Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., was reelected House speaker on Jan. 3., receiving the bare minimum, 218 votes. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., was selected by his Republican colleagues as the Senate’s new majority ...

Scuba instructors, movie producers and a lot of 30-somethings are set to join the 119th Congress. A few fun facts about ...

North Carolina will celebrate the arrival of its 76th governor on Jan. 11, when Josh Stein takes a ceremonial oath of office ...

U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar’s Bipartisan Legislation to Designate the Bald Eagle as the National Bird is Signed into Law ...

Montana officials on Sunday memorialized the death of former President Jimmy Carter, the longest-lived American president who ...

An Islamic State–inspired U.S. Army veteran killed 15 people when he drove a pickup through New Orleans’s crowded Bourbon ...

With the passage of our legislation, the bald eagle will now officially be recognized as our nation’s national bird,” she added. The bald eagle was adopted as the Coat of A ...

North Carolina's latest Democratic governor was sworn into office on Wednesday, as Josh Stein succeeded Roy Cooper in a top elected position for the second time in eight years.

Mike Johnson is in a better position now than Kevin McCarthy was two years ago, Eric Garcia writes. But he still has to navigate the Rubik’s Cube that is the House Republican conference. And Trump is ...

Sen. John Thune used his first few minutes of floor time to make a commitment to defend the filibuster rule, which requires at least 60 votes to pass Senate legislation.

The Michigan Democrat was sworn in on Friday, nearly two months after being elected to the Senate over Republican Mike Rogers.

Adam Schiff’s swearing-in as California’s U.S. Senator for a full six-year term on Friday set a U.S. record. The Democrat ...