Congress

Senators negotiating two colossal bills that would deliver more than $4 trillion for infrastructure, health care, environment and other initiatives keep insisting both bills will be fully paid for

Congress is considering a slate of new antitrust laws to rein in Big Tech power, including merger restrictions on the largest firms.

Treasury Secretary Yellen warned her department will start “extraordinary measures” on Aug. 2 if lawmakers don’t raise the debt ceiling.

Between stimulus payments, advance child tax credits and the expanded earned income tax credit, the bottom 60% of earners get an average $3,450 from Washington.

“Nobody should have to choose between caring for their family and their paycheck.”

GOP Reps. Jim Jordan and Jim Banks “made statements and took actions that just made it ridiculous to put them on such a committee,” Pelosi said.

The bipartisan infrastructure plan backed by President Biden failed to advance in the Senate, but it could see another vote Monday.

IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig testified before Congress in April that the “tax gap” — or amount of taxes owed that go unpaid each year — could be as high as $1 trillion.

Pelosi rejected two Republican picks to join the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol invasion by a mob of Trump’s supporters.

The latest batch of stimulus payments brings the total disbursed to more than 171 million since the American Rescue Plan Act was signed into law in March.

“We’re just not ready,” Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman told CNBC of the vote to advance the infrastructure bill. “So we’re going to vote no.”

Biden administration officials urged states and cities on Wednesday to move quickly to get rental assistance to households that have fallen behind.

A key procedural vote on the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan failed to pass the full Senate after Republicans united in opposition.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has picked five Republicans to sit on the new select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.

The “Cyber Incident Notification Act” is a response to the recent attacks on SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline.

Three Republican U.S. House members have lost appeals challenging fines for not wearing face coverings on the House floor earlier this year.

Two members of the House of Representatives proposed a bipartisan bill that aims to protect Britney Spears and other individuals under legal conservatorships. 

A Drug Enforcement Administration agent has been arrested for allegedly participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.

President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he will nominate progressive favorite Jonathan Kanter to lead the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division.

A White House official and a staff member for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tested positive for Covid.