Congress

A reporter for the New York Post attempted to gain entrance to some of New York City’s finest restaurants while wearing shorts and a hoodie, only to be turned away at the door by each establishment. The reason for his experiment: he was wearing attire that Sen. John Fetterman (D–Pa.) has made famous (or infamous) in our nation’s capital. The senator’s preferred clothing generated national headlines a few days ago when Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that he was relaxing the Senate’s longstanding dress code requirement that its members wear a suit on the floor.

Nothing in the Bible expressly denies or confirms the existence of intelligent life beyond the borders of our planet. God knows, since if such life does exist he would have been the one to create it. However, it’s simply not a question that he cared to answer. That said, just for today I’d like us to pretend that it matters.

The U.S. Senate has approved legislation that suspends the trillion-dollar debt ceiling while also slashing federal spending.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy officially took his role Saturday after a round of failed votes to elect him to the speaker spot.

The 118th U.S. Congress has more Baptists than any other Protestant denomination, according to a Pew Research analysis.

The House of Representatives failed to elect a House speaker for the second day and adjourned without a decision.

House Democrats this week blocked an amendment to a same-sex marriage bill that would have added religious liberty protections for Christians and people of other religions who believe marriage is the union of one man, one woman.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced on Thursday that she will step down and not seek a Democratic leadership role in the upcoming Congress.

Congressional inaction is a great danger that places stress on our system of government. When Congress twiddles its thumbs, the Supreme Court exercises growing power in American life, and the president issues executive orders, which get immediately overturned when a new party comes into power. Meanwhile, the bloated federal bureaucracy enacts onerous regulation after onerous regulation with little pushback from Congress.

A video of an exchange between U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson and an abortion rights advocate has gone viral after she declined to answer if she opposes late-term abortion, including an abortion in the final minutes of a woman's term.