By Steve Benen About a month after Election Day, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan started taking a closer look into the criminal case against one of his former GOP colleagues, former ...

In the DNC race back then, Howard Dean was selected as the next party chair. In the midterms, Democrats routed the GOP and won control of Congress, and two years later Barack Obama was elected to the ...

In the modern, deeply partisan era, one of the main ways that Congress can accomplish major policy goals is through reconciliation, a budget process ...

Jan. 26 Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told NBC he is inclined to vote in favor of all of Trump’s nominees, but wants to “see how the hearing goes,” specifically citing Gabbard’s controversial visit to ...

Just a matter of days into the new Trump administration, LGBTQ+ issues have already been brought to the forefront.

Several of Donald Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and key roles in his administration are facing confirmation hearings in the Senate today as the president continues to implement executive actions to ...

It’s Gabbard’s comments, however, that have posed the biggest challenge to her confirmation. Gabbard has repeatedly echoed ...

Republicans confessed their own constituents are concerned after President Donald Trump issued a total freeze across all ...

We all learned early in life that the Founding Fathers gave Congress the “Power of the Purse” on spending to act as a check on the executive branch, but it sure hasn’t looked like that in the early ...

Republicans are floating a list of ideas to help offset the cost of planned tax cuts including a proposal to make graduate ...

Welcome to the White House’s own cinematic universe. Plus, the upcoming Democratic National Committee election and how ...

Two of Donald Trump’s former Cabinet secretaries are outlining a vision for American energy dominance that embraces all forms ...