Senate Democrats are refusing to embrace House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's rhetoric denouncing border walls as an "immorality," but they are being careful to avoid undercutting her new role as the party's leader in the shutdown standoff. Published January 17, 2019
The House will try again next week to pass a stopgap funding bill members had initially approved by voice vote Thursday, after Republicans said Democrats didn't give them a chance to ask for a recorded vote. Published January 17, 2019
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Wednesday was sworn in for his second term in office, calling for a repudiation of the kind of "debilitating" politics plaguing Washington, D.C., and holding up politicians like former President George H.W. Bush and Sen. John McCain as models to emulate. Published January 16, 2019
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Wednesday was sworn in for his second term in office, calling for a repudiation of the kinds of "debilitating" politics plaguing Washington and holding up Republican politicians such as the late former President George H.W. Bush and the late Sen. John McCain as models to emulate. Published January 16, 2019
After failing last year to break up the Democratic supermajorities in the Maryland House and Senate, Republicans are bracing for a potentially tough 2019 legislative session — while also making clear that they're not content to sit on their hands. Published January 15, 2019
Having spent his first four years dialing back the tax and spending increases of his Democratic predecessor, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan will kick off his second term this week looking to make big changes to the way politics are done in the state. Published January 14, 2019
Even if the wall debate is resolved, it's not necessarily the end of the shutdown that has gone well into its fourth week. Published January 13, 2019
The House on Friday passed another spending bill that would reopen parts of the federal government, including the Interior Department, Environmental Protection Agency and national parks. Published January 11, 2019
The House on Thursday passed two more bills to re-open shuttered federal agencies that would provide full-year funding for programs dealing with agriculture, transportation, and housing as the partial government shutdown closes in on entering its fourth week. Published January 10, 2019
Republican mavericks declared defeat Thursday on their attempt to cobble together an immigration grand bargain to end the government shutdown after neither the White House nor Democratic leaders leaped at the idea of trading wall money for citizenship rights for "Dreamers," immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children. Published January 10, 2019
The House on Wednesday passed a $24 billion spending bill that funds the IRS and other agencies affected by the partial government shutdown through Sept. 30, as Democrats look to flex their new majority to put pressure on congressional Republicans amid the ongoing standoff. Published January 9, 2019
President Trump walked out of shutdown negotiations with Democratic leaders Wednesday after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to agree to any money for his border fence, ending the most contentious meeting yet in the 19-day-old government shutdown with no solution in sight. Published January 9, 2019
Congressional Democrats on Wednesday said President Trump's Oval Office address Tuesday evening did little to move the ball forward on ending a partial shutdown of the federal government and that Mr. Trump needs to back off his demands for a U.S.-Mexico border wall. Published January 9, 2019
Democrats haven't expelled the Constitution from the floor of the House, but they have put off what had become a semiannual rite of having members convene a new Congress by reading the founding document on the chamber floor. Published January 8, 2019
President George W. Bush flexed the National Emergencies Act in the days after the 2001 terrorist attacks, President Jimmy Carter used it during the Iranian hostage crisis, and President Barack Obama tapped it to handle the swine flu pandemic in 2009. Now it's President Trump who is eyeing the 1976 law. Published January 8, 2019
Congressional Democrats on Tuesday announced new legislation to expand gun-purchase background checks to cover online and private sales, looking to push the gun issue early in the new Congress after taking control of the House. Published January 8, 2019
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer said Tuesday he does not believe President Trump has the authority to invoke emergency powers to secure funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall -- something Mr. Trump says he's considering amid the ongoing partial shutdown of the federal government. Published January 8, 2019
The IRS will send out tax refunds during the government shutdown, the Trump administration said Monday. "Tax refunds will go out," said Russell Vought, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget. Published January 7, 2019
President Trump said Sunday that he is considering declaring border security a national emergency and triggering presidential powers that would allow him to assign the military to build his border wall, and he promised a decision based on how shutdown negotiations go. Published January 6, 2019
The White House and key lawmakers said Sunday that they don't foresee a quick end to a partial government shutdown that has now entered its third week, with both sides unwilling to budge in a standoff over money for President Trump's desired U.S.-Mexico border wall. Published January 6, 2019
