Senate appropriators approved a fiscal 2026 Legislative Branch bill that would boost spending for Congress while avoiding cuts to the GAO.

The chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee is clinging to bipartisanship on Capitol Hill. No one at the White ...

Congress will decide whether funding is set by spending bills, or by temporary funding measures, quick fixes, surgical ...

A drama-filled week in DC saw Democrats accuse Republicans ceding Congress' power to Trump and a curveball involving Jeffrey ...

In many ways, this is a triumph of the legislative branch of government, reasserting the role of Congress in levying tariffs and establishing limits on the executive branch.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) vowed that President Trump’s threats to primary him will “backfire tremendously” and ultimately ...

A bulk transfer of some Montanans’ private information from the state judiciary to the legislative branch’s audit division ...

A Republican Congress in thrall to or in fear of Trump may not intend to create a lasting precedent in which the spending power, Congress’s last redoubt of priority-setting authority, fades away.

My predecessor in Iowa’s Third Congressional District was known as “a watchdog to the Treasury.” During 13 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Harold Royce (H.R.) Gross kept a ...

Columnist Gail Symons writes: "It’s no secret the Secretary of State has turned his feud with the Governor into a personal ...