Puzzling break-ins over the last month at the offices of at least three House members and several committees have U.S. Capitol Police gumshoes working to find a pattern and the culprits, with missing items ranging from cash and ex...

The Republican-led House on Wednesday approved in a mostly partisan 222-205 vote its own version of a bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, rejecting Democratic requests to also permit a vote on the version passed in...

The Republican-led House on Wednesday approved in a mostly partisan 222 to 205 vote its own version of a Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, rejecting Democratic requests to also permit a vote on the ...

President Obama told House Speaker John Boehner and other congressional leaders on Wednesday that he "refuses to allow" a repeat of last year's fight over raising the debt ceiling, White House press secretary Jay ...

Barring another drubbing this fall, the House Democratic Caucus is unlikely to chase Rep. Nancy Pelosi off as its leader. That she might opt for retirement, however, has Democratic tongues wagging and is making so...

Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., Tuesday denied any control over the decisions of the Young Guns Action Fund, a group with which he has close ties and which has drawn Cantor into controversy for some of its ear...

The United States and its Latin American neighbors are entering into an “important moment for the prosperity of our hemisphere” through trade agreements and other hopes for lasting engagement, says House Speaker  Read More »

A group of House members announced on Monday that they have introduced a bill to prevent hazing in the armed services, prompted partly by the suicide last year of a nephew of Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., while he was ...

The proliferation of outside organizations raising and spending money on behalf of Republican candidates is nothing but a good thing for the GOP. But those groups don't always work at parallel purposes, fostering resentment and in...

Businessman Wil Cardon, hoping to defeat six-term Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., for the GOP's Senate nomination has sent out invitations for a Washington reception next Tuesday at the Capitol Hill Club. A glance at the g...

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is trying to raise money and whip up more grassroots activity by seizing on Speaker John Boehner’s own comments that Republicans have a 1-in-3 cha...

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, took to the House floor on Friday to forcefully denounce what he characterized as a “fake” fight being picked by Democrats with Republicans over freezing student loan intere...

Next week’s congressional recess is formally called a “constituent work week” by the House. That name implies the traditional recess activity of hosting town-hall meetings and fielding questions from constituents.

A Republican bill that would keep interest rates on federal student loans low isn’t sincere, the White House said on Thursday, because it wasn't part of the House Republican budget.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, appears ready—maybe even this week—to finally recognize Mitt Romney as the all-but-official Republican presidential nominee.