Spending on U.S. House of Representatives office accounts increased by more than 85% over the past three decades but nearly ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Now that the U.S. House finally has a speaker, the 118 th Congress can get down to ...

The public’s frustration with ‘politics as usual’ has led more political newcomers to win office. But amateurs are more ...

WASHINGTON - JUNE 5: The U.S. Capitol is shown June 5, 2003 in Washington, DC. Both houses of the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives meet in the Capitol. (Photo by ...

Congress only managed to pass 27 bills in 2023, but many of its members had a much more productive year in the stock market, according to a new report that highlights their trading performance—which ...

The contests for California’s 52 House seats for the next Congress are finally decided. On Friday, Republican farmer John Duarte won his race for an open seat in a Central Valley district, defeating ...