Congress

Here’s a breakdown of the seating chart in the gallery and where all the major players in Washington, D.C. will sit.

President Joe Biden met with the Congressional Black Caucus on Thursday to discuss police reform and pledged “to stay at it as long as it takes.” The CBC requested the meeting following the brutal death of Tyre Nichols — and is pushing the president to reignite reform efforts during his State of the Union address next Tuesday. NBC’s Brie Jackson...

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have left a meeting with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris with an agreement on how to address the issue of policing in America after the recent killing of Tyre Nichols.

The 218-211 vote, along party lines, came after a heated, voices-raised debate in which Democrats accused the GOP of targeting Omar based on her race.

The House speaker arrived for the afternoon session carrying no formal GOP budget proposal, but he is laden with the promises he made to far-right and other conservative Republican lawmakers during his difficult campaign to become House speaker.

Embattled Rep. George Santos won’t accept key congressional committee assignments amid ongoing ethics and campaign finance-related investigations, the Republican told colleagues — and his office confirmed — Tuesday.

A GOP bill approved Friday would require the government to offset any non-emergency withdrawals from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with new drilling on public lands and oceans.

A group of House Republicans is revisiting the Fair Tax Act, which would replace certain federal taxes with a national sales tax and decentralize the IRS.

A group of House Democrats announced Thursday they were forming the Congressional Dads Caucus to focus on family issues.

A similar bill was unveiled by other lawmakers in the House and Senate in the last Congress, but it was not considered in either chamber.

Rep. George Santos made a significant revision to his 2022 campaign filings Tuesday by specifying that a $500,000 loan he made to the campaign didn’t come from his personal funds.

A U.S. congressman from Florida who was seriously injured in a tree-trimming accident in Sarasota says he has been discharged from the hospital and is recovering at home.

The U.S. government reached the nation’s legal borrowing limit on Thursday, forcing the Treasury Department to resort to “extraordinary measures” to avoid a default.

U.S. Rep. Greg Steube’s office didn’t share any details on his injuries or how serious they were.

Economists say consequences of a default on the national debt could include higher interest rates, a stock market crash, a recession and massive job losses. NBC’s Alice Barr reports.

The latest controversy around embattled Rep, George Santos involves a dying dog and a GoFundMe campaign.

U.S. Capitol Police investigated 7,501 threats against members of Congress in 2022, according to new figures released Tuesday.

New York Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-15) on Tuesday called upon the Federal Election Commission to investigate George Santos. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has notified Congress that the U.S. is projected to reach its debt limit on Thursday and will then resort to “extraordinary measures” to avoid default.

Slamming the coverage of his travails as “media nonsense,” Rep. George Santos on Thursday defiantly insisted he had no plans to resign from Congress.