Tag: Capitol Hill

Charles Ray Gibbs drives an old tractor along a fence at Gibbs Farm in 2024.

Rural America is consequential in the congressional midterm elections

Brooke Taylor · June 3, 2026 8:00 am

A tan row-house that was home to Albrecht Muth, 47, and Viola Drath, 91, a German journalist and socialite, in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington (Feb. 23, 2012, file photo). Muth, charged with killing his socialite wife in Washington's fashionable Georgetown neighborhood remains mentally incompetent to stand trial. That's the assessment of doctors who interviewed Albrecht Muth last week. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Beltway Confidential

DC’s Historic Preservation Review Board is making housing unaffordable

Hershey Hackberry · June 1, 2026 12:01 pm

Mike Johnson and John Thune.

Congress comes back to a long post-Memorial Day to-do list

Lauren Green · June 1, 2026 5:00 am

Rep. Tom Kean, R-N.J., listens during a Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs about Belarus on Capitol Hill, Dec. 5, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, file)

New Jersey’s Tom Kean hasn’t voted in Congress since March. He’s about to be renominated

Hailey Bullis · May 31, 2026 6:00 am

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA)

Mike Johnson’s chief of staff to leave the speaker’s office

Lauren Green · May 29, 2026 1:37 pm

Texas retiring members

Texas set to lose clout in Congress next year after retirements and primary losses

Lauren Green · May 29, 2026 7:00 am

Rep. Thomas Kean Jr. (R-NJ).

No-show Congress: Weekend at Bernie’s moves to Capitol Hill

Jay Rogers · May 21, 2026 10:00 am

Screen grab of Babydog and Sen. Jim Justice (R-WX). (Credit: @Babydog/X)

‘Babydog Justice’ back from surgery and feeling ‘paws-atively better’

Britta Miller · May 20, 2026 3:20 pm

U.S. Capitol Police officer patrols outside of Capitol with a K9 on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026

Congress moves to raise Capitol Police retirement age

Rena Rowe · May 15, 2026 11:15 am

Rep. Frederica Wilson, (D-FL)

Florida Democrat cites surgery recovery for weekslong House absence

Hailey Bullis · May 14, 2026 7:33 pm

Teresa Leger Fernandez and Kat Cammack.

Teresa Leger Fernandez and Kat Cammack to launch task force against sexual harassment

Lauren Green · May 13, 2026 1:08 pm

Rep. Jen Kiggans and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries

Jeffries condemns Virginia Republican over agreement with ‘cotton-picking’ remark

Hailey Bullis · May 12, 2026 12:29 pm