House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries ducked questions about the Democrats’ stunning unpopularity in recent polling and ...

President Donald Trump’s fifth week in office included a dramatic shift in U.S. policy toward Russia, firing the country’s ...

Despite their apparent powerlessness, Democrats can block appropriations measures with a Senate filibuster, as they could in ...

President Trump cautioned House Republicans crafting a budget framework about cutting Medicaid, with some seeing a juicy ...

Shortly after Donald Trump blindsided senators and endorsed the House’s plan to advance the president’s agenda Wednesday, ...

This week's Letters to the Editor, featuring your views on national and local politics and their effect on the day-to-day ...

It was a session when the high cost of housing and closely linked issues of local government powers took central stage, as ...

One-party rule imperils Ohioans’ wallets and their state’s treasury (think House Bill 6, the FirstEnergy bailout, or the ...

The Department of Education was created by Congress in 1979 to track, manage and coordinate education programs and procedures ...

like the state budget, are several bills touching on often-contentious Republican priorities such as placing the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms and "stopping drag time story hour." "Over ...

Trump and Republican congressional leaders could fumble their way into a prolonged and painful shutdown of the federal ...

Democrats say they’ve made serious concessions and want Republicans to support a bipartisan supplemental state budget.