The 1973 law granted the city a greater degree of self-governance. It also allows the president to federalize D.C.'s police ...

After declaring a public safety emergency Aug. 11 in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump suggested that declaring a national emergency would let him bypass the law’s limits.

The federal budget deficits caused by President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law could trigger automatic cuts to Medicare ...

Far from being a new debate brought on by current events, the discussion over extending home rule to Washingtonians has been ...

Congress rarely uses the Congressional Review Act to disapprove of federal agency rules. When it does, reporters call the CRA “obscure” and argue Congress is “pushing the bounds of a little-known ...

While the congressional stock trading question has played out on Capitol Hill for years, the debate saw some renewed momentum this week. A bill sponsored by Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) has cleared the ...

And Congress passed the 1870 Enforcement Act to enforce the provision. In 1872, Congress passed the Amnesty Act, which removed the prohibition for most ex-Confederates.

It would take some doing, though — including, literally, an act of Congress. But the issue bubbled up again this week, the latest in the blizzard of initiatives that have surfaced since Trump ...