Redistricting has given GOP incumbents a stronger grip on the vast majority of their seats, and Republican leaders aren’t willing to encourage promising female candidates to challenge incumbents.

Congress is providing $11 billion to prevent a 28 percent reduction in federal highway and mass transit spending at the peak of the summer construction season.

If political polarization is driven by the public, how can Congress be so much more polarized than the people?

Obama now faces the stark reality that little of what he hopes to accomplish in his remaining years in office will likely come to pass

Minnesota's 5th District representative handily wins elections, but his views are frequently out of sync with the chattering class inside the Beltway where he is often tolerated as a curiosity.

The Obama administration is warning states that cutbacks in federal aid will start as soon as the first week in August if lawmakers don’t act on the federal Highway Trust Fund.

When rivalry hardens into a sullen standoff — not a contest of ideas but a bloody-minded refusal to engage — you have a problem.

Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi is once again the wealthiest member of the leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives, reporting between $42.4 million to $199.5 million in asset together with her husband.

Virginia voters just nominated two men who are almost certain to go to Washington and never agree on anything.

Jim Oberstar’s accomplishments include facilitating hundreds of billions, perhaps more than $1 trillion, in transportation infrastructure funding over the last quarter century.