U.S. Congress

Derek Tran, a consumer rights lawyer and Army veteran, defeated Representative Michelle Steel, a Republican two-term incumbent, flipping a seat in Orange County, Calif.

By Amy Qin

The agriculture and nutrition measure was last updated in 2018 and originally expired two years ago. Farmers fear the Trump administration’s priorities will eclipse theirs next year.

By Maya C. Miller

Donald Trump will try to fill every judgeship that Democrats leave open.

By The Editorial Board

After a brutal election, Democrats need to get better at talking about trans issues.

By Michelle Goldberg

The longest-serving Senate leader is relinquishing his post in the next Congress and planning to use his influence in ways that could put him at odds with President-elect Donald J. Trump.

By Catie Edmondson

Readers respond to a column by David Brooks. Also: Blaming the Green Party for a Democratic loss in the Senate race in Pennsylvania; a sitcom cabinet.

The once and future president’s constitutional gimmicks are embarrassingly transparent.

By David French

After eight years in the Senate as a moderate Democrat, he took a leftward turn toward “new populism” in a failed shot at the presidency in 1976.

By Robert D. McFadden

Some in the party are considering alternative ways of assessing the federal budget as they prepare to extend temporary tax cuts passed in 2017.

By Andrew Duehren

The second Trump administration appears likely to inherit broader powers to force American service providers to help a warrantless wiretapping program.

By Charlie Savage

Readers respond to an essay by Roxane Gay. Also: A Republican plan to bar a transgender member from the women’s bathroom; Matt Gaetz; Elon Musk’s cuts.

The Senate majority leader is staying out of Republican turmoil over the more contentious picks for strategic reasons.

By Carl Hulse

The Constitution is not a grant of power for a king.

By Jamelle Bouie

Lessons from a Democratic winner in Trump country.

By Michelle Goldberg

The rise of the Republican representative from Georgia signals the ascendancy of the MAGA wing of the G.O.P. in Congress.

By Annie Karni

Mr. McCormick, a Republican former hedge-fund executive, toppled Mr. Casey, a three-term Democrat, in one of the nation’s top Senate races and biggest 2024 upsets.

By Katie Glueck

Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for attorney general, faced what appeared to be long odds of securing the votes needed for confirmation in the Republican-controlled Senate.

By Tim Balk and Maya C. Miller

Since 1906, new members of Congress have drawn lots to choose their new homes on Capitol Hill. Staff and lawmakers often scout and strategize far in advance to find the best spaces.

By Maya C. Miller

Trump failed to push Republicans past their red line.

By Michelle Cottle

Mr. Gaetz has consistently denied the allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use, but his prospective nomination ran into trouble in the Senate.

By Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

Legisladores republicanos buscan impedir que Sarah McBride, primera integrante transgénero del Congreso, utilice los baños de mujeres del Capitolio.

By Annie Karni

Some Republican senators, who will consider his nomination to be defense secretary, shrugged off the accusations and defended him.

By Michael C. Bender

The vaunted chamber’s degradation preceded him. But he may trash it once and for all.

By Frank Bruni

Most Democrats opposed the measure, reversing their previous positions as they warned that President-elect Donald J. Trump could use it to punish nonprofit groups he saw as political antagonists.

By Karoun Demirjian

Impuestos atrasados, consumo de marihuana y niñeras indocumentadas descalificaron a anteriores elecciones presidenciales para altos cargos. Algunos de los candidatos del presidente electo enfrentan mayores cuestionamientos.

By Carl Hulse

Plus, a $6.2 million piece of fruit.

By Tracy Mumford, Catherine Porter, Robert Jimison, Ian Stewart and Jessica Metzger

The G.O.P. united behind Nick Begich III, the conservative son of a prominent liberal Alaska political family, to beat Representative Mary Peltola, a Democrat.

By Maya C. Miller

The G.O.P. speaker sided with hard-right members of his conference who called for blocking Representative-elect Sarah McBride, the first transgender member of Congress, from using Capitol women’s rooms.

By Annie Karni

Back taxes, youthful pot smoking and undocumented nannies scuttled previous presidential choices. Some of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s candidates face bigger questions.

By Carl Hulse

Plus, this musical wants France to love it back.

By Tracy Mumford, Erica L. Green, Alex Travelli, Ian Stewart and Jessica Metzger

After a victorious Senate campaign, Ruben Gallego thinks others can follow his lead by signaling that they hear Latino voters’ economic pain. But repeating his success might not be so easy.

By Kellen Browning and Jennifer Medina

The closest House race in the nation is in Southern California, where Representative Michelle Steel is trailing her challenger, Derek Tran, by a tiny margin after nearly 310,000 votes have been counted.

By Amy Qin

G.O.P. lawmakers whose leaders have pressed to roll back transgender rights around the country moved to bar Sarah McBride, the first transgender member of Congress, from women’s rooms on Capitol Hill.

By Annie Karni

The Constitution allows the president to circumvent the Senate and put appointees in place while the chamber is in recess, a loophole created back when Capitol commutes involved long treks by horse.

By Maya C. Miller

The president-elect is taking a flood-the-zone approach to his cabinet nominations, betting that the Senate won’t dare to turn them all down.

By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

The president said the aid was “urgently needed” as emergency programs face funding shortfalls amid the devastation after Hurricanes Helene and Milton and a string of other natural disasters.

By Erica L. Green and Catie Edmondson

A vendetta over the congressional ethics investigation into Matt Gaetz helped sink the last speaker. The new speaker has moved to quash it.

By Annie Karni

As a Senate recount plays out, at least four counties are ignoring an order from the State Supreme Court that undated or misdated mail ballots cannot be counted.

By Nick Corasaniti

The right-wing mudslinger built his brand on mercilessly trolling his adversaries, including some Republican senators, on TV and social media. Now he needs their votes to be confirmed.

By Maya C. Miller

Even as Democrats rebuked Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts for saying he didn’t want his daughters “getting run over” by “formerly male” athletes, he defended his remarks.

By Tim Balk

Es incierto si el Senado ratificará a Kennedy, un escéptico de las vacunas y quien tiene opiniones poco ortodoxas sobre la medicina.

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg

The president-elect has selected several allies in Congress, along with a current governor, to join his administration.

By Neil Vigdor

The House speaker said revealing the findings of a yearslong inquiry into allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use would be a ‘terrible breach of protocol’ because Matt Gaetz had resigned.

By Luke Broadwater

The Republican speaker, once viewed as an interim figure, maintained the House majority and his job. But his narrow margin of control could pose major difficulties.

By Catie Edmondson

The last five presidents have all had periods where both the House and the Senate were in friendly hands — but most lasted just two years before the backlash set in.

By Carl Hulse

Political independence and ethics are the bedrock of our armed forces. Today, I am concerned that both are in danger.

By Chuck Hagel

Laura Gillen was elected to Congress in Nassau County, where Democrats are grappling with a new political reality.

By Ginia Bellafante

Mr. Kim will be the first Korean American senator. Nowhere in the United States is his community’s imprint more clear than in northern New Jersey.

By Tracey Tully and Hannah Yoon

Las designaciones del presidente electo para formar su gabinete demuestran su desprecio por un poder ejecutivo responsable.

By El Comité Editorial

Trump’s choice to lead the Justice Department is a flagrant provocation that is, like a pulpy B movie, so bad, it’s good.

By Michelle Goldberg

The president-elect’s choice of combative loyalists who could have trouble being confirmed has raised constitutional questions about executive power and the Senate’s prerogatives.

By Karoun Demirjian, Carl Hulse and Maya C. Miller

Whether the Senate would confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic who has unorthodox views about medicine, is an open question.

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg

Republicans and Democrats alike insisted that the findings of the House Ethics Committee, which has been investigating the Florida Republican for years over sexual misconduct and other charges, be made public.

By Luke Broadwater

El comité había estado investigando las acusaciones de que Gaetz, elegido como fiscal general por el presidente electo Donald Trump, incurrió en conducta sexual inapropiada y consumo de drogas ilícitas.

By Robert Draper, Luke Broadwater and Maya C. Miller

El partido afianzó su control en la cámara tras conservar un puñado de escaños cruciales en Arizona y California y derrotar a demócratas en funciones en distritos disputados clave.

By Catie Edmondson

State Representative Janelle Bynum, a Democrat and the first Black woman elected to represent Oregon in Congress, ousted the freshman Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer.

By Maya C. Miller

Donald Trump has nominated a loyalist, Matt Gaetz, to lead the Justice Department. But his confirmation is not a sure thing.

By the staff of The Morning

Plus, a Chinese government cover-up.

By Tracy Mumford, Katie Rogers, Vivian Wang, Robert Jimison, Ian Stewart and Jessica Metzger

Listen to our political round table on Donald J. Trump’s first week as president-elect.

By Michael Barbaro, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman, Stella Tan, Jessica Cheung, Rachel Quester, Liz O. Baylen, Pat McCusker, Diane Wong and Chris Wood

Three extreme cabinet nominations demonstrate his contempt for a responsible executive branch.

By The Editorial Board