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WASHINGTON -- As a crucial series of gun-control votes approaches in the Senate, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are suddenly preoccupied with one question in particular: when is Frank Lautenberg coming [...]

WASHINGTON -- New York, New Jersey and Connecticut face steep reductions in federal aid for education, childhood vaccinations, military operations, environmental protection and other programs if President Obama and Congress [...]

WASHINGTON -- Congress gave final approval on Monday to an emergency aid package of nearly $51 billion to help millions of victims of Hurricane Sandy, ending the legislation's long and [...]

WASHINGTON -- After fierce lobbying by political leaders in states across the Northeast, the House of Representatives on Tuesday night approved a long-awaited $50.7 billion emergency bill to provide help [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House will move ahead this week with a multibillion-dollar package to provide aid to victims of Hurricane Sandy, but the legislation is already caught in an escalating [...]

A bill to provide tens of billions of dollars in federal aid to states pummeled by Hurricane Sandy was in danger of dying Tuesday night as the House seemed headed [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Senate approved $60.4 billion in emergency spending on Friday to pay for recovery efforts in states ravaged by Hurricane Sandy, at one point fending off a Republican [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten E. Gillibrand of New York called on Wednesday for up to $1 billion in federal aid to repair and fortify at least [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED WASHINGTON -- As Democrats try to orchestrate a state-by-state drive to retake control of the House of Representatives, an unexpected hurdle has arisen in New York, an overwhelmingly [...]

The death on Tuesday of Representative Donald M. Payne of New Jersey, a significant force in Newark politics for decades, could set off a major battle for his seat. Mr. [...]

Not long after winning a big upset in September in a special election for Congress, Bob Turner flew hundreds of miles away from his New York City district to a [...]

The special master of a fund created to compensate people who became sick after being exposed to the toxic cloud from ground zero has announced that the fund will enlarge [...]

Even as top Democrats intensified pressure on him to resign, Representative Anthony D. Weiner of New York tried to power through the day on Thursday and suggest things were getting [...]

National Republicans and their allies in business are making a furious last-minute push to save a once reliably Republican House seat in western New York, as their candidate's comfortable lead [...]

WASHINGTON -- Days after formally announcing his candidacy for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, Newt Gingrich on Sunday sharply criticized a plan by House Republicans that would drastically overhaul Medicare, [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department is nearing the appointment of a special master to administer a multibillion-dollar fund created to provide financial compensation for rescue workers and others who became [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Representative Timothy H. Bishop of eastern Long Island reached out to a top colonel in the Army Corps of Engineers a few weeks ago seeking help on something [...]

WASHINGTON -- After years of fierce lobbying and debate, Congress approved a bill on Wednesday to cover the cost of medical care for rescue workers and others who became sick [...]

WASHINGTON -- Republican senators blocked Democratic legislation on Thursday that sought to provide medical care to rescue workers and others who became ill as a result of breathing in toxic [...]

Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York and the Republican seeking to unseat him, Jay Townsend, sparred over health care, federal spending and Wall Street on Sunday in a debate [...]

Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand of New York and the Republican seeking to unseat her, Joseph J. DioGuardi, questioned each other's integrity in a debate on Friday filled with sharp exchanges. [...]

The House approved legislation on Wednesday that would provide billions of dollars for medical treatment to rescue workers and residents of New York City who suffered illnesses from breathing in [...]

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic plan to provide billions of dollars for medical treatment to rescue workers and residents of New York City who suffered illnesses [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, a leader of Congressional efforts to crack down on Wall Street abuses, announced abruptly on Friday that he was canceling a planned [...]

Senator Charles E. Schumer apologized on Wednesday for using a crude term to refer to a flight attendant who had asked him to turn his cellphone off on a US [...]

At least two apartments in Queens were raided on Monday after they had been visited in the last week by a suspected associate of Al Qaeda, according to officials. No […]

Representative Charles B. Rangel's legal team is reviewing his tax records to determine whether the congressman received a homestead exemption on a house he owned in Washington while living in […]

In many ways, Vornado Realty Trust, the Kimco Realty Corporation and Apollo Real Estate Advisers represent the real estate vanguard of the new Harlem. Vornado is building an office tower […]

SENATOR CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, the Connecticut Democrat who spent months on the presidential campaign trail earlier this year, may be forgiven for getting a little exasperated when people welcome him […]

A day after abandoning his proposal to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, Gov. Eliot Spitzer won the kind of wide acclaim from elected officials that he could not win […]

House Republicans have begun to push bills opposing the plan of Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York to grant driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, seeking to step up the pressure […]

Democratic members of Congress, having watched Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton stumble on the question of whether states should give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, are growing increasingly agitated over Gov. […]

With a vote scheduled for Thursday, Democrats and their allies are hitting the airwaves, staging rallies and making a blizzard of phone calls as they try to pressure Republican House […]

When he was last running for the United States Senate from New Jersey in 2002, Robert G. Torricelli collected donations from thousands of people who apparently wanted to see him […]

June was a busy month for Senator Charles E. Schumer. On the phone, at large parties and small gatherings around the nation, he raised more than $1 million from the […]

If the Democratic ascendance on Capitol Hill was supposed to usher in dark days for Republicans, it is hard to tell from talking to moderate ones like Mike Ferguson, who […]

In their efforts to keep their party in power, Republican leaders have not hesitated to hit the Democrats hard when it comes to the issue of protecting children. The strategy […]

The House voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to renew expiring provisions of the Voting Rights Act after supporters of it defeated challenges mounted by conservative opponents. The 390-to-33 vote on the […]

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed a series of measures on Tuesday to cut the nation's consumption of foreign oil in half by 2025, including encouraging the development of alternative forms […]

The Senate on Friday passed legislation that would extend a program that required the federal government to cover insurance losses in cases involving catastrophic terrorist attacks. President Bush and Congress […]

The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency told a Senate panel on Thursday that the agency would seek new bids on $400 million worth of contracts that had originally […]

Democrats and Republicans on Monday began a fierce attack on Gov. George E. Pataki's decision to veto a bill that would make the so-called morning-after pill available without a prescription […]

Gov. George E. Pataki's aides said last night that he would veto a bill to make the so-called morning-after pill available without a prescription, prompting outrage among abortion-rights advocates. Kevin […]

A highway and mass transportation bill set to be approved by Congress contains $16.5 billion for New York over the next five years, according to Senators Charles E. Schumer and […]

Elected officials, private insurers, builders and real estate companies across the country are mounting a broad campaign to urge Congress to extend a program that requires the federal government to […]

Seeking to mobilize her political base as her re-election effort approaches, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has been invoking the recent battle between Democrats and Republicans over President Bush's judicial nominees. […]

The host committees for the Republican and Democratic conventions this year will draw almost $104 million in private contributions, 12 times what they did a dozen years ago, according to […]

Welfare programs around the country are in limbo because of a stalemate in Congress that has prompted state officials to postpone new investments in child care, expansions of job training […]

An American Indian group's efforts to open a casino in Connecticut's largest city were stopped in their tracks on Monday when the Bureau of Indian Affairs rejected the group's application […]