Nearly all Americans agree that Congress has become a sad joke — a blight of irritating gnats. How exciting, then, that a consultant to top Republican lawmakers has figured out how to make Congress ...

Independent’ agencies are politically corrosive, and the Supreme Court can reverse its 1935 error in Humphrey’s Executor.

Two former U.S. lawmakers, two distinct parties — yet one call for unity. For the fourth time in a dozen years, the federal government is shut down after Congress failed to approve a budget by an Oct.

WASHINGTON — The outlines of a potential government funding solution is taking shape. Congressional leaders are discussing a plan that would avert a government shutdown by extending federal funding, ...

WASHINGTON – Democrats have no idea how long the day-old government shutdown will last. Talk to Republicans, they say. Ask Republicans, and they point the finger back at Democrats. They're the ones, ...

Congress is investigating reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a second strike on survivors of a drug-boat attack, putting the legality of the recent U.S. military campaign under ...