In his early days in Congress, Markwayne Mullin tried pairing his suit jacket and tie with a pair of jeans on the House floor. Then-House Speaker John Boehner reprimanded the young Republican for ...

As Democrats squawk over Trump's threatening the Gordie Howe Bridge, the Free Press looks at who's gotten backing from the ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. It is obviously “war” when two countries attack a third, kill its leader and try to ...

One of the most important priorities for our representatives in the House and Senate is fairly straightforward. They are elected to deliver federal dollars to their districts and states through ...

The veteran Ohio lawmaker has a long record of taking on party leaders but has rarely broken with Donald Trump.

This week's great debate over the fate of the Bush-era tax cuts is doing something more important than determining tax levels for a couple of years: It's helping set the table for a fundamental reform ...

The Democratic National Committee is launching an ad campaign in politically key states aimed at rallying the public behind President Barack Obama's new jobs plan and pressuring ...

Dayton, is a member of the “$50 million club” in the U.S. House of Representatives — a congressman whose embrace of locally focused spending has helped congressional earmarks return with a vengeance.

Only three months into 2026, the nomination of a new Bureau of Land Management (BLM) director and the repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Diehl during his time in the Missouri House of Representatives (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications). Federal ...

The late Rev. Jesse Jackson will not lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, after a request for the commemoration was denied by the House Speaker Mike Johnson's office due to past precedent.

Rep. Jan Jones, the longest-serving Speaker Pro Tempore in U.S. history, is retiring after over two decades in the Georgia House. A trailblazer for women in Georgia politics, she served as the state's ...