William Douglas

President Obama and congressional Republicans on Thursday escalated their war of words over the border crisis as lawmakers began considering the White House's $3.7 billion funding request to address the problem.

For many on the far political right, it’s high time to charge President Barack Obama with high crimes and misdemeanors.

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Thursday not to expect action soon from the Republican-controlled House of Representatives torevamp the nation’s immigration laws or repair the Voting Rights Act, which was weakened by a Supreme Court decision last year.

The United States considers Iran a top state sponsor of terrorism, a budding nuclear threat and a meddlesome supporter of President Bashar Assad’s regime in civil war-torn Syria.

House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday that he plans to sue President Barack Obama over what he perceives as presidential overreach of executive authority.

Lawmakers present and past fanned out across the network news shows Sunday morning and offered their views about the deadly attacks in　Iraq waged by Islamist militants. Here’s a roundup of some of the highlight:

House Speaker John Boehner sent a letter to President Barack Obama Friday urging him to deploy the National Guard to the Mexican border to aid in the ‘humanitarian crisis’ caused by a surge of unaccompanied minors trying to enter the United States illegally at the border.

For those who point to the deteriorating situation in Iraq as a harbinger of things to come in Afghanistan once the U.S. military presence is significantly downsized there, Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Carl Levin delivered a message Friday: Nonsense.

It was bash Obama Foreign Policy Thursday in the Senate as Republican lawmakers took turns on the chamber floor this morning thematically criticizing President Barack’s handling of international matters from the current eroding situation in Iraq to U.S. troop withdrawal in Afghanistan to efforts to shutter Guantanamo Bay.

President Barack Obama briefed top congressional leaders Wednesday on the administration’s plans to counter insurgents in Iraq, with the White House saying he’s only ruled out sending U.S. troops back into combat.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid blasted Republicans and former Vice President Dick Cheney Wednesday for blaming President Barack Obama for the deteriorating situation in Iraq.

When President Barack Obama meets with congressional leaders Wednesday about the deteriorating situation in Iraq, he’ll hear plenty of agreement that something must be done _ but little consensus about what that should be.

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a June 25 hearing on a long-stalled bill to repair the 1965 Voting Rights Act after the Supreme Court weakened the landmark civil rights legislation by weakening key provisions last year.

The son of a Bakersfield, Calif., firefighter, Rep. Kevin McCarthy has hauled plenty of political hose to get where he is now, seemingly perched on the edge of real power in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The race for House majority leader abruptly ended Thursday night when Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas, one of two Republicans seeking the post, dropped out.