Both Republicans and Democrats say the president has the power to stop the unprecedented surge of undocumented immigrants flooding the U.S.-Mexico border.
The U.S. House of Representatives is moving ahead with its plans to sue President Barack Obama over the implementation of Obamacare.
A federal judge is demanding the Internal Revenue Service detail how former IRS official Lois Lerner's emails went missing.
The president's trip to Texas regarding the immigration crisis didn't include a visit to the border - a move that's drawn criticism from both sides of the aisle.
Former IRS official Lois Lerner warned her colleagues to be cautious about what they wrote in emails.
The politics over immigration is coming to a head in Texas as President Barack Obama meets with his chief critic, Gov. Rick Perry.
A federal watchdog agency is looking into claims that whistleblowers in the scandal involving VA hospitals say they suffered retaliation from their superiors.
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a five-year renewal of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
House lawmakers are outraged over reports the government shelled out $100 billion in payments to people who should not have received them.
Democrats in the Senate are trying to override the Supreme Court's ruling that exempted some companies from Obamacare's birth control mandate.