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New members of Congress started with Jan. 6, followed closely by a legislative marathon. The congressional freshman class of 2021 took their oath of office under a cloud of partisan [...]

Government appropriations, voting rights, and a host of bipartisan priorities could take up lawmakers' time in 2022. Washington is halfway through a busy December. Next year promises to be no [...]

As senators and staff vet and negotiate the Build Back Better Act, Democrats hope to pass it next week. Senators are trying to clear the rest of their to-do list [...]

Congress voted to create a temporary exemption to Senate rules to raise the debt ceiling on a party-line vote. And more changes could be coming. Senators aren't ready to completely [...]

Additions to the annual defense-policy bill have been sidelined, and government-funding bills are at a standstill. It's a time-honored holiday tradition in Washington:As Congress seeks to wrap up its work [...]

Members of the president's party are rebelling against his nominees to run the Fed, the FDA, and the U.S. embassy in Tokyo. Senate Democrats are expected to rack up substantially [...]

The team discusses the path ahead after the government avoids a shutdown and President Biden contends with the Omicron variant. On this episode, Editor in Chief Jeff Dufour is joined [...]

Democrats have yet to announce a plan to increase the debt limit as the estimated mid-December deadline approaches. Congress has a packed schedule for December, and last week it accomplished [...]

None Senate Republicans up for reelection have in high-profile fashion pulled their levers of power to stall Democrats' agenda. But only up to a point. Senate Majority LeaderChuck Schumerhas singled [...]

A cadre of conservatives threatened to scuttle a continuing resolution over Biden's vaccine mandate for private businesses. But too many of their colleagues saw the move as a political loser. [...]

The New York Democrat is working to keep paid leave and sexual-assault-prosecution reform in two high-priority bills. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is used to multitasking. When the New York Democrat was [...]

The Senate will work on the National Defense Authorization Act before diving into negotiations with the House on the annual defense-policy bill. Congress, once again, is staring down a deadline [...]

Arcane congressional budget rules and the policy preferences of individual senators will likely rewrite the bill after they return from the Thanksgiving recess. The House may be done with the [...]

Congress is eager to pass $52 billion in semiconductor subsidies. But a contentious conference on the China-tech bill could still block their passage'and desperate lawmakers are eyeing other legislative vehicles. [...]

The North Carolina‚Çôbased tribe has been fighting for full recognition since the 19th century. The Lumbee tribe of North Carolina has been looking for full recognition by the U.S. government [...]

Senators of both parties agree they don't need to oversee confirmation of all the nominees currently subject to their approval. Lawmakers in both parties agree the Senate isn't confirming President [...]

The team previews the packed agenda on the Hill this week and for the rest of the year. On the latest episode, managing editor Mackenzie Weinger is joined by House [...]

The Senate will likely take up its version of the annual defense-policy bill this week. Democratic leadership is anxious to vote on the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act, but [...]

Democrats would need to come to an agreement with Republicans on filling some district-court vacancies'or change the rules. President Biden and the Senate are filling judicial vacancies at a historically [...]

President Biden has seen more of his nominees for circuit courts confirmed early in his presidency than any of his recent predecessors. President Biden doesn't have a spot on the [...]

Members of the Garden State's delegation are split on how to lift the Trump-era cap impacting constituents in high-tax states. As Democrats finalize their social-spending bill in the House, they're [...]

After suffering electoral losses in Virginia, Democrats say constituents would benefit from the Build Back Better Act's tax and drug pricing provisions before the midterm elections. As Sen. Bob Casey [...]

The Build Back Better Act doesn't broadly cancel student debt, and the Biden administration hasn't moved to unilaterally do so. Democrats haven't been able to secure the unilateral, sweeping action [...]

The team discusses the fate of Biden's spending priorities, and his trip to Europe amid the final negotiations. On the latest episode of the podcast, editor in chief Jeff Dufour [...]

Lawmakers huddled over the weekend in hopes of passing a bipartisan infrastructure bill and the Build Back Better Act this week. This week, with a framework for the $1.8 trillion [...]

Democratic leadership is ready to hold a vote on both infrastructure legislation and the social-spending bill, but the caucus continues pressure to resurrect dropped programs. Democratic leadership wanted to make [...]

None President Biden hopes a new $1.75 trillion reconciliation https://twitter.com/Zachary_Cohen/status/1453710172564623364 released this morning appeals to both wings of his party and keeps them in power next year. Progressives critical to [...]

The centrist Republican is reviewing additions to the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act aimed at helping American Indians and Alaska Natives, a key voting bloc in her state. Democrats [...]

Moderates and progressives who weren't around to vote for Obamacare in 2009 are trying to reshape landmark law via the reconciliation package. It's been more than a decade since the [...]

The Senate may vote on a bill restoring part of the Voting Rights Act. Democrats in Washington face another self-imposed deadline to advance trillions of dollars in spending on their [...]

While Democrats try to unify around reconciliation and election-overhaul legislation, other must-pass priorities have fallen by the wayside. Bipartisanship has hit a rough patch on Capitol Hill. With Congress bearing [...]

The former senator and vice presidential candidate weighs in on congressional Democrats, presidential recounts, and anti-Semitism. Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democrats' vice presidential nominee in 2000, now co-chairs the [...]

Emails show the Senate minority whip's staff tracking home-state Gov. Kristi Noem's political scandal as he weighs a bid for reelection. With a shutdown of the federal government looming, Senate [...]

The team discusses negotiations over the Build Back Better Act and the bipartisan infrastructure bill. In a special edition of the podcast, Senate reporter Zach Cohen and health care correspondent [...]

The House select committee on Jan. 6 is set to advance a criminal contempt referral for former Trump aide Steve Bannon. This isn't the first time that Democrats have tried [...]

Senate Democrats are embracing Minority Leader's Mitch McConnell's proposal for a fixed hike in the federal borrowing limit until December. Democrats think they've found a solution to the debt-ceiling crisis. [...]

GOP senators want Democrats to go it alone to raise the debt ceiling using congressional rules. They still would shape the pace ahead of the critical Oct. 18 deadline. Republicans [...]

The team discusses why Democrats are divided and how President Biden might be able to unite them. As Democrats bicker over the intricacies of passing legislation to advance President Biden's [...]

The Senate will vote again to suspend the debt ceiling this week. The measure is likely to fail as the Oct. 18 deadline creeps closer. Congress managed to keep the [...]

Sniping and a lack of communication over the Build Back Better Act is a symptom of long-simmering wariness. The tug-of-war between progressive and moderate Democrats over the scope and size [...]

Lawmakers haven't yet funded the government or decided how to approve vast swathes of the Democratic agenda. Congress is juggling plenty of agenda items. It's just a question of whether [...]

The self-describedpro-life' Democrat hasn't decided how he'll vote on a House-approved bill to protect abortion rights. One of the last congressional Democrats opposed to abortion rights has a big choice [...]

Government agencies run out of money at midnight Thursday unless both parties can agree to a stopgap measure. The government may shut down Thursday night, and a lot of things [...]

The team breaks down some of the key policy disagreements Democrats hope to resolve this week. Congressional Democrats hope to sign off on as much as $4.7 trillion in new [...]

The federal government will shut down Thursday night absent congressional action. Lawmakers are taking high-stakes votes on both sides of Capitol Hill this week. On the House side, President Biden's [...]

The Democrat's negotiating posture could impact not only the scope of the final reconciliation bill, but also her electoral future back home. Here's the $4.7 trillion question:What does Sen. Kyrsten [...]

As he looks to regain the post of majority leader, Mitch McConnell is balancing a restive Republican base with a desire to secure legislative accomplishments. It was the spring of [...]

The Senate is expected to vote on a slimmed down version of Democrats' election-overhaul bill. Over the next two weeks, Congress will attempt to cram months worth of legislating into [...]

Just as Sen. Ted Cruz opens up more avenues for confirmation of State Department nominees, Sens. Josh Hawley and Roger Marshall are throwing up their own roadblocks. It's one step [...]

Some Democrats want to pressure the White House to submit a new legal underpinning for counterterrorism operations by repealing the 2001 authorization of military force. The difficult work of changing [...]