Several weeks following the release of Congress of over $2 trillion to in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the oversight commission formed to monitor how the funds are spent, remains with no leader.
Georgette Gomez, the first LGBTQ+ Latina, hopes to be part of congress. (Photo : Wikimedia Commons) As thousands of women have hit the streets to protect their freedoms and for gender equality.
Bryan Russell has Down syndrome, but that's not stopping him from making a difference in his community. He is officially the first in the world to run for a publicly elected office despite his condition.
The proposal also cuts billions of funds from Medicaid. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that, under the Senate's proposed healthcare bill known as the Better Care Reconciliation Act, 22 million fewer Americans will be covered by the year 2026.
4 Senators vow to vote against the proposed bill as it stands. In what is shaping up to be a significant blow to the White House, President Donald Trump faces another political hurdle in his zeal to repeal and replace Obamacare.
A contest for one seat in the House has injured a reporter and sent shockwaves through Washington. It's election day in Montana and a special congressional race for its only seat in the House of Representatives is dominating headlines for suprising reasons.
President Barack Obama wants to transfer the remaining 91 prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay jail to the United States in a bid to end the highly-controversial existence of the detention facility.
A Republican-backed proposal to tighten screening procedures on refugees fleeing war from Syria and Iraq was blocked by Democrats in the Senate on Wednesday.
President Barack Obama is set to deliver his final State of the Union address on Tuesday night, and experts believe he will use the opportunity to try to define his legacy and set the tone for the next president.
Fans of "The Daily Show" have missed former host Jon Stewart since he handed over the show. Although many still enjoy new host Trevor Noah, fans were excited to see Stewart mount a comeback last night. Watch the videos here.
Trevor Noah recently reflected upon how much he has had to speak about mass shootings in America In just the first two months of his term at the helm of "The Daily Show." See what he had to say about the issue and Sen. Mitch McConnell here.
Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric, often perceived as anti-Mexican within the Latino community, has not gone unnoticed on Capitol Hill, where prominent Latino GOP leaders are working to put roadblocks onto his path toward their party's nomination.
The U.S. Senate passed a two-year budget deal early Friday morning that raises funding levels and suspends the nation's debt limit until March 2017. The approval of the bipartisan bill also prevents a U.S. default next week and a potential government shutdown in December.
Bill Flores, a three-term congressman from central Texas, on Monday announced that he was hoping to replace outgoing House Speaker John Boehner - which would make the 61-year-old second in the U.S. presidential line of succession.
Just hours before the midnight deadline, Congress averted a government shutdown Wednesday night by approving a temporary spending bill that will keep federal agencies open through Dec. 11.
The chairman of a congressional committee investigating the 2012 attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, said that "huge gaps" exist in the e-mails Hillary Clinton has turned over to the panel. Trey Gowdy, who heads the House select committee on Benghazi, said that no messages from her trip to North Africa were released.
Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski, the longest-serving woman in congressional history, will not run for a sixth term in the U.S. Senate in 2016, her office announced on Monday. The 78-year-old Democrat said her decision came down to how the demands of another campaign would have affected her ability to work on behalf of her constituents.
