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 ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Rules and ...

Senate appropriators approved their fiscal 2026 Legislative Branch bill Thursday, which would boost spending for Congress by roughly 5 percent and avoid cuts to the Government Accountability Office.

The Department of Government Efficiency sought to assign a team of staffers to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, but the watchdog privately rejected those efforts, arguing that the ...

The House Appropriations Committee advanced a draft fiscal 2026 Legislative Branch spending bill on Thursday that would slash the budget for the Government Accountability Office by nearly half and ...

If she has anything to say about it, there is no alternate reality where Faye Cobb would be doing anything other than what she’s doing right now as a behind-the-scenes funding negotiator for House ...

Donald Trump’s administration is attempting a hostile takeover of the Library of Congress — an agency that is part of the legislative branch and functions as its research arm in addition to ...

President Donald Trump's effort to exert control over the Library of Congress by firing its leaders could give him an unprecedented amount of leverage over the legislative branch of government. Can ...

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