Which Senators Missed the Most Votes in ‘Exhausting’ Record Year
The Senate just wrapped up its busiest year of votes since Gerald Ford was president — but only three senators showed up for every one.
The Senate just wrapped up its busiest year of votes since Gerald Ford was president — but only three senators showed up for every one.
President Donald Trump is engraving his legacy on Washington the same way he did in New York — putting his name on everything from savings accounts to Navy ships.

The president worked phones, a senator threatened to jam up his chamber, and a new player in lobbying blitzed the capital to win recognition for the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.
In this video, we look at how the current budgeting process is supposed to work and the way it actually plays out most of the time, and try to answer why it's so hard for the federal government to fulfill one of its most basic functions: funding itself on time.
Republicans have railed against the Affordable Care Act for more than 15 years, but they’re still struggling to agree on their own solutions for an issue that affects all voters — and carries significant political weight.
Large dollar amounts, constitutional questions, and corporate responsibility are at the center of several False Claims Act lawsuits that courts will address in 2026.
Florida, Virginia, and the US Supreme Court are top battlegrounds for mid-decade redistricting in 2026, as President Donald Trump’s drive to squeeze out more Republican-leaning House seats sputters.
Federal energy policy did a 180 this year thanks to Washington’s Republican trifecta of President Donald Trump and a GOP-controlled House and Senate—and those changes bolstered an already-powerful US oil and gas industry.
The accounting industry faces new recruitment hurdles as states advance education reforms meant to ease access to careers in the field.
A crack in the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc emerged as the justices refused to lift a temporary order preventing President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops in Chicago.
A district court denied a request by premium cigar manufacturers to block a California law requiring tobacco products to be listed on an approved roster before they can be sold.
President Trump didn’t exceed his authority by imposing a $100,000 charge on new H-1B workers hired from outside the US, a federal judge in Washington found in a significant win for the administration’s claims to nearly unfettered authority to restrict entry to the US.
The US Justice Department released another tranche of files related to
An Oklahoma couple can’t sue state officials for allegedly violating their civil rights by denying Medicaid applications on the basis that they exceeded the financial eligibility cap, a federal appeals court said Tuesday.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) warned congressional Republicans they must push President Donald Trump’s agenda forward or risk losing their control of government.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) warned congressional Republicans they must push President Donald Trump’s agenda forward or risk losing their control of government.
The Defense Department and other national security programs would be authorized to receive $900.6 billion under the House amendment to
Most military construction work is concentrated in districts that support defense readiness in the Indo-Pacific region, according to Bloomberg Government analysis.
A scaled-back kids’ online safety bill will be scrutinized in a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee Tuesday, diverging from the leading Senate proposal on the hot-button issue.
Florida, Virginia, and the US Supreme Court are top battlegrounds for mid-decade redistricting in 2026, as President Donald Trump’s drive to squeeze out more Republican-leaning House seats sputters.
The accounting industry faces new recruitment hurdles as states advance education reforms meant to ease access to careers in the field.
States face a tough choice in the year ahead: pile onto US tax bills looming for thousands of student loan borrowers whose debts are forgiven under an income-driven repayment plan, or forgo much-needed revenue.
A district court denied a request by premium cigar manufacturers to block a California law requiring tobacco products to be listed on an approved roster before they can be sold.
New York’s “Green Light Law,” restricting the sharing of driver’s records with federal immigration authorities and allowing for driver’s licenses to be issued without inquiring about immigration status, can stand after a district court dismissed a Trump administration challenge Tuesday.
A federal judge correctly invalidated the leases of a private school and an oil drilling well on the US Department of Veterans Affairs’ Los Angeles campus, but was wrong to touch the lease for UCLA’s baseball stadium, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled.