Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has an unconventional idea: electing Elon Musk as speaker of the House of Representatives.

WASHINGTON – Congress careened toward a government shutdown on Thursday after President-elect Donald Trump sank a bipartisan deal that would have funded the government until March, then endorsed a ...

Prisons are not places where justice lives or where Indigenous healing and community-building thrive. From his leadership of ...

Oregon lawmakers announced new federal funding for planning the development of high-speed rail in the Pacific Northwest.

U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema warned that eliminating the Senate filibuster would be a “devolution” and a “danger to our dear ...

The Feds are giving almost $50 million to begin planning for the proposed Cascadia High-Speed Rail project. The dream is to ...

Senator Patty Murray emphasized the urgency of finalizing a bipartisan continuing resolution and disaster relief package to ...

In his first week as a federal judge, Murray Gurfein was assigned the biggest case of his life. He’d just been nominated to ...

Leaders in Congress unveiled a measure to keep the government funded, facing a Friday night deadline to avert a government ...

As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. makes the rounds on Capitol Hill, talking this week with Republican senators about his contentious ...

Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray of Washington says at a weekly news conference that Congress is close to a ...

At Friday’s Higher Education and Workforce Development Senate Committee meeting, the committee's most important item was the ...