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With a decisive margin in the Senate, Republicans, who have shown their willingness to accommodate the president-elect, will have the numbers to overcome divisions over his personnel and policies. Republicans' [...]

After picking up seats in West Virginia, Ohio and Montana and winning an unexpectedly close race in Nebraska, the G.O.P. sealed a majority. Tight races in swing states will determine [...]

After two years and a multibillion-dollar barrage of political attack ads, the fight for Senate control is down to a handful of races, with Republicans holding a clear edge but [...]

A G.O.P. House and Senate could advance Trump-backed legislation and nominees, but thin margins and the filibuster could pose roadblocks and cause Republicans political trouble. Former President Donald J. Trump [...]

The novice Republican candidate's honesty has come into question in a race that could decide Senate control. Tim Sheehy, the novice Republican candidate in perhaps the most important Senate race [...]

Carl Hulse has covered congressional campaigns for four decades. Much has changed, but one thing remains constant: Journalists must be ready for the unexpected. The first Senate race I covered [...]

Once able to win on the prairie, the Democratic Party sees the Senate race in Montana as a final test of whether it can still be successful in heavily rural [...]

Congressional leaders deferred a debate over sending federal money to respond to Hurricane Helene until after the election, delaying a potentially messy political fight. When congressional leaders decided not to [...]

With Democrats waging an uphill battle to hold the Senate, the vice president, should she win, could end up facing a Republican firewall with veto power over her cabinet, court [...]

They hope to use the time after the election to approve judges, but Senator Durbin says their aggressive efforts have already produced a remarkable demographic shift on the federal courts. [...]

Both Republicans and Democrats opposed the stopgap funding bill, which was tied to new rules requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote. The House on Wednesday defeated a [...]

The House speaker faces a choice of cutting a deal with Democrats or bowing to conservatives and Donald Trump and shutting down the government just before the election. With a […]

The speaker's first effort to avert a government shutdown ran into a buzz saw of opposition from both far-right and mainstream Republicans. Speaker Mike Johnson's initial plan to avert a [...]

Clashes over both the duration of a stopgap bill and whether it should include a noncitizen voting measure demanded by the G.O.P. could force a government shutdown at the end [...]

The president's allies in the chamber he so revered feared he would drag them down and spoil his own legacy, and played a more assertive role than was previously known [...]

The vice president forged important relationships in her four years on Capitol Hill, but she cast some of her most significant votes after moving to the White House. Follow the [...]

As they gather to formally nominate Vice President Kamala Harris, top Democrats say their candidates -- who they feared would be dragged to defeat by President Biden -- now have [...]

A new book by the former speaker details her clashes with the former president, but it was written before her most recent exercise of political might: helping persuade President Biden [...]

Incumbents who had feared President Biden would drag them down to defeat say the electoral environment has improved rapidly since he left the race. Senator Martin Heinrich, a two-term Democrat [...]

The former speaker has been marshaling her knowledge of the political map, polling data and fund-raising information to press her case with President Biden that his re-election is in serious […]

The president has given no indication that he is changing his mind about staying in the race but is said to be more willing to listen to the case for [...]

J.D. Vance, a newcomer to the Senate from Ohio, stood on the chamber floor in April and scolded his more experienced colleagues for their desire to continue backing Ukraine in [...]

The majority leader has been caught in an awkward spot as he balances his role as President Biden's Senate champion with his determination to hold the majority and the White [...]

It's a change from 2016, when House Republicans were the preferred candidates. At least two senators -- J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio -- are on the short list for the […]

For Donald F. McGahn II, the former White House counsel, and Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican, sweeping anti-regulatory rulings are the big payoff of their drive to reshape the [...]

The combination of President Biden's debate performance and adverse Supreme Court rulings left Democrats reeling and in despair with elections not far off. Democrats confronted a nightmare scenario on Friday [...]

The victory by the MAGA lawmaker in the conservative eastern part of the state put her on track to another term in the House, after she abandoned a more politically [...]

Democrats sought to quickly reinstate a ban on gun bump stocks after a Supreme Court ruling. It was the latest Senate floor fight to end in a predictable stalemate. In [...]

Democrats failed in their effort to override last week's Supreme Court ruling with legislation, but saw some political benefits to the clash. Senate Democrats failed on Tuesday to overcome Republican [...]

Democrats made what they knew was a doomed attempt as they faced pressure from the left to do more to try to hold the court accountable. Senate Republicans on Wednesday [...]

They say their options are limited by the court's status as a separate branch of government and deep Republican opposition. Senate Democrats are facing intensifying pressure from the left for [...]

To date, the effort has not produced results, as the Republicans who have promised to hold up nominees and legislation are the ones who usually oppose them anyway. Senator Rick [...]

The Kentuckian is deeply invested in trying to deliver a majority for his party before he exits leadership, capping a record-breaking run. As the 2022 elections approached with some Republican [...]

The party is pursuing a ''sword and shield'' political strategy as Senator Chuck Schumer pushes showdown votes on border security and abortion rights ahead of this year's elections. In losing [...]

A successful bipartisan effort to force a vote on disaster relief is just the latest example of how procedural norms have been upended in the House. A bipartisan group of [...]

Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans want more federal money for the military. But Democrats say domestic programs must get an equivalent boost. Just weeks after Congress settled its long-running [...]

Democrats saved the speaker but want to oust him at the ballot box in November, while his standing in his own party remains in serious question. The notion that the [...]

Republicans and Democrats banded together to block a motion by the right-wing Georgia congresswoman to remove the speaker. Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday easily batted down an attempt by Representative [...]

Members of the upper chamber are regularly holding votes on amendments that, by design, have no chance whatsoever of passage. Senator Eric Schmitt, a freshman Republican from Missouri, is new [...]

Party leaders said their members would join an effort to table any attempt to remove the Republican speaker after he allowed House passage of military aid to Ukraine. House Democrats [...]

The House Democratic leader has suggested his members would protect Speaker Mike Johnson if right-wing Republicans tried to oust him over Ukraine aid, strengthening the speaker's hand. When Representative Hakeem [...]

The majority leader says the measure to help Ukraine and other recent bipartisan efforts show there is a path to success on Capitol Hill. But deep partisan differences and institutional [...]

The leader said he often ''felt like I was the only Reagan Republican left'' as he pushed back on rising forces in his party arguing against American intervention in foreign [...]

The far right finds itself marginalized in the House as Speaker Johnson pushes through aid to Ukraine and Israel by relying on Democrats. When Congress convened in 2023, an empowered [...]

The far right finds itself marginalized in the House as Speaker Johnson pushes through aid to Ukraine and Israel by relying on Democrats. When Congress convened in 2023, an empowered [...]

Republicans say the quick dismissal of charges against Alejandro Mayorkas sets a dangerous precedent. Democrats say the mistake would have been to treat the case seriously. Senate Republicans outraged at [...]

The speaker, who has delayed for months amid G.O.P. opposition to funding for Kyiv, said he would bring up foreign aid legislation along with a bill aimed at appeasing Republican [...]

The speaker, who has delayed for months amid G.O.P. opposition to funding for Kyiv, said he would bring up foreign aid legislation along with a bill aimed at appeasing Republican [...]

Adeel Mangi would be the first Muslim American to be a federal appeals court judge, but has faced vitriolic attacks from the G.O.P. The president could run out of time [...]

Adeel Mangi would be the first Muslim American to be a federal appeals court judge, but has faced vitriolic attacks from the G.O.P. The president could run out of time [...]