A group of Texas House Democrats who fled their state in a bid to stop restrictive voting legislation met with Democratic US Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Jeff Merkley and, Raphael Warnock on Wednesday as they press Congress to pass federal voting rights legislation.
The House select committee investigating the US Capitol riot will hold its first hearing on July 27 to hear directly from law enforcement officers and others who responded to the attack, and potential witnesses have been asked for their availability and told to save the date.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and a group of other Senate Democrats introduced draft legislation on Wednesday that would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level by striking it from the federal controlled substances list.
President Joe Biden will travel to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to meet with Senate Democrats during their luncheon and will continue to make the case for both the bipartisan infrastructure proposal and a more sweeping package that can be pursued through reconciliation.
One hundred and thirty-five years after the Statue of Liberty was formally unveiled in New York Harbor, her "little sister" has taken up residence in front of the French ambassador's home in Washington, DC.
Congressional Democrats plan to use their multi-trillion-dollar spending proposal to achieve their longstanding goals of broadening Medicare benefits for seniors.
Civil rights attorney Lee Merritt announced Tuesday that he's running as Democrat for Texas attorney general, joining a competitive state race to take on Republican incumbent Ken Paxton.
President Joe Biden took office vowing to chart a different course on immigration than his predecessor.
The National Republican Congressional Committee announced Wednesday that it had raised $45.4 million in the second quarter of 2021, the most it has ever raised in three months of a non-election year, as Republicans seek to take over the House in 2022.
Rep. Liz Cheney has a strong admonition for House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy: any Republican still challenging the legitimacy of the 2020 election results or whitewashing the January 6 insurrection is not fit to serve on the select committee investigating it.
