The Latest Breaking News from Capitol

Former Vice President Mike Pence filed paperwork on Monday declaring his campaign for president in 2024, setting up a challenge to his former boss, Donald Trump, just two years after their time in the White House ended with an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and Pence fleeing for his life.

Greene now opposes releasing January 6 footage, more widely claiming it will endanger Capitol security and lawful protesters, after giving ‘unfettered access’ to select right-wing media

The U.S. Capitol Complex "was briefly placed on an elevated alert" as authorities scrambled to respond, police said.

Greene now opposes releasing January 6 footage, more widely claiming it will endanger Capitol security and lawful protesters, after giving ‘unfettered access’ to select right-wing media

Video of a youth children’s choir being cut off as it was singing the “Star-Spangled Banner” in the U.S. Capitol has spread widely on social media

On DC’s ‘Freedom Corner’, activists are convinced the January 6 attackers are political prisoners persecuted by the government

A Florida man who stormed the U.S. Capitol with other members of the far-right Oath Keepers group was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other charges — the latest in a historic string of sentences in the Jan. 6

CQ Roll Call’s photojournalists caught all the action this week as both chambers worked to pass the debt limit bill.

Proposals to improve energy efficiency failed. Bills that sought to limit greenhouse gas emissions in Texas were ignored, and legislation to block cities from taking action on climate change passed.

Perhaps most critical to locking up the debt-limit deal were President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s five handpicked negotiators, three men and two women unknown to most outside government

State workers acting on Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' orders have raised the gay pride flag over the Wisconsin Capitol in a sign of support for the LGBTQ+ community amid attacks from conservative lawmakers across the country