Politics & Policy

The 117th Congress will be the most diverse group of federal lawmakers yet.

The vote was 216 for Pelosi, 209 for House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy of California.

The conversation was the latest in an unprecedented effort by a sitting president to pressure a state official to reverse the outcome of a free and fair election that he lost.

A growing number of Republicans are working to overturn Joe Biden's victory over President Donald Trump, and a surge of COVID-19 infections is imposing limits at the Capitol.

Rep Mike Reese, first elected to the state House in 2008, served as the House GOP caucus secretary in the 2019-20 session.

Spray paint on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's door in Kentucky on Saturday read, “WERES MY MONEY.” “MITCH KILLS THE POOR" was scrawled over a window.

Trump’s refusal to accept his election defeat and the effort to subvert the will of the voters has become a defining moment for Republicans and is tearing the party apart.

Georgia will decide which party controls the Senate and how far Biden can reach legislatively on issues like the pandemic, health care, taxation, energy and the environment.

Senate Republicans rejected their own president's veto on New Year's Day, and the National Defense Authorization Act is set to take effect despite Trump's efforts.

New Jersey was the last state in the nation to use the term, which dates back to a time before the Revolutionary War.

“There is nothing political with me whatsoever,” said one restaurant owner in the Philadelphia suburbs. “I’m just trying to survive.”

After more than four years of Brexit political drama, the day itself is something of an anticlimax.

Dick Thornburgh died Thursday morning at a retirement community facility outside Pittsburgh. The cause is not yet known.

N.J. bars face penalties of up to 66-day liquor-license suspensions for ignoring COVID restrictions.

The Census Bureau plans to deliver a population count of each state in early 2021, as close to the missed deadline as possible.