Hill watchers, oversight wonks and good-governance types descended on a Rayburn House Office Building hearing room Wednesday with a wish list of spending items for the legislative branch. It was the ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — The United States Capitol Police (USCP) said an armed man who took a U.S. Capitol tour and visited the Library of Congress was arrested on Tuesday.

After you've admired the Capitol, walk along East Capitol Street to the Library of Congress. Comprising three buildings and housing more than 164 million books, manuscripts, sound recordings ...

Authorized in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution and set aside by an act of Congress in 1790 ... thrilling vistas from the Capitol and the "presidential palace," and numerous squares ...

Only one person in U.S. history has defied the two-term example set by the first president, George Washington.

Library of Congress In the torrid summer ... Gradually, a magnificent building—the United States Capitol—took shape on Thornton's papers. The structure, he believed, would rise as a shrine ...