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The House is expected to vote next week on two bills aimed at preventing more attacks on the U.S. Capitol, with one seeking to establish a 9/11-style commission to study what went wrong on Jan. 6 and the other allocating $1.9 billion to address the security problems revealed by the insurrection.

House members announced a deal Friday on setting up a commission to study the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, agreeing to a panel with an even number of GOP and Democratic appointees and with shared subpoena powers.

After months of back and forth, members of the House announced plans Friday for a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

The Senate is considering the "For the People Act," which would ruin elections forever.

Rep. Liz Cheney told House Republicans in private on Wednesday that it's time to reject former President Donald Trump's big lie that he won the election because failing to do so will "make us complicit in his efforts to unravel our democracy."

In the 19th century, when political parties worried about voters who couldn't speak English or read campaign flyers, they adopted animal symbols. Despite...

The filibuster is a problem, but it's not the only problem.

An open letter by former officers calling the president a "Marxist" dictator is a greater threat to U.S. democracy than the ouster of Liz Cheney.

On the eve of her defenestration, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., gave a fiery speech on the House floor Tuesday night about the dangers of embracing Donald Trump's fascist coup-centric approach to politics. This article was originally published at Salon"I will not sit back and watch in silence while other...

The vote on Wednesday removed Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming as the chair of the House Republican Conference for her continued repudiation of former President Donald J. Trump's election lies. President Biden is set to meet with the top congressional leaders to discuss infrastructure.

To the extent that Americans are aware of them at all, the Anti-Federalists are remembered as a band of vaguely disreputable second-raters who failed to prevent the 1788 ratification of the US Constitution—a document that for many Americans has become, over the past two centuries, something approach...

We don't know exactly how things will go down at Wednesday's closed-door, secret-ballot House Republican Conference meeting. But we expect rank-and-file Republicans to vote late morning or midday to boot GOP Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., from her leadership post.

California is already set to allow college athletes to be compensated beginning in 2023, but a new push aims to make it happen sooner.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Republicans' lame-duck maneuver to weaken voter-proposed minimum wage and paid sick leave laws was unconstitutional, organizers of the ballot initiatives said in lawsuit filed Tuesday.

The Senate version of the For the People Act, an election reform bill Democrats say will combat restrictive voting laws, faces long odds of passage.

The Senate Rules Committee Tuesday advanced S.1, Democrats' sweeping election overhaul bill, to a full floor vote over unanimous Republican objections.

Bill expected to survive Senate Rules Committee, chaired by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, on party-line vote.

Ronald Reagan famously said, "the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.'" It seems more pertinent now than ever given the latest partisan attempt to federalize one of America's most sacred functions: our elections.

Republicans are preparing to launch an all-out assault on sweeping voting rights legislation, forcing Democrats to take dozens of politically difficult votes...

A pair of law professors argued in a recent Bloomberg column that packing the U.S. Supreme Court with 15 justices is a necessary move to reform the institution and does not constitute "court packing."