Long the most critical branch of the federal government, Congress has ceded much of its own institutional power. Here's how ...

Established by Article I of the Constitution, the Legislative Branch consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate, which together form the United States Congress. The Constitution grants ...

A House Appropriations subcommittee on Thursday advanced the fiscal 2025 Legislative Branch spending bill, which would provide $5.5 billion for House and joint items, a 3.5 percent increase from ...

The Utah Legislature, not content with passing laws, goes beyond the power granted it in the Utah Constitution by invading executive branch functions. Utah Constitution, Art. V, Sec. 1 states, “The ...

David Kurtz at TPM quotes from a government directory known as the "Plum Book," to which Cheney's office submitted this entry in lieu of a list of its employees, as federal agencies must do: The Vice ...

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday advanced, as amended, a $5.09 billion fiscal 2020 Legislative Branch spending bill that would continue a pay freeze for members of Congress. The issue ...

Cutting funding for the legislative branch makes Congress less competent and more reliant on special interests. As Congress writes spending bills that attempt to implement the first year of its budget ...

House Republicans passed legislation Wednesday to fund the legislative branch for fiscal 2024, as the party works to pass its remaining spending bills before a looming Nov. 17 shutdown deadline. House ...

Gov. Pat McCrory and two of his predecessors have sued the General Assembly to stop a newly created Coal Ash Management Commission and others like it from taking over executive branch functions. The ...

Only the legislative branch can sue a presidential administration for making changes to congressionally approved budgets, the federal appeals court in DC ruled after looking at President Donald ...

After a months-long standoff in Venezuela that included the Socialist-controlled Supreme Court overturning many of the opposition-controlled National Assembly's decisions, the court has explicitly ...