Here's why: Since President Joe Biden first issued an executive order in September requiring federal workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some have expressed outrage at what they wrongly assumed ...

Donald Trump’s administration is attempting a hostile takeover of the Library of Congress — an agency that is part of the legislative branch and functions as its research arm in addition to ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Rules and ...

The Department of Government Efficiency sought to assign a team of staffers to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, but the watchdog privately rejected those efforts, arguing that the ...

Cutting funding for the legislative branch makes Congress less competent and more reliant on special interests. As Congress writes spending bills that attempt to implement the first year of its budget ...

As part of the $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill released Wednesday, the $5.9 billion fiscal 2022 Legislative Branch funding portion would substantially boost the office budgets of House members to ...

As the White House angles to exert control over the Library of Congress, Democrats defended the independence of another legislative branch agency on Friday. A spokesman for the Government ...

The time has come to set the record straight about Constitutional Amendment 1, a proposal that would provide Kentucky’s legislative branch with more authority over when it meets. The current ...