Elijah Cummings, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, approached his Republican counterpart to urge a hear...

SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATES. WASHINGTON -- Two House Republicans have cast votes as members of the 112th Congress, but were not sworn in on Wednesday, ...

WASHINGTON -- The top two members of the House panel that will be the most closely watched in the 112th Congress continued to spar over the ongoing fo...

WASHINGTON - A Republican who missed the swearing-in ceremony on the House floor because he was at a fundraiser in the Capitol has removed critical de...

Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who represents a district adjacent to Gabrielle Giffords's, said that Saturday's shooting is a consequence of the vitrio...

Scroll down for updates. Rep. Peter King, a Republican from New York, is planning to introduce legislation that would make it illegal to bring a gun ...

Utah police shot and killed a man within seconds of storming his parents' home, video of the raid shows. The police had a warrant to search for drugs,...

UPDATE - Jan. 19 - 11:40 a.m. - In a message to supporters forwarded to HuffPost, Joe Lieberman announced that he's ending his Senate career, quoting ...

Leading conservative House Republicans announced Thursday some specific programs they plan to target in service of their campaign pledge to cut govern...

If President Barack Obama was hoping to win over the Republican Party by proposing a five-year freeze in non-security discretionary spending during hi...

The cross-party-dating tradition that began tonight did not go off as smoothly as it appeared from the television screens. Much like in the legislat...

WASHINGTON - House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa's investigation into the foreclosure crisis is off to a rough start. On Wednesday, the ranking Demo...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama plans to take questions from YouTube viewers Thursday afternoon, and for the third time in as many years, the ove...

WASHINGTON -- Drug legalization is an "entirely legitimate topic for debate," President Barack Obama said Thursday during his online YouTube town hall...

WASHINGTON -- Three leading House Republicans have introduced legislation to repeal the Home Affordable Modification Program, the Obama administration...

WASHINGTON -- Junior Senate Democrats have waged a behind-the-scenes campaign since the November election to try to shake up the committee-selection p...

As Congress debates measures to reduce the deficit, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) declared Social Security "off the table" in a web video...