President Donald Trump has given Vice President JD Vance some of the toughest assignments in the White House. His allies say it’s a sign of trust, but the political risk is high for the young ...

The U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday passed a bill to fund government agencies through the remainder of the fiscal year ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune has deputized a folksy Louisiana ... Since then, Kennedy said, he has asked Trump and Vice President JD Vance “point blank” to start thinking about a plan ...

The heartfelt question a Columbia Rotarian asked South Carolina’s senior senator about the tensions between Donald Trump and ...

House Republicans muscled a stopgap funding measure to passage over Democratic opposition Tuesday, sending the bill to the ...

House Republicans this week passed a government funding bill 217-213 without assistance from Democrats, losing only one vote from Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.

Johnson is often thought of as the accidental speaker. And it’s true that he was pulled out of quasi-obscurity after the caucus took down his predecessor Kevin McCarthy just 17 months ago. At the time ...

Emma O'Loughlen, a member of the Rapid City Youth Council and Rapid City Area Schools' student school board, shows a photo she took from the botanical gardens in the nation's capitol.

Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week. In addition to roll call votes this week, the ...

The Senate finds itself on Friday in a familiar position, working to avoid a partial government shutdown with just hours to ...