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 ...

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

The high-speed rail project would connect major cities like Vancouver, Seattle and Portland with regular train service ...

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

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, who championed the law that created the new FAFSA, said the form is no longer plagued by the problems ...

As we work through college application season, students nationwide will be filling out a FAFSA form. Which, for many, is ...