The U.S. House of Representatives is called into session on opening day of the 115th Congress, Jan. 3, 2017. (Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images) The last Congress was the first one in more than a ...

With each incoming class of Congress, the Pew Research Center updates their composite look at the religious affiliation of the members. Little has changed from the 114th to the incoming 115th ...

On Jan. 15, Pat Tiberi became the 12th member of the 115th Congress to resign from office. If that feels like a lot, that’s because it is; it’s the most people who have resigned from Congress ...

The new Congress set to take office in January is slated to be the most racially diverse in history. Record numbers of Hispanics, African-Americans, Asian-Americans and women of color will serve ...

As Washington anticipates the start of the 116th Congress on Jan. 3, it marks the end of the 115th. In some ways, it was a successful two years. For the first time in over 30 years, Congress ...

The number of Millennials and Generation Xers in the U.S. House of Representatives rose slightly with the new 117th Congress, though less so than with the 116th. And even as these generations gain ...

Bush in 2001. When President Donald Trump took office in 2017, the Republican-controlled 115th Congress passed a flurry of 14 disapproval resolutions of proposed regulations left pending from the ...

tied with the 117th Congress that began in January 2021 and just behind the average 58.6 years seen during the 115th Congress four years before that. The age of Congress is in part because the ...

Early in President Trump's first term, the Republican-controlled 115th Congress used the reconciliation process to pass the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). Some of the provisions were permanent ...

Is that true? FactCheck.org also recently was asked about congressional pay again and, with the 115th Congress now in session, it decided to do an update on pension and health benefits for former ...