Richard Durbin

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., speaks during the 2024 Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago in August.

Former Rep. Anthony Brindisi, D-N.Y., arrives for a hearing when he was in office in 2019.

Senate Judiciary Chair Richard J. Durbin says Congress will have to wield its appropriations, oversight and legislative power if faced with a corrupt presidency.

Before next week’s Democratic convention, the Tribune followed up with two volunteers from 1996 when Chicago last was host.

Richard M. Daley, the mayor who brought political conventions back to Chicago after 1968, taking on a different role this time around.

WASHINGTON — Senators have asked whether the Secret Service needs more funding in the wake of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, which appears to have contributed to the delay on a Homeland Security spending bill.

Harris is largely expected to continue many of President Joe Biden’s foreign policy initiatives, with a couple of possible differences.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks Wednesday to a joint meeting of Congress in the Capitol. In the back are Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md.

A bicameral and bipartisan bloc of 20 members of Congress is urging Armed Services leaders to write a final NDAA that provides more financial help for U.S. troops who have low incomes and often suffer food insecurity. The group of lawmakers, in a Monday letter, called for an NDAA that rewrites the eligibility rules for […] The post Lawmakers urge expanded ‘basic needs allowance’ for troops appeared first on Roll Call.