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Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., conducts a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Speaker Mike Johnson conducts a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center after a House Republican Conference meeting on Tuesday. Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., left, and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise also appear.

Demonstrators hold signs during a protest outside the U.S. embassy in Warsaw, Poland, on March 3, 2025. (NurPhoto/ Contributor/GettyImages)

Linda McMahon testifies during her confirmation hearing in February. The Senate voted Monday to confirm her nomination as Education secretary. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell will end his Senate career with his most indelible mark on the nation’s federal courts and the chamber’s judicial confirmation process, a priority that changed the chamber’s rules and solidified a conservative Supreme Court for the foreseeable future.

Staffers carry pizzas from We, The Pizza across the windy and frigid East Front plaza into the Capitol for the budget votes on Thursday night.

FBI director nominee Kash Patel arrives to testify at his confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee last month.

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., arrives in the Capitol Wednesday. He was the only Republican to vote against confirmation of Tulsi Gabbard to be director of national intelligence.

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., hold a media availability Tuesday in the Capitol on “legislative proposals to fight the chaos of the Trump Administration."

Collins is seen during his confirmation hearing last month.

WASHINGTON — House lawmakers return to Washington this week, where the primary question will be whether Budget Committee Republicans can come to an agreement to mark up a budget resolution that gets the ball rolling on the budget reconciliation process needed to advance President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. Given the pace of Congress, it could be hard for them to keep up with the speed ...

Elon Musk arrives for the inauguration of President Donald Trump in the Capitol Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20.

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters Sunday after arriving at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said his stomach turned while watching President Trump "spew up conspiracy theories" over the deadly collision of a military helicopter and commercial plane near Washington's Reagan National Airport.

Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. House Republicans retreated to Miami this week to work on finalizing their legislative agenda, while senators remained in Washington for hearings and votes on [...]The post At the Races: Democrats take a stand appeared first on Roll Call.

Senate Budget Committee Democrats hold a media availability in protest of the committee advancing Russ Vought’s nomination to be director of the Office of Management and Budget on Thursday. From left are Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va.

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, announced an Inspector Generals Caucus less than two weeks ago.

Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., spent much of the last Congress reinvestigating the Jan. 6 mob attack on the Capitol. Now top Republicans announced a plan to keep his effort going.

President-elect Donald Trump speaks to reporters at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Jan. 7. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., on Tuesday.

Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. Congress’ first bill of the year could foreshadow how much political reality may affect the thinking of Senate Democrats. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, [...]The post Immigration politics hit the Hill appeared first on Roll Call.

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, like Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand a New Yorker, on Monday appointed Gillibrand to chair the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Trump rioters take over the steps of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as Congress meets to certify the Electoral College votes.

New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand raises her right hand during her ceremonial swearing-in in the Old Senate Chamber on Friday.

The new Congress opened for business Friday, and that meant a series of changes for the lawmakers who represent Western New York. Most notably, Sen. Charles E. Schumer, a New York Democrat, will no longer serve as Senate majority leader.

Former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter are seen during the Inauguration of George W. Bush in 2001. (CQ Roll Call file photo)

House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to reporters after the House Republican Conference meeting Friday on the plan to fund the government and avert a shutdown.

Birds fly across the White House grounds on Dec. 10. Tipsters have reported drone sightings over New Jersey and other states recently. (Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

Just how tight was the battle for control of the House? Well, consider that if just three additional races had broken in Democrats’ favor, we would have had to wait for nearly a month on vote counting in California to determine which party had won the majority. And if that had happened, we might still [...]The post At the Races: Full House appeared first on Roll Call.

The tight margins in Congress will likely complicate matters for President-elect Donald Trump's agenda.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is seen in the Capitol on Sept. 18.

Airplanes fly past the Washington Monument during the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association DC Flyover on May 11.

Howard Lutnick, left, with President-elect Donald Trump in Michigan in October.

Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., who is retiring at the end of this Congress, said the farm bill text released Monday is "my vision."

Sen. Marco Rubio is calling hypocrisy after he claims Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer is icing out Pennsylvania Senator-elect Dave McCormick from the Senate orientation later this week since his Democratic opponent still hasn't conceded.

For Schumer, the only mystery remaining as of Wednesday morning was the size of the minority he would lead – and the early signs were that it would be smaller than expected.

Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford is pictured in the Capitol during votes on July 31. Lankford on Tuesday blocked a resolution expressing a sense of the Senate that every patient should have the right to emergency health care, including abortion, regardless of where they live, saying that “there is no state in America where a woman faces prosecution for having an abortion.”

Members of Congress have been scrutinizing the budget for the Secret Service in the aftermath of a shooting at a Trump rally in July in Butler, Pa.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., arrives for a House Democratic Caucus meeting in the Capitol Visitor Center on July 23.

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., leaves a news conference in the Capitol on Thursday.

People take pictures of the Wall Street bull in New York City in August. A proposal that advanced out of a Senate committee this summer would curb stock trading among members of Congress, but some fear it won’t see further movement.

A reporter prepares a question for President Joe Biden before he spoke with reporters Monday on the South Lawn of the White House about the latest assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer conducts a news conference after the Senate luncheons in the Capitol on Tuesday. He announced Thursday that the Senate will vote again on a legislative package that would establish a statutory right to IVF.

Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, talks with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on the third night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 17.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., seen after Senate luncheons in the U.S. Capitol on July 30, is looking ahead to his next act.

This week, tens of thousands of people are expected to travel to Chicago for the 2024 Democratic National Convention, where 5,000 delegates and alternates will gather to approve a party platform, and where Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov....

Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. From concerts to campaign cash, 2024 is shaping up as a test of the crypto industry’s political strength. On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Charles [...]The post At the Races: Crypto campaigning appeared first on Roll Call.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talks with reporters in the Capitol on June 28.

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said the vote was a step in "the most important update in decades to federal laws to protecting kids on the internet."

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said social media “can do a lot of good things, but it also can lead to serious health risks that we cannot ignore.”