The Latest Breaking News from Tom Cole

Key pay-for proposed for reconciliation bill is riddled with political risks and could spur backlash from hospitals, health providers.

Committee staff director Jennifer Belair will soon become senior vice president of government affairs at lobbying firm Atlas Crossing.

President-elect Trump appears to have plenty of political power, but the calendar and congressional negotiations could quickly erode it.

Rep. Pete Sessions, who chaired the House Rules Committee from 2013 through 2018, wants to reclaim the gavel in the 119th Congress.

As they edge toward a House majority, Republicans welcome President-elect Donald Trump, tap familiar faces to lead caucus.

With two longtime appropriators facing tough reelection contests, upcoming elections could rejigger the influential spending panel’s roster.

The Senate on Wednesday cleared a 12-week spending bill that would kick this year’s spending tussle until after the November elections.

The leadership of both chambers are operating under very different assumptions about what lawmakers can accomplish in the lame-duck session.

The US Congress agreed on a short-term spending bill on Sunday that would fund federal agencies and infuse additional funds to the Secret Service, avoiding a government shutdown. The measure will be voted on this week but congressional leaders showed bipartisan support for a "bare-bones" bill that would avoid shutting…