U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes says her focus will always be on everyday people, and she's working to expand opportunities for 13th District constituents.

Sen. James Lankford has been trying to pass legislation in response to an industry he believes will leave small towns without many pharmacy options.

We Were Wrong' ・In SCOTUS Case, a 'Historic Victory for Gender Justice' ・After Bishop's Pleas for 'Mercy,' Trump Responds ・Trump Pardons 'Dread Pirate Roberts' This article originally appeared on Newser: Congress Passes Laken Riley Act

Congress passed the Laken Riley Act with bipartisan support. Here's what the strict measure really means for undocumented immigrants.

That means Congress would not only have to act to give Trump the ability to dissolve agencies in the first place, but it’d also have to approve any proposed Trump plan to eliminate FEMA.

Forty-six Democrats crossed party lines in voting to pass a bill requiring undocumented immigrants arrested for violent crimes to be held in jail pending trial.

The Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression Act would have prevented states from enforcing their own agricultural regulations, but has failed to advance in Congress this session. While the measure was excluded from the most recent Farm Bill extension,

Newt Gingrich vowed to apply the country’s laws to Congress. Now early backers are looking back on the Congressional Accountability Act.

The White House’s temporary pause on trillions in federal spending could set up a court fight over executive authority and Congress’s control of the purse.

We all learned early in life that the Founding Fathers gave Congress the “Power of the Purse” on spending to act as a check on the executive branch, but it sure hasn’t looked like that in the early days of President Donald Trump’s second term in office.

President Donald Trump signed the first bill of his new administration – the Laken Riley Act, named for an AU nursing student who was slain on the University of Georgia campus.