The Montana House came in at 9 a.m. Wednesday for a full day of debate – but there was only one bill on the agenda.

NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey, a long serving New York Democrat who was the first woman to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee, has died. She was 87. Lowey’s family ...

House Democrats who spoke to TPM on Tuesday were stunned and floored by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) raising the ...

The Idaho Legislature’s powerful budget committee redrafted two failed budgets on Wednesday afternoon and sent signals that a ...

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Republicans in Congress have zeroed in on federal judges unilaterally blocking key Trump executive orders on immigration and government reform. The Constitution gives Congress the right to delineate ...

Idaho Legislature Budget and Policy Analyst France Lippett gives a presentation to the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee ... House members disagree with Joint Rule 11, which states that ...

President Trump is on a collision course with Republican defense hawks over the question of whether the United States ... Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and House Armed Services ...

When the Senate on Friday passed a continuing resolution to avoid a federal shutdown, it also appeared to give the Trump administration the authority to spend funds in a broader manner than in ...

Lieu, also a member of the House Judiciary Committee, told TPM that the United States is a democracy ... to speak with members of the House Appropriations Committee about the funding for the ...

A committee in the Idaho Legislature wants a state agency to study the impacts of a mandatory program to verify the legal ...