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Members of Congress have officially objected to the results in four of the last six presidential elections.

The fight for control of Congress is an intense one, as Republicans hold significant advantages in the most competitive House seats. But the GOP edge is being tempered by energy among Democrats over abortion rights.

The same treaty that led to the Trail of Tears also said the Cherokee Nation could be represented by a congressional delegate. The tribal government wants the position to be filled for the first time.

Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., weighed in on Russian president Vladimir Putin's nuclear threat and stalled Iran nuclear talks on 'Special Report.'

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi extended proxy voting, allowing House members to vote without being in the Capitol, until after the November elections, despite President Biden declaring Covid "is over."

An effort by Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward and her husband to block a subpoena of their phone records issued by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has been rejected by a judge.

The Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation promises to slow the economy, and Wall Street is roiled

The super PAC is a step toward former president Donald Trump's increased involvement in the midterm races, with an eye to his own presidential run in 2024.

New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie said that expanding the federal judiciary was a "practical" decision because the U.S. population has increased.

A poll finds more Americans prefer the Senate version of a bill that would reform how Congress counts electoral vote.

The spectacle of Republican governors shipping asylum seekers to blue states is a national embarrassment — for more reasons than one.

There may be just enough votes to close the loopholes in the Electoral Count Act that Trump and his followers pried open on Jan. 6, 2021.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is rolling out his party's Trump-like midterm election agenda.

Timothy Hale-Cusanelli repeatedly expressed desire for civil war while working at N.J. naval base, trial evidence showed.

The National Insurance Crime Bureau found car thefts rose 17% from 2019 to 2021.

With Congress gridlocked, tech firms have got away with toothless privacy laws at state level. Why not play them at their own game?

With Congress gridlocked, tech firms have got away with toothless privacy laws at state level. Why not play them at their own game?

A last-minute deal prevented a railroad strike for now, but many rail workers remain unhappy with working conditions.

The measure is intended to prevent future disruptions of the counting of electoral votes by Congress.

The bill would set new parameters around the Electoral Count Act and make it harder for lawmakers to object to a state's electoral votes.

The measure is intended to prevent future disruptions of the counting of electoral votes by Congress.

The Presidential Election Reform Act, authored by Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), explicitly cites the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack as a reason to amend the Electoral Count Act of 1887.

Author Jack E. Davis shares the history of the bald eagle's comeback from near extinction with Fox News Digital at the Library of Congress National Book Festival.

The central idea behind House and Senate bills to reform an arcane federal election law is simple: Congress should not decide presidential elections.

About 20 states will allow same-day voter registration for the 2022 midterm elections. In the others, voters will need to register before the deadlines listed.

Rep. Liz Cheney said Tuesday that the passage of an Electoral Count Act reform bill is an important step toward ensuring the peaceful transfer of power in future presidential elections, but that there are limits to how much Congress can do.

The bill, intended to insure there's no repeat of Jan. 6, 2021, must also pass the Senate if it is approved by the House.

An Atlanta Journal Constitution poll found that Republicans are leading on the generic congressional ballot in Georgia, while Walker holds a slim lead over Warnock in the Senate race.

An Atlanta Journal Constitution poll found that Republicans are leading on the generic congressional ballot in Georgia, while Walker holds a slim lead over Warnock in the Senate race.

Republicans are threatening to tank Manchin's pro-oil bill over 'bad blood' from climate deal

Biden's comments — made as officials try to convince Americans to get a new booster shot and the White House seeks $22 billion in new COVID funding — were "unfortunate," several epidemiologists said.

As of Sept. 13, there are six Indigenous Americans represented in the House of Representatives, which now has Native American, Native Hawaiian, and Native Alaskan members.

House Democrats are voting this week on changes to a 19th century law for certifying presidential elections.

House Democrats are voting this week on changes to a 19th century law for certifying presidential elections, their strongest legislative response yet to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat. The vote to overhaul the Electoral Count Act, expected Wednesday, comes as a bipartisan group of senators is moving forward with a similar bill. Trump and his allies tried to exploit the law’s vague language in the weeks after the election as they strategized how they could keep Joe Biden out of office, including by lobbying Vice President Mike Pence to simply object to the certification of Biden’s victory when Congress counted the votes on Jan. 6.

The Naming Commission submitted its final report of recommendations to Congress Monday for renaming or removing Defense Department assets that honor the Confederacy.

The legislation would clearly reaffirm the vice president has no role in validating a presidential election beyond acting as a figurehead that oversees the counting process.

The Biden administration has dismantled every tool the U.S. has to stop the flow of illegal aliens across the border. It should be Leader McCarthy's highest priority in the new Congress.

Understanding the 2022 Midterm ElectionsNovember’s midterm elections are likely to shift the political landscape and impact what President Biden can accomplish during the remainder of his first term. When are the midterm elections? The midterm elections determine control of Congress: The party that has the House or Senate majority gets to organize the chamber and decide what legislation Congress considers. Every seat in the House and a third of the seats in the 100-member Senate are up for election. Here are the most interesting Democratic primaries and Republican primaries to watch as Republicans and Democrats try to nominate their most electable candidates.

In an interview on "60 Minutes," the president said, "We still have a problem with COVID. We're still doing a lotta work on it. ... But the pandemic is over."

Chicago weather was crazy, and is getting crazier. Here are five ways you can take steps to help in the fight against climate change.

"That's what they did in 2021 when they made critical race theory sound worse than smallpox," Clinton said in an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria.

The House Oversight Committee will use the information in its investigation of allegations of conflict of interest when Trump was in office, and any possible violations of the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause.

Maxwell Frost, who is poised to become the youngest member of the House, sees the world differently than his would-be colleagues.

Sarah Sanders, the Republican nominee for Arkansas governor, underwent surgery Friday to remove her thyroid gland after doctors discovered cancer earlier this month.

Social Security's services have not been able to keep up as the agency's funding falls short of what it needs. Upcoming Congressional budget action may help.

A Michigan man was sentenced on Friday to five years in federal prison for his role in the U.S. Capitol attack by a mob that disrupted Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's 2020 electoral victory. Chief Judge Beryl Howell also sentenced Anthony Robert Williams, 47, of Southgate, Michigan, to three years of supervised release after his prison term and ordered him to pay $2,000 in restitution and a $5,000 fine, according to a U.S. Justice Department news release. In June, a jury convicted Williams of a felony count of obstructing the Jan. 6, 2021, joint session of Congress for certifying the Electoral College vote.

Demanding fair pay and decent working conditions offends a society trained to think of these (mostly female) caregivers as tireless, self-sacrificing servants.

The American Legion is celebrating 103 years of remarkable and continued service to U.S. military veterans and their families, ever since it was chartered on this day in history, Sept. 16, 1919.

After a news conference, two people with the Voters for Tomorrow group attempt to ask questions of the Georgia lawmaker and things turn physical.

The Florida governor told applauding supporters that he might send immigrants "to Chicago, Hollywood, Martha’s Vineyard. Who knows?”

Democrats in Congress maintain the VA has authority to cover abortions under the Veterans Health Care Eligibility Reform Act of 1996.

They said his earlier decision to leave the decision to a New York court has created "vicious infighting" among victims.

Pope Francis says the Vatican is in contact with the Nicaraguan government about its crackdown on the Catholic Church and hoped that “at the very least” nuns from Mother Teresa’s Sisters of Charity religious order would be allowed to return to the country.

The Respect for Marriage Act would enshrine federal protections for same-sex and interracial marriages and repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act.

New polling shows a marked difference between the parties in concern about democracy — and in how much benefit they get from it.

Facing re-election in November, California's Democratic governor is spending some campaign money on ads in states where abortion is banned or limited.

The announcements reflect a growing push from the Biden administration to examine the link between online rhetoric and mass shootings.

A strike by railroad workers would have wide-ranging impact on consumers, commuters and businesses.

Freight railroads and their unions are facing increasing pressure from business groups and the White House to settle their contract dispute.

The heads of the nation’s two largest rail unions said Sunday that the freight railroads’ move to begin delaying some hazardous shipments ahead of this week’s looming strike deadline is only an attempt to get shippers to increase the pressure on Congress to block a work stoppage by imposing a contract on workers.

Security-sealed rooms and lock bags are some of the ways Capitol Hill keeps classified documents secured.

Federal funding ends on September 30, which means Congress must pass a spending bill by then to avoid a shutdown.

President Joe Biden’s request for $47 billion in emergency funding is getting a thumbs down from Republicans in Congress.

Thousands of Indians have rallied under key opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, who made a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government over soaring unemployment and rising food and fuel prices.

President Joe Biden is asking Congress to provide more than $47 billion in emergency dollars that would go toward the war in Ukraine, the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing monkeypox outbreak and help for recent natural disasters in Kentucky and other states.

A House committee seeking financial records from former President Donald Trump has reached an agreement that ends litigation on the matter and requires his accounting firm to turn over certain records to the panel.

Many have cheered the White House proposal to provide student loan debt relief to millions of Americans as a significant step toward addressing the nation’s racial wealth gap and other inequities facing borrowers of color.

The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on climate change could have implications for a range of other issues, including a case involving nuclear waste storage and a proposal requiring companies to disclose how climate risk affects their businesses.

The recent passage of legislation that would limit the cost of insulin for Medicare patients has renewed hope for those pushing for Congress to do more.

Millions of people in the United States will be spared from big increases in health care costs next year after President Joe Biden signed legislation extending generous subsidies for those who buy plans through federal and state marketplaces.

President Joe Biden arrived at the White House promising to “build back” America, and on Tuesday he's signing into law legislation with a slimmer version of that idea.

Climate activists are pressuring President Joe Biden to declare a national climate emergency, something the White House hasn't done yet.

The biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change.

Democrats have pushed their landmark climate and health care bill through Congress, handing an election-year victory to President Joe Biden.

Since its independence in 1947, India has transformed from a poverty-stricken nation into one of the world's fastest-growing economies.

Whether it's the fitness tracker on your wrist, the “smart” home appliances in your house or the latest kids’ fad going viral in online videos, they all produce a trove of personal data for big tech companies.

Congress is poised to pass a transformative climate change fighting bill.

The facility was vandalized in June following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe V. Wade.

A federal appeals court is siding with Congress in a fight over former President Donald Trump's tax returns.

The leader of the Vermont state Senate Becca Balint could become the first woman and the first openly gay person to represent the state in Congress.

Democrats call it the “Inflation Reduction Act.”.

Jill Biden barnstormed the country during her debut year as first lady as if on a one-woman mission to help her husband's administration tackle the problem of the moment.

Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin are making the case for overhauling the 1800s-era Electoral Count Act.

State Rep. Shri Thanedar has won Michigan’s 13th Congressional Democratic primary, topping a field of nine candidates in a district that covers most of Detroit and a number of surrounding suburbs.

After 13 years, at least three crashes, dozens of scams and Ponzi schemes and hundreds of billions of dollars made and evaporated, cryptocurrencies finally have the full attention of Congress.

Every year, the fins of as many as 73 million sharks are sliced from the backs of the majestic sea predators, their bleeding bodies sometimes dumped back into the ocean where they are left to suffocate or die of blood loss.

Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer, who witnessed the Capitol riot days after taking office in 2021 and then cast one of the 10 Republican votes to impeach Donald Trump over the attack, has lost his reelection bid.

Top congressional Democrats have requested sit-down interviews and internal documents from the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general.

On Monday, Senators Tim Kaina, Lisa Murkowski, Kyrsten Sinema, and Susan Collins introduced the Reproductive Freedom For All Act to protect and prohibit further action in reproductive healthcare, according to a release.

In a story published on July 29, 2022, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of the executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action as Jason Quimet.

The Senate has passed a bill that's designed to encourage more semiconductor companies to build chip plants in the United States.

Like many in her Peruvian Andes community, María Acevedo voted for Pedro Castillo for president last year, drawn in part by the possibility of seeing the nation led by someone with rural roots like her own.

The Biden administration wants the government to plant more than a billion trees across millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands as officials struggle to counter climate change's increasing toll on the nation’s forests.

Some parents struggled to keep food on the table since the beginning of the pandemic, and these organizations are pushing for a potential solution.

Some federal lawmakers urged Google last month to limit the appearance of anti-abortion pregnancy centers in certain abortion-related search results.

A majority of Americans say Congress should pass a law guaranteeing access to legal abortion nationwide.

Key Republicans are warming up to passing a bill that provides roughly $52 billion in incentives for the semiconductor industry.

A bill that would provide grants, tax credits and other incentives for computer chip manufacturing may soon see action in the Senate.

Congress has given its ultimate salute to Hershel W.

The Biden administration and Democrats are warning of dire consequences if Congress fails to act on computer chips legislation.