Lester Munson receives funding from the U.S. Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. He is affiliated with the Republican Party in the United States and worked in Congress for over 20 years. In ...

We explain what elected officials aren’t doing during the government shutdown. By Carl Hulse I’m The Times’s chief Washington correspondent. By almost any measure, Congress is failing. And flailing.

Formal reprimands, once rare, dominated the chamber’s agenda this week, prompting lawmakers in both parties to call for changes to the way the House handles such actions.

Democrats are talking to their voters who are desperate to fight. Republicans rarely reach beyond their base. And President Donald Trump, supposedly the world’s greatest dealmaker, is tuned out. This ...

Nancy Pelosi, the first and only female speaker of the US House of Representatives and one of the most powerful figures in Democratic politics for decades, has announced she will not seek reelection. ...