHINGTON - After years of debate, Congress is poised to vote on legislation that would cement the Department of Homeland Security's role as the government's main civilian [...]

This appeared in Thursday's Washington Post. - - - If President Donald Trump, or anyone else for that matter, wants to make a small but meaningful election-year dent in the [...]

Byline: Erica Werner and Mike DeBonis WASHINGTON - After passing tax cuts and spending that added massively to the deficit, congressional Republicans made a show of fiscal austerity Thursday by [...]

Byline: Erica Werner and Mike DeBonis WASHINGTON - After passing tax cuts and spending that added massively to the deficit, congressional Republicans are preparing to make a show of fiscal [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis and Erica Werner WASHINGTON - Congress cleared a sweeping $1.3 trillion spending bill early Friday that doles out enormous increases to military and domestic programs alike, as [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis and Erica Werner WASHINGTON - The House on Thursday passed a sweeping $1.3 trillion spending bill that doles out enormous increases to military and domestic programs alike, [...]

Byline: Darryl Fears and Dino Grandoni The spending bill passed by the House of Representatives on Thursday would increase funding the National Park Service needs to address its nearly $12 [...]

Byline: William Wan and Sean Sullivan WASHINGTON - Accompanying the $1.3 trillion spending bill that the House passed Thursday afternoon is language that may open the door slightly to restoring [...]

Byline: William Wan Buried in the $1.3 trillion spending bill that the House passed Thursday afternoon is language that may open the door slightly to restoring federal funding for gun [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis, Robert Costa and Erica Werner WASHINGTON - Negotiators closed in on a $1.3 trillion spending deal Wednesday that includes some obstacles to President Donald Trump's immigration agenda [...]

Byline: Damian Paletta President Donald Trump on Monday will offer a budget plan that falls far short of eliminating the government's deficit over 10 years, conceding that huge tax cuts [...]

This appeared in Wednesday's Washington Post: --- Perhaps no institution is more important to the functioning of American democracy than the census, the once-a-decade count of the U.S. population that [...]

Byline: Tory Newmyer Here's hoping you had a restful holiday, because Washington is starting the new year with a whole lot on its plate. Looming early and large: The federal [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis and Ed O'Keefe WASHINGTON - House Republican leaders filed a government funding bill late Wednesday that bows to the wishes of conservative lawmakers but is widely seen [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis and Ed O'Keefe WASHINGTON - House Republican leaders filed a government funding bill late Wednesday that bows to the wishes of conservative lawmakers but is widely seen [...]

Byline: Ed O'Keefe and Sean Sullivan WASHINGTON - House Republicans are divided over the terms of a stopgap plan to avert a partial shutdown of the federal government, heightening tensions [...]

Byline: Ed O'Keefe and Sean Sullivan WASHINGTON - House Republicans are divided over the terms of a stopgap plan to avert a partial shutdown of the federal government, heightening tensions [...]

Byline: Ed O'Keefe Congress gave final approval on Tuesday to a $36.5 billion emergency spending plan to pay for ongoing relief from recent natural disasters - but lawmakers from storm-ravaged [...]

Byline: Geoffrey Stone and Michael Morell Congress is about to make a major decision about privacy protection, civil liberties and national security. The 2008 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act, including [...]

Byline: John Podesta As President Donald Trump visits Puerto Rico, he has a lot to answer for, given his tone-deaf tweets from his Bedminster, N.J., golf outing, the incredible claim [...]

Byline: Jenna Johnson On the campaign trail, Donald Trump pitched himself as a dealmaker who would look out for the country's 'forgotten people,' 'drain the swamp,' unite the country, 'immediately [...]

Byline: Emily Yahr While streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora may be background noise to lots of people (at work, at a party, in the car), for songwriters, they're [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips WASHINGTON - It's hard to overstate what a barrier President Trump's border wall has been for getting things done in Washington. And if he has given up [...]

Byline: Philip Rucker, Sean Sullivan and Mike DeBonis WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is strategically separating himself from Republicans in Congress, an extraordinary move to deflect personal blame if the [...]

Byline: Lisa Rein WASHINGTON - The Secret Service said Monday that it has enough money to cover the cost of protecting President Donald Trump and his family through the end [...]

Byline: Maura Judkis WASHINGTON - It's taboo to eat horse in America. Anyone who wants to kill horses for human consumption in the United States will face plenty of obstacles [...]

This appeared in Wednesday's Washington Post: --- Emblems of dysfunction in Washington are plentiful, but even in that crowded field, the government's failure to relocate the FBI from its disintegrating, [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis WASHINGTON - An old problem for congressional Republicans - passing a budget - has resurfaced with potential devastating consequences for President Donald Trump's legislative agenda. A standoff [...]

Byline: Ed Rogers When congressional negotiators reached a budget agreement late Sunday night, the breaking news was followed by predictably tiresome complaints, whining and hand-wringing from so-called fiscally conservative Republicans. [...]

Byline: Kelsey Snell and Ed O'Keefe Lawmakers reached an agreement late Sunday on a broad spending package to fund the federal government through the end of the fiscal year in [...]

Byline: Kimberly Kindy WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are poised to roll back a series of Obama-era worker safety regulations targeted by business groups, starting with a [...]