The 1973 law granted the city a greater degree of self-governance. It also allows the president to federalize D.C.'s police ...

After declaring a public safety emergency Aug. 11 in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump suggested that declaring a national emergency would let him bypass the law’s limits.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal budget deficits caused by President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law could trigger automatic ...

Calif., bans members of Congress and their spouses from trading and holding stocks. Pelosi, former Speaker of the House, has been criticized ...

President Trump on Monday announced he was taking federal control of D.C.’s police department and deploying the National ...

Far from being a new debate brought on by current events, the discussion over extending home rule to Washingtonians has been ...

And Congress passed the 1870 Enforcement Act to enforce the provision. In 1872, Congress passed the Amnesty Act, which removed the prohibition for most ex-Confederates.

It would take some doing, though — including, literally, an act of Congress. But the issue bubbled up again this week, the latest in the blizzard of initiatives that have surfaced since Trump ...

Lawyers for the Biden administration told the Supreme Court that it could cancel billions of dollars in student debt because Congress had given it that authority using the HEROES Act in 2003.

The Congressional Review Act enables Congress to review the work of the administrative state and, together with the President, expeditiously consider and reject any rule that an agency adopts ...