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House Republicans are looking at ways to avoid a debt default, including by exemption debt and entitlement payments from the debt ceiling once the ceiling is reached.

A first responder testifying about the Norfolk Southern toxic train derailment in Ohio says the decision to vent and burn five tank cars instead of one widened the “impact” area.

The House Ways and Means Committee will consider a bill on Thursday that would prioritize federal spending if the U.S. hits the debt ceiling later this year.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell fired back at Sen. Elizabeth Warren in a tense exchange Tuesday over the potential impact of the central bank's interest rate hikes.

Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee are expected to grill Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell in a Tuesday hearing on Capitol Hill.

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown is expected at Tuesday's hearing to criticize the Federal Reserve's continuous interest rate hikes.

Sen. Joe Manchin this week called on President Biden to release his budget proposal so that Congress can find a bipartisan compromise that will cut spending.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was the top recipient of political donations from BlackRock, a leading investment firm advocating for environmental, social and governance investing.

Two senators urged the Justice Department in a letter this week to continue investigating Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, for alleged anticompetitive conduct.

Sen. Maria Cantwell sent a letter to Southwest Airlines on Thursday, seeking a "full accounting" of how the airline is refunding customers after mass holiday cancellations.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz pushed acting Federal Aviation Administrator Billy Nolen on a near-miss collision between two planes at an airport in Austin, Texas, this month.

Federal lawmakers rallied with representatives from the American Federation of Government Employees union on Tuesday to demand Congress pass an 8.7% pay increase for government workers.

IRS commissioner nominee Daniel Werfel is expected to tell a Senate committee that if he gets the job, he will not increase audits on those making less than $400,000.

Sen. John Kennedy spoke Tuesday at the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on "Protecting Our Children Online," expressing concern about social media's effects on kids.

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has introduced a bill that would implement an age requirement for social media usage and another that would study the harmful impact of social media on children

President Biden's beleaguered nominee for the Federal Communications Commission once played a major role in tanking a bipartisan deal on the agency's low-income broadband program.

Southwest Airlines COO Andrew Watterson faced lawmakers at a hearing Thursday, where Southwest Airlines Pilots Association President Cpt. Casey Murray testified that company leadership "failed to listen" to frontline employees ahead of last December's operational meltdown.

The Healthy Homes and Residential Electrification Amendment Act of 2023 would use federal funding from the Inflation Reduction Act to help households earning less than $80,000 make the switch to electric.