Carolyn Cook was born in Brooklyn on Jan. 5, 1944, the middle child in a blue-collar, working-class family. She had hoped for ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke for 8 hours and 44 minutes on Thursday, delaying final passage of Republicans' ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., left, speaks in the House chamber prior to the final vote for President Donald ...

Representative Mike Lawler, who is in a swing district, seemed unbothered by the potential consequences of his admission.

House Republicans on Thursday passed Donald Trump’s sweeping, 887-page budget bill, an unpopular piece of legislation that is ...

Three months after Sen. Cory Booker broke his chamber's record for the longest speech ever, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries broke the House's record.

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke for 8 hours and 44 minutes in denouncing President Trump's bill, a record length for a speech in the House of Representatives.

President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" again passed the GOP-controlled House of Representatives after a marathon few ...

The speech pushed a final vote on Republican President Donald Trump’s tax bill, initially expected in the early morning, into ...

President Trump is scheduled to sign the bill into law at 5 p.m. on July 4 at the White House, locking in tax reductions and Medicaid cuts.