Meanwhile, Democratic governors and legislatures are expanding free and reduced-price school meal programs.

The bipartisan compromise between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy passed with only 17 Republicans voting yes.

Enough Senate Republicans to filibuster legislation say they will not back any clean debt limit increase.

The ad was produced by the tax-exempt group One Nation, which has received millions of dollars from fossil fuel companies in recent years.

A Congressional Budget Office analysis shows congressional Republicans cannot get to a balanced budget in 10 years without unpopular cuts or higher taxes.

At least 15 current senators and representatives say reductions in funding to safety net programs should be discussed.

Republicans are trying to overturn a Labor Department regulation that allows retirement funds to consider environmental, social, and governance behaviors of the companies in which they invest.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is running blatantly dishonest ads against six Democratic incumbents.

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) wants to end the automated funding of the safety net program so Congress can start ‘managing it.’

A case involving an Indiana man who suffered from dementia could have far-reaching consequences.

The Senate Republican leader says that the plan is Scott’s, not the Republican Party’s. But Scott is not alone.

The latest jobs report shows unemployment at its lowest level since 1969.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is spinning his party’s failures as a mandate.

The Florida Republican’s unpopular proposal would sunset Social Security and Medicare and raise taxes for millions.

Funds for the grants come from the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure, Investment, and Jobs Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law on Nov. 15, 2021.

GOP Whip Steve Scalise is urging his caucus to oppose even a brief continuing resolution to avert a holiday crisis.

Outside groups — often funded by undisclosed sources — supporting Republican House and Senate candidates significantly outspent groups supporting Democrats in close races.

The Republican finger-pointing is in full swing after the party’s disastrous performance in the Georgia Senate runoff.

‘They have no idea what integrity is,’ the brother of the late Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick said of their refusal to shake GOP leaders’ hands at a congressional gold medal ceremony.

‘It’s always better with 51, because we’re in a situation where you don’t have to have an even makeup of the committees,’ President Joe Biden has stated to stress the importance of reelecting Sen. Raphael Warnock.

The Mitch McConnell-linked Senate Leadership Fund super PAC repeats false accusations made by Republican candidate Herschel Walker.

The Senate Leadership Fund did not even bother to get a different person to attack Democratic Sens. Raphael Warnock and Catherine Cortez Masto.

The Inflation Reduction Act allows the government to negotiate drug prices and caps prescription drug costs through the Medicare program.

Republican senators who voted to ban abortion nationwide have changed their tune as their positions on the issue threaten their midterm election prospects.

The Senate Leadership Fund and the Congressional Leadership Fund, which are reportedly aligned with Sen. Mitch McConnell and Rep. Kevin McCarthy, are lying about the Inflation Reduction Act.

President Joe Biden attended a remembrance ceremony at the Pentagon, while Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to New York and First Lady Jill Biden stopped in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Forty-three million Americans owe money on federal student loans.

The Senate minority leader once scolded Democrats for not taking the nonexistent issue seriously enough.

Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would help millions of military veterans sickened by exposure to toxic burn pits.

Sen. Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans continue efforts to block President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.