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Republicans in the House have unveiled legislation extending the 2017 individual and corporate rate cuts through 2032 while ...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) expressed support Wednesday for banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks, while noting the counterarguments on financial difficulties that members face.
But this year Congress has taken its constitutional authority over the District to new and unfamiliar places, departing from years of norms in how it has allowed D.C. to spend its own locally ...
Pretty much on a daily basis now, I find myself muttering or shouting, “If only Congress wasn’t broken,” or something to that effect. I’m happy to acknowledge that our problems have many ...
WASHINGTON – House Speaker Mike Johnson said he's personally in favor of a ban on congressional stock trading, even as he said he has "sympathy" for lawmakers who argue the practice should continue.
The Library of Congress, a 225-year-old Washington institution, has never had a moment like this. A week ago, the Trump administration fired the longtime librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden.
In a letter to acting OPM Director Charles Ezell, a group of congressional Democrats led by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., said the administration’s plan threatens to ...
In a rare bipartisan effort to defend its institutional authority, Congress is quietly resisting President Donald Trump’s attempt to assert control over the Library of Congress — a move that ...
WSJ explains. Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP WASHINGTON—The Library of Congress—long a sleepy, noncontroversial staple of the nation’s capital—has become the latest battleground in President ...