The resolution expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should reduce and maintain the federal unified budget deficit at or below 3% of GDP while acknowledging that the deficit for fiscal year 2025 was roughly 6% of GDP and interest costs are now projected to total over $1 trillion each year going forward.

At a Jan. 3 press conference after Maduro’s capture, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that members of Congress were not notified in advance. Trump said the administration was concerned about lawmakers potentially leaking news of the decision.

Members of Congress have introduced a resolution demanding equal pay for Black women amid persistent racial and gender wage gaps in the United States. Marking Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, U.S. Reps. Alma Adams, D-N.C., Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J ...

When I recently asked whose power is the war power, it was not intended to be a trick question. But for the Founders in framing the Constitution, it was a tricky issue to tackle. They concluded the two principal branches should share the war power.

Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise should lead their colleagues to make and abide by at least four New Year’s resolutions.

The chamber will decide whether to take up a Congressional Review Act resolution, S.J. Res. 86, from Environment and Public Works ranking member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), against EPA’s approval of a South Dakota regional haze plan.