OPINION: Congress needs authority to pick a new Government Accountability Office chief — or the president could launch a ...

Congress is dying in real time. By Jamelle Bouie Michelle Cottle and David French Produced by Vishakha Darbha The legislative branch of the government is in crisis. The shutdown is entering a second ...

What ever happened to Congress? In recent weeks, the United States has seen an undeclared war in the Caribbean, military deployments to American cities, a government shutdown, and President Trump’s ...

Democrats have successfully framed what is now the second-longest government shutdown in U.S. history around the issue of health care. Some three weeks in, it remains solid ground for the party, and ...

We explain what elected officials aren’t doing during the government shutdown. By Carl Hulse I’m The Times’s chief Washington correspondent. By almost any measure, Congress is failing. And flailing.

The government shutdown has already lasted more than a week, and there aren't many indications of when it might end. As the effects of the shutdown become more real, and certain government employees ...

Members of Congress have a Constitutional obligation to regularly conduct investigations and oversight to ensure that laws are being faithfully executed, tax dollars are being spent responsibly, and ...