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Byline: Fawn Johnson and Alex Rogers After a winding debate and several near-death experiences, the first major rewrite of education law in more than a dozen years passed the Senate [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson Senate GOP leaders are homing in on a multiyear highway bill that could resolve the perennial problem of how to fund surface transportation until well past the [...]

Byline: Daniel Newhauser and Fawn Johnson House Republicans squeaked a contentious education bill through to passage Wednesday despite conservatives' objections that it does not do enough to minimize the role [...]

Byline: Dylan Scott and Fawn Johnson Congressional Republicans were in a state of shock Thursday after the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare's insurance subsidies nationwide, but they quickly laid out next [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson Senate Democrats hope to stop a lauded defense authorization bill this week before President Obama has a chance to veto it. It will mark their latest, but [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson Tax writers in Congress thought they had the rest of the year to put together a new corporate tax scheme for the country, but now they have [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson Congress is thinking globally this week. Fresh off of a Senate victory last week clearing the way for Congress to review a final Iran nuclear deal, lawmakers [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is staying silent amid a division among senior Senate Republicans -- including two powerful chairmen -- over how to renew the highway [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson Redesigning America's Community Colleges Thomas R. Bailey, Shanna Smith Jaggars, and Davis Jenkins Harvard University Press, April 2015 . . . . . . . . . [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson and Sarah Mimms The most important legislative horse-trading this week will be happening in committee rooms, not on the House or Senate floor. The Senate Health, Education, [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson After years of squabbling, lawmakers may actually have settled on a workable rewrite of the landmark No Child Left Behind law. The top Democrat and Republican on [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson and Sarah Mimms As Dick Durbin and Chuck Schumer feud over the future of the Senate Democratic leadership, the senator who could gain the most from their [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson Starbucks has 21 coffee shops in Berlin. It has 50 locations in London. In the last three months of 2014, its European and Middle Eastern sales generated [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson Government Against Itself: Public Union Power and Its Consequences by Daniel DiSalvo Oxford University Press, 2015 WHAT IT'S ABOUT (Oxford University Press)It's never a good idea to [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson After the midterm elections handed Republicans control of the Senate last year, John Thune had to make a decision. Would he step down as the Senate's No. [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson Bill Nelson is fired up about supercookies. More specifically, the Senate Commerce Committee's top Democrat is ticked off at Verizon. He says the mobile tracking devices that [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson Dave Schwietert Majority Staff Director Schwietert hails from South Dakota like his boss, Committee Chairman John Thune. And like the avid runner Thune, he's active. He's into [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson In a partisan climate that spells doom for the vast majority of issues, there are at least two policy arenas left where Republicans, Democrats, and the White [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson and Sarah Mimms Senators meet with their individual parties for lunch every week, sometimes multiple times a week. And yet they haven't convened all together for any [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson A potential showdown is looming between Senate Democrats and the White House over Iran, one that could lead to the first successful veto override of President Obama's [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson Republican leaders and committee chairs must figure out how to answer the Far Right's call for an all-out assault on Obamacare, even though many of them believe [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson and Rachel Roubein Senate Republicans are willing to use a vital spending bill to fight President Obama on immigration. But not as hard as their House colleagues [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson The Senate will see a lot of firsts this week. The debate over authorizing the Keystone XL pipeline will officially begin on Monday with the chamber's first [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson Mitch McConnell may have the job he's always dreamed of as Senate majority leader, but at least one part of that role remains as unpleasant for him [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson and Sarah Mimms The first day of the new Senate is a field day for photographers and gossip columnists. There is a lot of pomp and tradition [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson The playbook is pretty simple: Parole some undocumented people. Wait for the furor to die down. Sign a law a few years later to legalize them permanently. [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson Bridgette Richardson Hempstead knows almost nothing about football, but she recently found herself standing on the sidelines of the Seattle Seahawks' CenturyLink Field, with microphone in hand [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson Who is more civically engaged--the person who votes in every election or the nonvoter who volunteers as a crossing guard at the local elementary school? What about [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson President Obama wants the public to understand 'why we're doing this' when he takes whatever executive actions he is planning to ease deportations for at least some [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson There is no logical way to explain why Mexican children who enter the United States illegally are treated differently than children from other countries other than this: [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson and Billy House Nearly as many House Republicans as Democrats voted on Tuesday to pass a bill to keep federal highway projects temporarily running into the next [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson Currently, college applicants must wait to apply for federal financial aid until the second semester of their senior year in high school. That's because the application requires [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson and Rachel Roubein Asking for money from Congress is dangerous. President Obama requested (http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/how-the-white-house-wants-to-spend-3-7-billion-on-the-border-crisis-20140708) $3.7 billion on Tuesday to address the surge of unaccompanied minors on the [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson Senate Democrats this week failed to garner the 60 votes needed to advance Sen. Elizabeth Warren's legislation to allow all student borrowers to refinance their loans at [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson Three years ago, Maria Rodriguez stood in the rotunda of the Florida state Capitol crying tears of relief after the state Senate effectively killed a harsh immigration [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson In late 2011, Eddie Triste walked into a meeting at his community college. There, a couple of middle-aged guys offered him $15,000 to help finance the rest [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson As Congress begins to work on reauthorizing the Higher Education Act, it has become clear that one of the issues lawmakers are likely to address is student [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson It's the most influential jobs bill you've never heard of, and this summer it might be updated for the first time in 14 years. When the Workforce [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson James Inhofe is airing a new campaign ad. It shows the 79-year-old lawmaker flying a private plane upside down. His nephew, a video producer, mounted cameras on [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson Immigration reform was once a real thing on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers huddled in secret; political risks were calculated and taken; tentative deals were struck. But now, despite [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson Ray LaHood stepped down from his job as President Obama's Transportation secretary last summer, but he hasn't lost his drive. As a senior policy adviser at law [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson Hispanic voters twice helped put President Obama in the White House, and twice were promised immigration reform. Six years into Obama's administration, Democrats' repeated blaming of Republican [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson The GOP's 2014 economic message is mobility. It's an extension of the by-your-bootstraps ideology that's been baked into the party's self-image for decades. When you ask Republicans [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson and George E. Condon Jr. The Fix Is In Leave it to former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, an unapologetic proponent of government spending, to dream two impossible [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson If you are not a U.S. citizen and you want to move to America to be with your U.S. citizen spouse or fiancé, you cannot get a [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson After eight days without power, Abbe Milstein walked out of her home in Montgomery County, Md., itching for a fight. The 2012 derecho had knocked out electricity [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--Mary Scott Hunter is a lifelong Republican, military veteran, military wife, corporate lawyer, small-business owner, Sunday school teacher, and mom of three school-age kids. Her father [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson If you're a high school student in Texas and dream of a career in the arts, you might want to know that fine-arts and studio-arts graduates at [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson In 1919, Oregon became the first state to institute a gas tax to help pay for its roads and transportation infrastructure. Now the state is working on [...]

Byline: Fawn Johnson Republicans consider mandatory electronic employment verification an essential piece of any immigration bill--so much so that even Democrats with reservations realize it is a prerequisite to getting [...]