Explore the U.S. bicameral legislature, its structure with the House of Representatives and Senate, and the historical ...

A potential pay raise for lawmakers — which would be a first in nearly 15 years — remains an open issue in negotiations over the final fiscal 2024 Legislative Branch appropriations measure.

Lawmaking does not just mean passing bills and creating new laws. It also means oversight and accountability, as well as ...

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Lee Hamilton is a distinguished scholar at the IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and senior ...

"Caseworkers are some of the best, well-connected congressional staffers because they see and hear everything that's going on on the ground," said Stewart.

Cutting funding for the legislative branch makes Congress less competent and more reliant on special interests. As Congress writes spending bills that attempt to implement the first year of its budget ...

The concept of “court packing” has received a lot of attention recently, and rightly so. That radical move—which Democrats rejected in the 1930s—would permanently damage the independence and ...

American children are taught that the U.S. government has three separate but equal branches. However, this curriculum needs to be updated to reflect today’s realities. Now, executive branch agencies ...

MINOT, N.D. — All due respect to Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, who has announced that he'll be winding up a wonderful and very consequential career in North Dakota politics at the end of his ...

OPINION: Congress needs authority to pick a new Government Accountability Office chief — or the president could launch a hostile takeover.

The “Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act,” which was introduced in November and would require the Librarian of ...