Behind every federal government dollar granted to Georgetown is an array of staff and student lobbyists engaged in an ongoing dialogue with Capitol Hill. The majority of the Office of Federal Relations'...

Members of Congress called for the creation of a national center for campus security and protocol training last Thursday. The Center to Advance, Monitor and Preserve University Security Safety Act of...

After several months of negotiations between Congress, the White House and the Department of Education, Pell Grant funding and other federal sources of financial aid have emerged from the budget process...

Democratic rising star Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) spoke with about 80 students in Riggs Library on Monday night. McCaskill, who is widely regarded by some political pundits to have presidential potential,...

Turns out Georgetown graduates not only get into Congress, they stay there. Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) has served 29 terms in Congress since he arrived in 1955, and he declared last month that he plans...

Turns out Georgetown graduates not only get into Congress, they stay there. Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) has served 29 terms in Congress since he arrived in 1955, and he declared last month that he plans...

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill on Jan. 20 that would prohibit the use of federal tax money for funding abortions in the District of Columbia. Since the federal government...

Congress is back for the 112th session, and the post-election calls for working together are the hot thing around Washington. Both parties say they want to get along on taxes, spending cuts and most importantly,...

President Obama's State of the Union address on Wednesday night was a study in unrealistic ambition. He proposed plans to reform the economy, create jobs, fix health care, reduce the budget deficit, improve...

The silver lining of President Obama's midterm "shellacking" may well be an improvement in political cooperation, as former President Jimmy Carter cautiously predicted in an interview with comedian Bill...

The end of midterm elections does not signal a break from intense politicking. Beginning in January, the new Republican House majority and the diminished Democratic Senate majority will be faced with a...

If the latest polls are any indication, Republicans stand a good chance of recapturing Congress next week, not to mention a majority of governorships and state legislatures across the country. Republican...