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As 2025 comes to a close, lawmakers scramble and fumble their way through attempts to finish last-minute work.

Congress has left the building. Here are the images of the last week of this session captured by CQ Roll Call photojournalists.

The Senate followed the House in leaving for the Christmas break on Thursday, kicking to January the next handful of spending bills.

The Justice Department faces a Friday deadline to release investigative materials on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Lawmakers hoping to ban congressional stock trading are seeing fractures in their alliance as they try to bring the issue to the House floor.

A panel of appellate judges expressed skepticism about Trump adviser Peter Navarro’s effort to toss his contempt of Congress conviction.

Donald Trump broke with past presidents with a prime-time address that some say was an attempt to upend the State of the Union tradition.

Catch up on the political news of the past week in the latest At the Races newsletter, including Trump's return to the trail and retirements.

President Trump on Thursday called it an "honor" that his hand-picked Kennedy Center board added his name to the performing arts center.

The first session of the 119th Congress has been consequential: The legislative branch ceded many of its constitutional responsibilities to the executive branch, senators changed the process for confirming presidential nominees, the House rank and file grew more emboldened to sidestep their leaders and force votes, and much, much more shaped…

The Trump administration has shuttered a Reagan-era program that coordinated major transnational crime investigations.