Maryland’s longest serving member of Congress won’t seek reelection after having spent two decades as the No. 2 House Democrat.

Maryland’s longest serving member of Congress won’t seek reelection after having spent two decades as the No. 2 House Democrat.

House Republicans continue to hide a plaque honoring the police who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, almost three years after a law passed requiring its display.

Retirements, resignations and tough elections could cut into their growing numbers from recent elections.

Barbara Rose Johns was only 16 when she led a walkout in 1951 to protest horrendous conditions at her segregated high school for Black students in rural Farmville, Virginia.

An updated Pew study shows that, with the change in administrations and party power in Congress, Democrats are now at record levels of anger toward government.

The sixth year of a presidency typically produces brutal results for his party in Senate races, but everything about Trump is unconventional.

The Democrat spent eight years in the wilderness of House minority, but her Trump clashes returned her to icon status.

Veterans of shutdowns of the past 30 years say there’s little passion, among lawmakers and constituents, over this shutdown.

In this 1977 SNL sketch, Dan Aykroyd’s Jimmy Carter takes a live call from a teenager tripping on LSD—and calmly walks him through it like a seasoned psychonaut.The sketch aired during Season 2 and captured the hilarious intersection of politics, parody, and psychedelic panic. Long before “harm reduction” was part of the cultural lexicon, Carter’s character offers grounded, compassionate advice to the distressed caller.And to top it off, the President displayed an impeccable taste in southern psychedelic rock.Source: Saturday Night Live.

More Americans blame Trump and Republicans than Democrats for shutdown, poll finds.