Far from being a new debate brought on by current events, the discussion over extending home rule to Washingtonians has been ...

The Home Rule Act formed the roles of the city council and the mayor, and allowed D.C. to have some autonomy and pass its own ...

Calif., bans members of Congress and their spouses from trading and holding stocks. Pelosi, former Speaker of the House, has been criticized ...

The 1973 law granted the city a greater degree of self-governance. It also allows the president to federalize D.C.'s police force.

House and Senate Democrats on Friday introduced legislation that would end the Trump administration’s control of Washington’s ...

The statute does not require evidence or congressional approval — only a presidential declaration of emergency.

While the congressional stock trading question has played out on Capitol Hill for years, the debate saw some renewed momentum ...

President Trump on Monday announced he was taking federal control of D.C.’s police department and deploying the National Guard in the city in an attempt to fight crime. “Our capital city has been ...

President Trump said the White House will seek "long-term extensions" from Congress to maintain federal control of the D.C.

There's still a lot of work to be done on the floor in September. I'd like to see some hybrid consensus ideas go through,” Tim Brennan said.

The CREATE Act would renew and strengthen Section 181, a Bush era tax incentive that applies to the first $15 million in ...

New law prohibits unsolicited sale of mortgage applicant data by credit bureaus Homebuyers often bombarded by predatory ...