This hasn’t been a good year for congressional authority. Consider Congress’ craven vote to claw back some $9 billion of funding it had previously allocated for foreign aid and public broadcasting.

Now, under Johnson's leadership, the House has changed its rules to make it even harder for lawmakers to signal their ...

The Supreme Court weighs separation of powers issues as Donald Trump defends his use of emergency law to bypass Congress on ...

Editor’s note: This editorial originally ran in fellow CNHI paper the Joplin, Missouri, Globe. Congress has been dropping the ball for years. It needs to reclaim its authority among the three branches ...

The U.S. Congress is set to vote on House Resolution 2550, a bill that would restore federal employee collective bargaining powers limited under Trump-era executive orders.

Money is power. In our system of government, that power was intended to rest squarely with Congress. Yet in recent years, we’ve seen presidents of both parties find ways to sidestep Congress’s “power ...

In June of 2025, President Donald J. Trump directed US aircraft to drop 30,000 pound bombs on nuclear facilities in Iran. Some legislators in Congress and some media complained that this was a ...

She said she knows Republicans are in the majority, but she’s alarmed that her GOP colleagues are not standing up more when ...

Russell Vought is the ultimate Trumper. The head of the Office of Management and Budget just anointed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to wind down the U.S. Agency for International Development ...

This hasn’t been a good year for congressional authority. Consider Congress’ craven vote to claw back some $9 billion of funding it had previously allocated for foreign aid and public broadcasting.

The removed portions of the Constitution include clauses that limit Congress' power to suspend habeas corpus and forbid titles of nobility in the United States Getty Images/Tetra images RF; Andrew ...