Editorials

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) has been trying for years to pass a comprehensive farm bill. This week, he might get his wish.

There has been a lot of speculation about whether the Senate immigration reform bill has the votes to pass.

Moves by Senate Republican leaders on immigration reform will be scrutinized closely.

Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) is on a mission to have a farm bill signed this year.

Washington summers can be brutal, but the July and August months of 2011 were especially torrid in the nation’s capital.

President Obama and the 113th Congress haven’t been productive in the first five months of the year. 

The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to pass sweeping landmark immigration reform later this week, but there will be some drama between now and then.

Spring in Washington has been chilly for everyone, but for no one more than President Obama — and there are few hints that more clement political weather will arrive soon at the White House.

It’s going to be a long week for the Internal Revenue Service.

Legislating in the Senate usually goes like this: A senator introduces a bill, touts it and puts pressure on the House to take it up.