If lawmakers fail to reach an agreement, federal government funding will run out on Dec. 20. Virginia's two senators, Tim ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about his new book, The ABCs of Democracy, and what's ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said he's all for President-elect Donald Trump's proposed plan to shut down the U.S. Department of ...

The PRESS Act, which would protect journalists from government spying, enjoys broad bipartisan support and has passed the ...

Trump wants to not just shake up but eliminate the federal education bureaucracy and send it back to the states. Students ...

The success of the G.O.P. push to keep the majority suggests that it paid no political price for the chaos and paralysis of ...