WASHINGTON -- Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., underwent surgery in Washington on Tuesday to have a stent placed after having chest pains.

The Capitol's attending physician recommended Lieu go to the hospital Monday night and he was admitted to George Washington University Hospital for chest pain, according to Lieu's chief of staff, Marc Cevasco.

An ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The House cited 2020 election security concerns Wednesday when it urged the Supreme Court not to delay the enforcement of congressional subpoenas for financial records of President Donald Trump and his business from Deutsche Bank and Capital One Financial Corporation.

Any harm to Trump for allowing the enforcement of the House ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Ivanka Trump says legislation guaranteeing paid parental leave for federal workers, expected to pass Congress, is a "monumental step" that she hopes will lead to the creation of a paid leave program for all Americans.

The senior White House adviser and daughter of President Donald Trump said the provision attached to a defense ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A long-shot bid to expand health care benefits for seniors is beginning to gain attention as part of Democrats' signature health care bill, which the House is expected to vote on Thursday.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and committee leaders are aiming to use savings from the drug bill to add dental, hearing and vision benefits to Medicare....Read more

President Donald Trump went to Hershey, Pa., with a few scores to settle hours after House Democrats unveiled two articles of impeachment they appear poised to pass next week.

For more than an hour, Trump railed against House Intelligence Chairman Adam B. Schiff and Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a throng of supporters inside the Giant Center booed, ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Congress has reached a deal on a spending bill that would require the military to stop using firefighting foam containing toxic chemicals linked to cancer, but would abandon efforts to place stronger regulations on the chemicals.

The bill, called the National Defense Authorization Act, has been the focus of intense negotiations ...Read more

HERSHEY, Pa. -- President Donald Trump dismissed and mocked the articles of impeachment House Democrats unveiled Tuesday, predicting they will backfire, as he rallied a crowd of more than 10,000 supporters in a state crucial to his reelection bid.

"Any Democrat that votes for this sham will be voting to sacrifice the House majority, their ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- For three bewildering years, President Donald Trump has flatly dismissed, joked about or simply brushed aside Russia's well-documented intervention in America's 2016 presidential election.

In July 2018, during a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland, Trump stopped just short of saying he believed Putin's denials ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Minutes after House Democrats announced articles of impeachment on President Donald Trump on Tuesday, Rep. Frederica Wilson entered a meeting room in Washington and asked a group of Haitian activists about efforts to impeach their embattled president, Jovenel Moise.

"We live in the United States and we have corruption ... right in...Read more

WASHINGTON -- As he live-tweeted House Democrats' impeachment articles, President Donald Trump's spokeswoman vowed he would "continue to work on behalf of this country." Hours later, that business included huddling privately with Vladimir Putin's top diplomat in the Oval Office.

Trump essentially thumbed his nose at Democrats as they continued ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Ivanka Trump says Tuesday's announcement that House Democrats will bring articles of impeachment against her father was "a predetermined outcome" and she is keeping her focus on advancing the White House agenda, which includes securing a vote on a trade deal with Mexico and Canada.

Within minutes of Democrats revealing two ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- When House Democrats vote Thursday on their signature drug pricing negotiation measure, they will be seeking to show that they are addressing an issue that prompted voters to give them the majority and demonstrate that impeachment isn't stopping them from legislating.

The political power of the drug price issue isn't lost on ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg are selling voters on their ability to unite Democrats and Republicans around their agenda. But current and former members of Congress have a message for them: Dream on.

Biden frequently tells voters that if President Donald Trump is defeated, Republicans will have an "epiphany" and work with Democrats...Read more

WASHINGTON -- An Office of Congressional Ethics report released Monday shows in detail how Duncan Hunter's campaign committee spent money on a range of personal expenses, including flights for a pet bunny rabbit, NFL Red Zone, Jack in the Box, Starbucks and family trips to Italy and Hawaii.

The OCE report was released by the House Ethics ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Congressional leaders wrestled with a host of unresolved issues kicked upstairs after a productive weekend of spending talks, ranging from border wall construction to unrelated riders such as surprise medical billing and satellite television legislation.

Wall funding has been the major impediment to a spending deal. Sources ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court suggested Monday that individual members of Congress can't pursue a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over allegations he violated a constitutional ban on financially benefiting from the office.

An attorney for more than 200 lawmakers -- led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and House Judiciary ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court left intact a Kentucky law that forces doctors who perform abortions to first show the woman an ultrasound and give her a detailed description of the fetus, even if she doesn't want to listen.

The justices, without comment Monday, rejected an appeal by the state's only abortion clinic and its three doctors, ...Read more