S.C., made history on Friday when the new 119th Congress was sworn in, becoming the longest-serving Black U.S. senator.

Congress begins a new session Friday with Republicans now leading both chambers. The House will need to elect a speaker ...

Dave McCormick will take the oath Friday as Pennsylvania’s junior senator, bringing a new voice to Washington and giving ...

Neither Trump nor his health secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drink, yet neither raced to endorse the surgeon ...

Johnson, of Louisiana, has been working diligently to prevent defeat, spending New Year’s Day at Mar-a-Lago as he positions ...

Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday was still grasping for the votes he needs to be re-elected hours before a vote on the House ...

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Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., was reelected House Speaker on Jan. 3., receiving the bare minimum, 218 votes. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., was selected by his Republican colleagues as the Senate’s new majority ...

The US has opened the 119th Congress with a vote for the speakership in its lower chamber, the House of Representatives.

As the 119th Congress kicks off Friday, some new members enter office with more prominent resumes in the politics or business ...

California began confronting a very different, unpredictable Washington Friday, as a Republican-controlled Congress ...

After four unsuccessful years trying to identify the person who placed two viable pipe bombs near the Republican and ...