There's a popular mantra among skeptics of government power that goes like this: If a law is named after a person, it's probably bad. Usually pegged to a

Progressive congressional staffers withdrew their 32-hour week proposal just a day after receiving widespread blowback from both sides of the aisle about the plan.  “The letter failed to make two

A G.O.P. measure to deport immigrants accused of minor crimes has spotlighted a divide among Democrats over how to position themselves on immigration, with some already shifting to the right.

Progressive staffers on Capitol Hill are proposing an idea to shorten their workweek to 32 hours. The Congressional Progressive Staff Association sent a letter to leaders of the House and Senate,

The House passed the Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act, with 61 Democrats voting in support of the bill.

More Senate Democrats have indicated they plan to vote to advance the Laken Riley Act in a procedural vote this Friday. The bill — which is named for the Georgia nursing student who was killed by an immigrant from Venezuela who crossed the border illegally — cleared the House on Tuesday with support from all…

U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres renewed his call for federal and state investigations into Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration over allegations of bid-rigging in awarding a $9 billion Medicaid home care contract to Public Partnerships LLC (PPL). The contract oversees a program serving 280,000 elderly and disabled residents.

Democrats aren’t very good at learning lessons. But there are some things even they can figure out. One lesson that seems to have sunk in for most of the party’s elected officials is that its insane immigration positions were a giant self-inflicted wound that sank them at the polls in 2024.

The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed its first major piece of legislation of the new Congress, the Laken Riley Act, to mandate immigration officials detain illegal immigrants who

"There are syringes everywhere, because you have drug addicts injecting themselves with fentanyl in the presence of every day people, and it's unacceptable," Congressman Ritchie Torres said.

The Laken Riley Act, named for a Georgia nursing student killed by an illegal immigrant, is heading to the Senate as the GOP prioritizes border security.

US Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY) announced on Wednesday that he intends to vote in Congress for sanctions against the International Criminal Court after it issued arrest warrants for ...