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The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that he believed the role of women in the military had expanded so broadly in recent years that they should be [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Representative Xavier Becerra, Democrat of California, had loaded the question for precise effect. ''How many people here can say they are immigrants, the child of immigrants or [...]

WASHINGTON -- Potentially giving congressional Republicans new ammunition in their crusade against the Internal Revenue Service, the agency on Thursday said that annual unpaid taxes had increased to nearly half [...]

WASHINGTON -- The first appropriations bill taken up this year by the Senate -- in what was supposed to a be a new spirit of bipartisan cooperation on financing the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senate negotiators on Tuesday moved closer to an agreement to provide at least $1.1 billion in emergency financing to combat the rapidly spreading Zika virus, which public health [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senator Mitch McConnell has a ready comeback for Democrats who keep chanting ''do your job'' in hopes of pressuring Republicans to consider President Obama's Supreme Court nominee. It [...]

WASHINGTON -- Some 400,000 retirees who worked in the trucking, parcel delivery and grocery supply industries face drastic pension cuts on July 1 as a result of a little-noticed measure [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- It was a balance-of-power breakfast. Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, played host to Judge Merrick [...]

WASHINGTON -- It was a balance-of-power breakfast. Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, hosted Judge Merrick B. Garland, President Obama's nominee for [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN MIAMI -- Representative Patrick Murphy, a two-term Democrat now running for United States Senate, looked exultant, maybe even a bit star-struck, as he greeted patrons and [...]

MIAMI -- Representative Patrick Murphy, a two-term Democrat now running for United States Senate, looked exultant, maybe even a bit star-struck, as he greeted patrons and posed for selfies with [...]

The Justice Department has appointed Kenneth R. Feinberg, the lawyer who administered compensation for victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, as special master to oversee a new fund to compensate [...]

PEWAUKEE, Wis. -- Senator Ron Johnson, a Tea Party conservative up for re-election in a swing state, looked out at a crowd of supporters and reassured them that he and [...]

WASHINGTON -- The fight over the vacancy on the Supreme Court shifted from close combat in the halls of Congress to a nationwide battle on Friday as senators returned to [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats enthusiastically embraced Judge Merrick B. Garland on Thursday in his first visit to the Capitol as a Supreme Court nominee, but Republican leaders, brushing aside stirrings [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, insisted on Wednesday that Judge Merrick B. Garland, President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, would not get a confirmation vote -- [...]

WASHINGTON -- Paul D. Ryan made his name as a master of budgets, putting forward sweeping documents that epitomized the Republican Party's preference for slashing taxes, curtailing spending and shrinking [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- If there were any doubt, Senator Harry Reid clearly has one last, good fight in him. Instead of cruising to retirement after securing a [...]

WASHINGTON -- If there were any doubt, Senator Harry Reid clearly has one last, good fight in him. Instead of cruising to retirement after securing a two-year budget deal last [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Senators on the Judiciary Committee clashed openly on Thursday over filling a Supreme Court vacancy in an election year, with Republicans insisting that they [...]

WASHINGTON -- As Senate Republicans on Thursday defended their refusal to consider any Supreme Court nomination put forward by President Obama, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina warned that both [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Senate gave final approval on Tuesday to legislation aimed at smoothing the presidential transition process by directing federal agencies to begin high-level preparations six months before the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Democrats on Thursday unleashed a furious assault on Senator Charles E. Grassley, the Iowa Republican and Judiciary Committee chairman who has become the face of his party's refusal [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama is vetting Jane L. Kelly, a federal appellate judge in Iowa, as a potential nominee for the Supreme Court, weighing a selection that could pose an [...]

WASHINGTON -- The two Republican senators sat together on one couch, while the Democratic senators sat a few feet away on another, but the gap between them in Tuesday's meeting [...]

Byline: JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- From the White House to the Capitol to the campaign trail, the entire Democratic power structure has mobilized to break [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans, facing fierce criticism from Democrats on Capitol Hill, insisted Thursday that they would face no political retribution from their decision to shun any Supreme Court nomination [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Senate Republican leaders have said that there will be no confirmation hearings, no vote, not even a courtesy meeting with President Obama's nominee to [...]

WASHINGTON -- From the White House to the Capitol to the campaign trail, the entire Democratic power structure on Wednesday mobilized to break through Republican opposition and clear a path [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- The Senate will not confirm any Supreme Court nominee put forward by President Obama before the November election, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republican leaders said Tuesday that there would be no confirmation hearings, no vote, not even a courtesy meeting with President Obama's nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans on Monday seized on a 1992 speech by Joseph R. Biden Jr., then a senator, in which he argued against any Supreme Court appointment during a [...]

Washington is gripped by partisan divisions, but there is overwhelming agreement on at least one important issue: The United States is long overdue for the sort of sweeping, once-in-a-generation tax [...]

DEWITT, Iowa -- Jim Dougherty sat in the last row of a crowded hearing room at City Hall here on Wednesday night, hands folded in his lap and a look [...]

WASHINGTON -- Yulia V. Tymoshenko, a former prime minister of Ukraine who now leads a minority party in Parliament, said on Friday that she and her allies would staunchly oppose [...]

WASHINGTON -- On Christmas Eve in 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was awake before dawn to personally monitor a critical moment in the nation's history. But Mrs. Clinton, the [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama held a rare meeting Tuesday with the top Republicans in Congress to assess opportunities for compromise during his final year in office, even as the two [...]

BALTIMORE -- When President Obama addressed the annual retreat for House Democratic lawmakers in 2009, the event had the buoyant exuberance of a pep rally as he urged his party's [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and majority leader, has set the stage for debate on a bill that would give President Obama broad authority to use military [...]

WASHINGTON -- For most observers, the main issue raised in the Supreme Court case Bank Markazi v. Deborah Peterson was whether victims of some of the bloodiest terrorist attacks of [...]

BALTIMORE -- Republican congressional leaders said Friday that they were moving aggressively to draw up a campaign platform for 2016 so that the party would be positioned to coalesce swiftly [...]

The Obama administration is turning to the United Nations to help screen migrants fleeing violence in Central America, senior administration officials said Tuesday, and to help set up processing centers [...]

WASHINGTON -- Before President Obama had uttered the first word of his final State of the Union address, the talk in the hallways of the Capitol was about who might [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- After spending 444 days in captivity, and more than 30 years seeking restitution, the Americans taken hostage at the United States Embassy in Tehran [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWASHINGTON -- After spending 444 days in captivity, and more than 30 years seeking restitution, the Americans taken hostage at the United States Embassy in Tehran in 1979 have [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and JOHN SCHWARTZ WASHINGTON -- In a flurry of year-end legislative activity, the Senate last week approved a bill to overhaul the United States' chemical safety [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWASHINGTON -- In a flurry of year-end legislative activity, the Senate last week approved a bill to overhaul the nation's chemical safety system, and a separate measure to ban [...]

Byline: DAVID M. HERSZENHORN WASHINGTON -- Congress on Friday overwhelmingly gave final approval to a sweeping, year-end fiscal package that includes a $1.15 trillion spending measure as well as $620 [...]

WASHINGTON -- After years of dysfunction and abysmal public approval ratings, a chastened, even beaten-down Congress on Friday passed a $1.8 trillion package of spending and tax cuts with remarkably [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWASHINGTON -- Speaker Paul D. Ryan expressed annoyance on Thursday at the $1.1 trillion year-end spending bill now on the House floor. ''You know I don't like this process, [...]