David FitzSimmons has expensed at least $40,000 a year while serving in Republican Rep. Brad Finstad’s office, putting him near the top for congressional staffers.

A spending bill approved as part of the package that ended the federal shutdown aims to close a loophole that gave birth to $28 billion industry.

Sherrill, a Democrat who has represented the district over four terms since 2019, resigned from the seat just before midnight Thursday as she prepares to become New Jersey’s 57th governor. She defeated Republican Jack Ciattarelli earlier this month in a bitter race to succeed Murphy, a fellow Democrat who is term-limited.

The House sent to the Senate a bill that would force the release of the Epstein files, the final procedural move before President Trump's signature.

Ms. Velázquez, 72, a 16-term congresswoman, said it was time for a new generation of Democrats to step forward.

A bipartisan group in the House is looking to ban lawmakers from trading individual stocks as part of an effort to increase accountability in Congress.

San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan on Thursday launched her campaign to succeed former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is set to retire after nearly four decades in Congress.

President Donald Trump on Thursday attacked six Democratic members of Congress, including two from Pennsylvania, calling them “traitors” and accusing them of sedition that’s “punishable by death” after they urged members of the military and intelligence community to “refuse illegal orders.