Lawmaking does not just mean passing bills and creating new laws. It also means oversight and accountability, as well as ...

Explore the U.S. bicameral legislature, its structure with the House of Representatives and Senate, and the historical ...

Checks and balances are essential to our representative democracy. Under our system of government, the legislative, executive and judicial branches provide balance and prevent each other from growing ...

Ten House Republicans joined most Democrats on Thursday in sinking GOP-led legislation to fund the legislative branch for fiscal 2025, throwing an embarrassing wrench in GOP leadership’s ambitious ...

When the Founding Fathers wrote the U.S. Constitution, they envisioned three distinct branches of government; legislative, executive and judiciary. These were balanced with numerous checks and ...

The House Appropriations Committee advanced a draft fiscal 2026 Legislative Branch spending bill on Thursday that would slash the budget for the Government Accountability Office by nearly half and ...

The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday night reinstated language in the fiscal 2025 Legislative Branch spending bill blocking a cost-of-living adjustment for members of Congress, which they’ve ...

Following the resounding election victory of Donald Trump this week and the retaking of the U.S. Senate by the Republican Party, retirement and tax policy could be significantly impacted following the ...

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear signs an executive order rescinding the state’s Medicaid work requirements proposed by former Gov. Matt Bevin during a press conference at the Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., ...

Chicago aldermen came together to engage in the city’s budget process and assert their authority as a co-equal branch of government.