Two mass shootings within 24 hours over the weekend not only left more than 30 victims dead, but raised real questions whether the nation's political leaders could ever adequately address the crisis of gun violence.

Rep. Will Hurd's retirement announcement this week goes beyond the simple numbers--Hurd is the sixth Republican and the third from Texas to decline to seek re-election next year--the 41-year-old was seen both as a GOP rising star, and was the only black Republican in the House.

If Donald Trump thought his Twitter attack against Rep. Elijah Cummings will help him politically, he is wrong, according to a California Democrat.

While hundreds of House Democrats and much of official Washington is busy debating whether to open an impeachment proceeding against Donald Trump, one top member of the House Judiciary Committee says impeachment has functionally already begun.

With Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans unwilling to bring election security legislation to a vote, American democracy is at risk, according to independent experts.

While Nancy Pelosi remains unprepared to move forward immediately, her stance appears to have softened somewhat following Wednesday's day-long testimony by former special counsel Robert Mueller.

Former special counsel Robert Mueller's Wednesday testimony before Congress hopefully will be seen as the beginning of an overall impeachment proceeding--rather than the end of the investigation of Donald Trump. That's according to Rep Eric Swalwell of California.

Several leading House Democrats have introduced a new plan to deal with climate change and serve as an alternative to the so-called Green New Deal.

Having former special counsel Robert Mueller testify to Congress Wednesday after having already submitted a written report is a bit like how a novel often attracts a wider audience as a movie than as a book, according to a House Democrat.

Following the introduction of new IRS rules that would block state-government workarounds to state and local tax deduction caps enacted as part of last year's GOP tax law, Senate Democrats introduced a Congressional Review Act Resolution of Disapproval to nullify the recent IRS decision, restore states’ ability to work around the caps, and allow homeowners to again fully retain their SALT deduction.