Whip

Hours after President Trump was impeached for the second time, his successor Joe Biden said after the vote that he hoped the Senate will be able to juggle its role in the process along with its oth…

Nixon didn't even manage it once.

The representative from Colorado, first elected in 1996, spent 14 years as the Democrats' chief deputy whip and often holds the gavel in the House.

WASHINGTON — President Trump's impeachment trial won't be heard in the Senate until after he has already left office and Joe Biden is president, a spokesman for Senate Majority Le…

The Republican leaders' split on impeachment presages a bigger battle over Trump and the GOP.

Sen. Mitch McConnell has concluded that President Donald Trump committed impeachable offenses and believes that Democrats' move to impeach him will make it easier to purge Trump from the party, acc…

Multiple House Republicans announced Tuesday evening they would support the impeachment of President Donald Trump for his role inciting last week's riot as congressional Republicans made their clearest break with Trump to date after he showed no remorse for the US Capitol mob.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi named nine members of her caucus to be impeachment managers to argue the Democrats' case in the Senate once the article of impeachment is sent to the chamber. The House is expected to vote on impeaching President Donald Trump on Wednesday.

US Democrats said Sunday they would push to remove President Donald Trump from office during the final days of his administration after his supporters' violent attack on the Capitol, with some Republicans supporting the move. Trump could face a historic second impeachment before the January 20 inaug...

Determined to defy the coronavirus, the South Dakota Legislature will convene for its 96th session on Tuesday in Pierre, where lawmakers will settle a state budget flush with one-time money from federal coronavirus funds, as well as figure what to make of voter-initiated measures to legalize both medical and recreational marijuana. But the biggest challenge for lawmakers may be in carrying out their duties while…

Taping as he does in the mid-afternoon, Stephen Colbert was ideally suited to get a couple of United States lawmakers on the horn right in the aftermath of Wednesday's coup attempt by right-wing terrorists. Yes, that is a sentence we have to write, now and forever, as Donald Trump and his Republican enablers in Congress (Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Marsha Blackburn, others who are about to find out what "ignominy" means…

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell urged fellow Republicans on Wednesday to abandon their effort to overrule President-elect Joe Biden's election triumph, directly rebuking defeated President Donald Trump and asserting that the GOP drive threatened the country's democratic foundations. "The voters, the courts and the states have all spoken,"

"The 2020 election is over," said a statement Sunday from a bipartisan group of senators.

The effort, the latest among dozens of Republican attempts to overturn Trump's loss, is unlikely to alter the electoral college tally, which Biden won 306-232.

Gohmert's new brief contends that the Constitution effectively makes Pence the sole arbiter of which electoral votes to count during the Jan. 6 session of Congress to certify the election.

William Cohen, a former Republican senator from Maine and Defense secretary under forme...

The President signed the massive spending and stimulus package Sunday night, bringing Washington back from brink of what may have been a weeks-long government shutdown and potentially months of more pain for millions of Americans who need expanded unemployment benefits, small business loans, a federal eviction moratorium and direct checks.

President Trump's final weeks in office are creating chaos for Congress, which will return next w...

The numbers suggest enormous enthusiasm from Democrats ahead of the consequential Jan. 5 Senate runoffs in Georgia.

House Republicans broke with the president over providing $2,000 in stimulus checks to Americans.