“We have an opportunity here today to do something that the public has wanted us to do for decades, and that is to ban ...

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.

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

The federal budget deficits caused by President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law could trigger automatic cuts to Medicare ...

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

Congress has taken an historic step toward regulating cryptocurrency, with the House passing the GENIUS Act following days of political drama. This bill is the first major crypto legislation ever ...

Congress rarely uses the Congressional Review Act to disapprove of federal agency rules. When it does, reporters call the CRA “obscure” and argue Congress is “pushing the bounds of a little-known ...

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 ...