Editorials

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.

Three career State Department officials will testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday.

Policymakers in Washington got some good news recently: They don’t need to have a legislative solution on raising the debt ceiling until after the August recess.

Immigration reform has long been a very difficult piece of legislation to get through Congress.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is working on two high-profile bills this week: immigration reform and an online sales tax measure.

Lawmakers were ready to debate gun control and immigration this week, but the terrorist attack in Boston blew their attention in a different direction.

Gun control and immigration reform bills are going in very different directions.