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Byline: Emmarie Huetteman Democrats are favored to win both chambers of Congress after years of campaign-trail promises about health care. But with a pandemic, a more conservative Supreme Court and [...]

Byline: Emmarie Huetteman, Kaiser Health News As teacher strikes flared this spring in more than half a dozen states, protesters bemoaned stagnant salaries, overcrowded classrooms and a lack of basic [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House approved on Thursday a bundle of spending bills, including $1.57 billion that President Trump requested to build a wall along the Mexican border, which could serve [...]

WASHINGTON -- It was men who started it. It may be women who finished it. The Senate effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, a process that began with 13 [...]

WASHINGTON -- Haven't seen it. Couldn't tell you. Ask my office. Congressional Republicans, well practiced by now in the craft of protecting an administration stalked by scandal, generally retreated to [...]

SHELBY, N.C. -- For all of the congressional hearings and cable coverage they have spawned, the government investigations into Russian interference in last year's election do not readily come up [...]

Byline: EMMARIE HUETTEMAN SHELBY, N.C. -- For all of the congressional hearings and cable coverage they have spawned, the government investigations into Russian interference in last year's election do not [...]

WASHINGTON -- Somewhere on the road between here and Pennsylvania, the idea began to take root for Chrissy Houlahan: ''I can't not run.'' The daughter and granddaughter of Navy pilots, [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House on Thursday voted to crack down on undocumented immigrants and localities that shelter them, approving two bills President Trump has championed but that are certain to [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration feared that acknowledging Russian meddling in the 2016 election would reveal too much about intelligence gathering and be interpreted as ''taking sides'' in the race, [...]

WASHINGTON -- It was an attack on politicians in the least political of venues: a baseball field. The shooting Wednesday that shattered the humid peace of an early-morning practice and [...]

Attorney General Jeff Sessions engaged in highly contentious testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, with Democrats pressing him on his conversations with President Trump related to the investigation [...]

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions agreed on Monday to testify publicly before the Senate Intelligence Committee about his connections to an investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWASHINGTON -- A day after Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he would testify this week before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Democratic senators on Sunday urged the panel to question [...]

WASHINGTON -- James B. Comey, the recently fired F.B.I. director, said Thursday in an extraordinary Senate hearing that he believed President Trump had tried to derail an investigation into his [...]

Four top national security officials testified on Capitol Hill on Wednesday amid a swirl of developments in the Trump administration. The officials were pressed repeatedly about whether President Trump had [...]

WASHINGTON -- Two top intelligence officials refused to answer senators' questions on Wednesday about whether President Trump had asked them to intervene in the F.B.I. investigation into Russian election interference, [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee was strongly criticized on Thursday by the panel's ranking Democrat for refusing to give up his subpoena power over the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Michael D. Cohen, President Trump's personal lawyer, said on Tuesday that he was refusing to cooperate with House and Senate intelligence committee investigations into Russian election meddling. The [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House Intelligence Committee will issue subpoenas to Michael T. Flynn, President Trump's first national security adviser, the committee's senior Democrat said on Wednesday, escalating Mr. Flynn's troubles [...]

WASHINGTON -- Republicans on Sunday inched away from President Trump amid mounting evidence that he may have sought to interfere in the federal investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 [...]

WASHINGTON -- James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, will testify publicly about his role in the investigation into Russian meddling in the election and any possible connections to the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Republican senators signaled on Thursday that the Justice Department's special counsel investigation into Russia's interference in the presidential election and possible collusion by associates of President Trump would [...]

WASHINGTON -- Did you hear the one about the Russians paying off the future president of the United States? It seems House Republicans have. Their two highest-ranking members on Wednesday [...]

WASHINGTON -- Members of Congress from both parties escalated calls on Tuesday for former F.B.I. director James B. Comey to appear before them after reports that President Trump had asked [...]

WILLINGBORO, N.J. -- It took a moderate Republican from New Jersey to wrestle a compromise out of his party's hard-right naysayers and resuscitate the House health care plan. And for [...]

WASHINGTON -- Less than a week into the Trump administration, Sally Q. Yates, the acting attorney general, hurried to the White House with an urgent concern. The president's national security [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House's investigation into Russian meddling in the election lurched back to life on Thursday, as a closed-door hearing with James B. Comey, director of the F.B.I., and [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a bipartisan $1.1 trillion spending agreement to fund the government through September, clearing a key procedural hurdle to avert a shutdown [...]

MIDLAND, Tex. -- President Trump does not know Mike Conaway. A Republican congressman from a long brush stroke of West Texas, Mr. Conaway recalled meeting with him at the White [...]

Byline: EMMARIE HUETTEMAN MIDLAND, Tex. -- President Trump does not know Mike Conaway. A Republican congressman from a long brush stroke of West Texas, Mr. Conaway recalled meeting with him [...]

WASHINGTON -- The continuing fallout from President Trump's unsubstantiated wiretapping allegation cost him another ally on Thursday, as the embattled Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee announced he would [...]

WASHINGTON -- It was a mystery that gripped Washington for the better part of two weeks, filled with clandestine meetings at the White House, classified intelligence documents and confidential sources. [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senator Marco Rubio said Thursday during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia that his own presidential campaign had been a target of apparent Russian cyberattacks, and a [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senators leading the investigation into Russian interference in the November election pledged on Wednesday to conduct an aggressive inquiry, including an examination of any ties to President Trump, [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee rebuffed calls on Tuesday to recuse himself from the panel's investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential election, as Democrats [...]

WASHINGTON -- Top House Democrats on Monday called on the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee to recuse himself from the panel's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 [...]

WASHINGTON -- Even on Fox News, Representative Devin Nunes, the beleaguered Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, could not escape the venom from his left. Mr. Nunes, the California [...]

WASHINGTON -- Paul Manafort, who served as President Trump's campaign manager and is under scrutiny for his ties to Russia, will testify before the House Intelligence Committee, the panel's chairman [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Republican chairman of the House committee investigating Russian interference in the election apologized in a private meeting on Thursday for not sharing intelligence with the panel's top [...]

* President Trump plans to meet Thursday at 5 p.m. with moderate House Republicans in the Tuesday Group, a group of moderate Republicans. * House Republicans will meet at 7 [...]

WASHINGTON -- Representative Devin Nunes, the California Republican who is chairman of a House panel investigating Russian interference in the presidential election, may have dealt his own inquiry a fatal [...]

WASHINGTON -- For weeks, President Trump has insisted that President Barack Obama tapped his phones even as the F.B.I. director and members of Mr. Trump's own party said there was [...]

Byline: MATTHEW ROSENBERG, ADAM GOLDMAN and EMMARIE HUETTEMAN WASHINGTON -- For weeks, President Trump has insisted that President Barack Obama tapped his phones even as the F.B.I. director and members [...]

* The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, publicly confirmed an investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election and whether associates of the president were in contact with Moscow. * [...]

WASHINGTON -- The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, took the extraordinary step on Monday of announcing that the agency is investigating whether members of President Trump's campaign colluded with Russia [...]

WASHINGTON -- Halfway through Congress's 2013 summer recess, a letter landed on the desks of House Republican leaders demanding a new strategy to fight ''one of the largest grievances in [...]

WASHINGTON -- In a striking repudiation, Republicans on Wednesday threatened subpoenas and vented openly about the lack of evidence behind President Trump's tweet that President Barack Obama had wiretapped his [...]

WASHINGTON -- They agreed just a week ago to the terms of a House Intelligence Committee investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. But now some of the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Representative Charlie Crist, Democrat of Florida, has had many identities. Governor. Senate candidate. State attorney general. Education commissioner. State legislator. Democrat. Republican. Independent. Now he has added ''congressman'' [...]