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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna reached a deal with GOP leadership, agreeing to back down from her bipartisan push to force a floor vote on a parental proxy plan.

Congress

House rejects proxy voting for new parents, chooses ‘pairing’ instead

Luna calls it a good solution ‘for now,’ while Democrats push back

By Justin Papp
Posted April 8, 2025 at 4:59pm

President Donald Trump announces his tariff plan during an April 2 event at the White House Rose Garden.

White House

How two veteran lawmakers sum up parties’ views on Trump’s economic agenda

By John T. Bennett
Posted April 8, 2025 at 3:51pm
Texas’ 18th District seat has been vacant since the March 5 death of Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner, above right.

Campaigns

Special election for Turner seat set for November, drawing Democratic outrage

By Andrew Menezes
Posted April 8, 2025 at 1:56pm
President Donald Trump arrives Tuesday to sign an executive order in the East Room of the White House.

Policy

Groups start anew in legal challenge to Trump immigration move

By Chris Johnson
Posted April 8, 2025 at 4:58pm
Pennsylvania Rep. Ryan Mackenzie is on the DCCC's initial list of targeted seats for 2026.

Campaigns

House Democrats unveil 35 Republican targets for 2026 midterms

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted April 8, 2025 at 5:00am
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., talks with reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday. Another item on her calendar that day was an excursion to a nearby federal building to hold a DOGE field hearing.

Live on location, DOGE subcommittee looks at federal real estate

By Jim Saksa
Posted April 8, 2025 at 3:19pm
Thousands of protesters gather for the Hands Off rally around the Washington Monument on Saturday.

Supreme Court halts lower court order to rehire at six agencies

By Michael Macagnone
Posted April 8, 2025 at 1:24pm

Track and shape policy faster than ever.

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted January 15, 2025 at 11:59am

Capitol Lens | Chomp and circumstance

By Bill Clark
Posted April 8, 2025 at 11:55am

Capitol Ink | Reconcilable differences

By R.J. Matson
Posted April 8, 2025 at 7:00am
Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif., says Californians she speaks to are more opposed to the policies of the Trump administration than ever.

California rising up against Trump again, with different approach

By Christina Bellantoni
Posted April 8, 2025 at 5:00am

Read the latest issue

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 23, 2020 at 11:36am
The Department of Justice headquarters in Washington.

Nonprofits in limbo as DOJ deletes domestic violence grant notice

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted April 7, 2025 at 5:55pm, Updated at 11:48pm
Workers erect scaffolding around the exterior of the U.S. Supreme Court building on Friday.

Supreme Court allows Trump immigration move under wartime law

By Chris Johnson
Posted April 7, 2025 at 8:53pm
President Donald Trump speaks Monday in the Oval Office as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump open to tariff talks but warns of locking some countries out of US market

By John T. Bennett
Posted April 7, 2025 at 5:49pm, Updated at 8:01pm
Michigan Rep. John James, pictured here at a news conference outside the Capitol in May 2024, is running for governor.

Rep. John James launches campaign for Michigan governor

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted April 7, 2025 at 7:59pm
Rep. Brittany Pettersen, seen here in 2023 with her older child, recently gave birth and has traveled with her newborn to Washington to cast votes.

Luna’s proxy deal with leadership ‘not a win’ for moms, Pettersen says

By Justin Papp
Posted April 7, 2025 at 5:22pm, Updated at 7:55pm
New Mexico Rep. Gabe Vasquez speaks at a news conference with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus during House Democrats’ retreat in Leesburg, Va., in March. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Democrat Gabe Vasquez keeps it low key in a pivotal swing seat

By Daniela Altimari
Posted April 7, 2025 at 7:05pm
Sprinklers water the lawn in front of the Supreme Court.

US asks Supreme Court to halt order to undo deportation error

By Michael Macagnone
Posted April 7, 2025 at 1:33pm, Updated at 4:49pm
Rep. Laura Gillen is seen in her Cannon building office on April 1. The New York Democrat unseated Anthony D'Esposito in November.

Rep. Laura Gillen on traffic, campus protests and early days in Congress

By Jim Saksa
Posted April 7, 2025 at 4:08pm
Thousands of protesters gather for the Hands Off rally on the National Mall in Washington on Saturday. Hands Off organized a nationwide mobilization of protests against the Trump administration.

Team Trump stumbles in Wisconsin and beyond

By Stuart Rothenberg
Posted April 7, 2025 at 3:15pm
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., walks through the Senate Reception Room in the Capitol on March 11.

Senate Republicans get ready to roll on revised budget

By David Lerman and Caitlin Reilly
Posted April 2, 2025 at 6:01pm, Updated April 7, 2025 at 2:45pm
Signs point the way to measles testing in the parking lot of the Seminole Hospital District across from Wigwam Stadium on Feb. 27 in Seminole, Texas.

Amid measles outbreak, Trump pulls funding for vaccines

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted April 4, 2025 at 11:14am, Updated April 7, 2025 at 1:41pm
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., says use of budget maneuver amounts to opening Pandora's box.

‘Current policy’ debate dogs budget reconciliation efforts

By David Lerman
Posted April 7, 2025 at 1:14pm
The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington.

Appeals court reinstates board members Trump fired

By Michael Macagnone
Posted April 7, 2025 at 12:01pm
Democrats raised concerns over the removal of books from the U.S. Naval Academy library. Above, a Naval Academy graduation ceremony in 2021.

Democrats call for halt of military academy book purge

By Briana Reilly
Posted April 7, 2025 at 11:32am
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., reportedly reached a deal after a showdown over proxy voting caused him to cancel House votes last week. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

This week: House GOP may revive ‘paired voting’ to get floor schedule back on track

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted April 7, 2025 at 6:03am
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., arrives for a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on April 1.

House GOP won’t be jammed by Senate on budget, leaders pledge

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted April 5, 2025 at 3:23pm
The Capitol dome is lit as the Senate prepares to begin its vote-a-rama on the GOP’s budget resolution on Friday evening.

Budget plan with dueling tax, spending targets OK’d in Senate

By CQ Roll Call Staff
Posted April 5, 2025 at 4:59am, Updated at 12:10pm
Staffers wheel pizzas through the Capitol as the Senate prepares to begin its vote-a-rama on the GOP’s budget resolution on Friday evening.

Senate begins long night of budget votes

By David Lerman and Caitlin Reilly
Posted April 4, 2025 at 9:36pm
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been critical of weight loss drugs, instead placing a focus on lifestyle changes to lose weight.

Trump pulls back Biden’s plan to cover weight loss drugs

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted April 4, 2025 at 7:27pm
Sen. Cory Booker’s 25-hour, four-minute speech this week set the record for longest floor speech in the Senate’s history.

The last word — Congressional Hits and Misses

By Chris Hale
Posted April 4, 2025 at 4:27pm
National Security Agency director Gen. Timothy Haugh testifies during a Senate Select Intelligence Committee hearing on March 25.

Democrats criticize Trump’s firing of National Security Agency director

By Briana Reilly
Posted April 4, 2025 at 3:52pm
President Donald Trump holds up a chart while announcing sweeping new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2.

Fact check: Trump’s misleading tariff chart

By FactCheck.org
Posted April 4, 2025 at 11:00am
Film director Oliver Stone arrives to testify to the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets hearing on the JFK files in the Capitol Visitor Center on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | March 28-April 3, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted April 4, 2025 at 10:12am
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., seen in the Capitol on Thursday, was the last senator to vote on motion to proceed to the budget resolution.

Senate starts debate on GOP budget plan after delayed vote

By Caitlin Reilly and David Lerman
Posted April 3, 2025 at 8:36pm

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