District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser is pushing for the House of Representatives to pass legislation restoring full ...

State Sen. Julia Kirt spoke about lawmakers' efforts to help victims of the fires. Emergency agencies across the state jumped ...

House Bill 1255 was defeated in the Senate in a 41-6 vote. If passed, it would have prohibited the state from allocating ...

Sen. Mattie Daughtry and community college leaders say it's not enough to provide free tuition, the state also has to help ...

Schumer has drawn stiff criticism from some of his party for breaking with a majority of Democratic lawmakers to vote to ...

Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said he doesn’t know what happened late last week that resulted in Senate Minority Leader Chuck ...

Readers react to D.C. budget cuts and to the University of Virginia dissolving its office of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is postponing several events across the country this week to promote his new ...

These Senators could have used the filibuster to demand that Republicans come to the table to negotiate a bipartisan agreement. Instead, they folded. In doing so, they became emblematic of a neutered ...

Unlike in Trump’s first term, Democratic voters say 2-to-1 they want party leaders to fight rather than compromise, even at ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has postponed a number of U.S. stops on a book tour over safety concerns after outrage ...

President Donald Trump has signed into law legislation funding the government through the end of September, ending the threat ...