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We spoke with Julie Hirschfeld Davis, the congressional editor at The Times, about the latest maneuvering and drama in Washington. In the expectations game that is American politics, losing is [...]

When the Supreme Court hears arguments on Tuesday, the administration's attempts to end the program protecting ''Dreamers'' could rest on a top aide's actions in 2017. WASHINGTON -- When Attorney [...]

Byline: Michael D. Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis WASHINGTON - The Oval Office meeting this past March began, as so many had, with President Trump fuming about migrants. But this [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Oval Office meeting this past March began, as so many had, with President Trump fuming about migrants. But this time he had a solution. As White House [...]

Byline: Emily Cochrane and Julie Hirschfeld Davis WASHINGTON - A succession of Republican retirements from Congress, including two announcements this week, is the latest sign of a sour mood in [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Bob Dylan's nasally voice singing of changing times blasted from the speakers and Democratic activists crowded the patio of a craft-beer emporium on Friday as Megan and [...]

WASHINGTON -- A succession of Republican retirements from Congress, including two announcements this week, is the latest sign of a sour mood in the party about its chances to win [...]

WASHINGTON -- The White House is considering a plan that would keep most refugees who are fleeing war, persecution and famine out of the United States, significantly cutting back a [...]

Byline: Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Emily Cochrane HOWELL, Mich. - The message printed on a pair of handmade wood-and-cardboard placards could not have been clearer as Representative Elissa Slotkin gazed [...]

HOWELL, Mich. -- The message printed on a pair of handmade wood-and-cardboard placards could not have been clearer as Representative Elissa Slotkin gazed out on a crowd of about 300 [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House Judiciary Committee on Monday subpoenaed the former top White House aide Rob Porter to testify about President Trump's efforts to impede the Russia investigation and asked [...]

WASHINGTON -- Representative Sean P. Duffy, Republican of Wisconsin and one of the most recognizable faces of the Tea Party wave of 2010, announced Monday that he planned to resign [...]

Byline: Julie Hirschfeld Davis WASHINGTON - When President Trump said this week that American Jews who chose to vote for Democrats were being disloyal, he was flirting with a notion [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump said on Tuesday that any Jewish person who votes for a Democrat is guilty of ignorance or ''great disloyalty,'' intensifying his efforts to drive in a [...]

WASHINGTON -- Imagine being swept out of power in Congress and relegated to the role of spectator and naysayer as your political opponents dictate the terms of legislative debate. Add [...]

WASHINGTON -- Weeks after Democrats assumed control of the House with the most diverse class ever, the leaders of their campaign arm invited more than a dozen top political consultants [...]

WASHINGTON -- On their 100th day in power, they squabbled about spending as President Trump assailed one of the first Muslims in Congress with a video of the Sept. 11 [...]

WASHINGTON -- Robert S. Mueller III's long-awaited testimony has inflamed divisions among Democrats over impeachment, with some senior lawmakers pushing on Thursday to begin formal impeachment hearings soon, and vulnerable [...]

WASHINGTON -- Nervous Republicans, from senior members of Congress to his own daughter Ivanka, urged President Trump on Thursday to repudiate the ''send her back'' chant directed at a Somali-born [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House on Wednesday killed an attempt to impeach President Trump for statements that the chamber condemned this week as racist, turning aside an accusation that he had [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House voted on Tuesday to condemn as racist President Trump's attacks against four congresswomen of color, but only after the debate over the president's language devolved into [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump, under fire for comments that even members of his own party called racist, amplified his attacks on four Democratic congresswomen of color on Monday, saying that [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House on Friday approved legislation to replenish a depleted federal fund to compensate emergency workers and others who became ill as a result of their work in [...]

WASHINGTON -- The results are in from the first big test of the Republican Party's efforts to recruit and elect more women to Congress this election cycle -- and rebuild [...]

WASHINGTON -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi said they have no following in Congress. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York shot back that she and three of her fellow liberal freshmen, darlings [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDNEW BERN, N.C. -- On a sultry summer morning, Diane McKillop stood in her driveway gushing over Dr. Joan Perry, the Republican congressional candidate who showed up at her [...]

WASHINGTON -- For all the talk of a Tea Party of the left, the true power in the House revealed its face last week -- the Mighty Moderates. The failure [...]

WASHINGTON -- Congress sent President Trump a $4.6 billion humanitarian aid package on Thursday after Speaker Nancy Pelosi capitulated to Republicans and Democratic moderates and dropped her insistence on stronger [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday approved $4.6 billion in emergency humanitarian aid for the southwestern border, rejecting House legislation approved on Tuesday that sought to rein in President Trump's [...]

WASHINGTON -- A photograph of a migrant father and his 23-month-old daughter lying face down on the muddy bank of the Rio Grande added an emotional charge on Wednesday to [...]

WASHINGTON -- A divided House voted on Tuesday to send $4.5 billion in humanitarian aid to the border to address horrific conditions facing a crush of migrants, attaching significant rules [...]

WASHINGTON -- Congress is trying to rush $4.5 billion in emergency humanitarian aid to the southwestern border while placing new restrictions on President Trump's immigration crackdown, spurred on by disturbing [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump's decision to pull back on a planned military strike against Iran has divided Republicans, pitting hawks who criticized his midoperation retreat against a noninterventionist wing that [...]

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday ruled out censuring President Trump as an alternative to starting an impeachment proceeding against him, and said that if Democrats conclude he [...]

WASHINGTON -- The White House clashed Wednesday with Democratic congressional leaders over the terms of a broad spending agreement to head off deep cuts across the government and a default [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump said on Tuesday that he and President Xi Jinping of China had spoken by phone and would have an ''extended'' meeting at the Group of 20 [...]

WASHINGTON -- Representative Katie Porter, a law professor who narrowly flipped part of Republicans' Southern California stronghold to the Democrats in last year's midterm elections, said on Monday that she [...]

Byline: Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Charlie Savage WASHINGTON - A House committee voted on Wednesday to recommend that two cabinet secretaries be held in contempt of Congress, hours after President [...]

WASHINGTON -- A House committee voted on Wednesday to recommend that two cabinet secretaries be held in contempt of Congress, hours after President Trump invoked executive privilege to block disclosure [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Democrat-led House passed legislation on Tuesday to grant a path to citizenship to about 2.5 million immigrants whose legal protections President Trump has moved to end, advancing [...]

WASHINGTON -- A pair of measures to reopen the government -- one with President Trump's border wall, the other without it -- failed in the Senate on Thursday, sending lawmakers [...]

Late Wednesday night, President Trump said he would deliver his State of the Union speech when the shutdown is over. Read the updated story here.WASHINGTON -- President Trump said he [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Senate will hold competing votes on Thursday on President Trump's proposal to spend $5.7 billion on a border wall and on a Democratic bill that would fund [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Senate is poised as early as Tuesday to act on a Trump-backed measure to end the partial government shutdown, but a bill promoted as a compromise to [...]

WASHINGTON -- Immigrant advocates denounced it as cruel. The conservative right howled that it was amnesty.What President Trump billed on Saturday as a compromise to end the country's longest government [...]

WASHINGTON -- House Democrats have added more than $1 billion in border-related spending to a package of funding bills that would reopen most of the government, even as President Trump [...]

WASHINGTON -- A bus emblazoned with the United States Air Force logo was idling outside the Capitol on Thursday, members of Congress on board, ready to depart for Joint Base [...]

WASHINGTON -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi pressed her case on Thursday for postponing President Trump's State of the Union address during the prolonged partial government shutdown, even as House Democrats privately [...]

WASHINGTON -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked President Trump on Wednesday to scrap or delay his Jan. 29 State of the Union address amid the partial government shutdown, an extraordinary request [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration said Tuesday that it would summon tens of thousands of federal employees back to work without pay to get the government running amid a partial [...]