The bald eagle has been lauded as a symbol of the United States, but it wasn't officially the national bird until Tuesday.

On the first day of the new Congress, representatives will vote for the speaker of the House as Mike Johnson fights to keep ...

Common Cause is urging Congress to preserve the Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent watchdog that has investigated ...

Reps. Jason Crow and Zach Nunn are leading 49 other House lawmakers in a letter urging Congress to preserve the Afghan ...

The speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives is not required to be a member of Congress. The U.S. Constitution does not ...

Senator-elect. Jim Banks (R-IN) delivered his final speech as the Congressman for Indiana’s third district on the floor of ...

The top Democrat on the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee said on Friday that Republicans in Congress were ...

The United States government has always been a rowdy, often nasty, bunch: fist fights, knives pulled, guns cocked. In 1838, ...

Elon Musk has a 3 percent chance of becoming speaker of the House, according to online betting website Polymarket.

Republican Blogger Brendon Leslie Accused of Serial Workplace Sexual Harassment, Intimidation Brendon Leslie, CEO of the ...

A "corrupt bargain" that delivered John Quincy Adams the presidency ended the Era of Good Feelings and prompted a new period ...