After reciting the pledge of allegiance, the House is doing a quick quorum call to see which members are present. If all 434 lawmakers show up as expected, then Mike Johnson needs a majority of 218 ...

Three weeks ago I wrote about the Committee on Buildings meeting that aldermen Bernard Stone and Ray Suarez held on December 7–just the two of them. This had seemed like a pretty thin crowd for ...

The quorum has officially been called at 433, just one shy of the 434 total members in the House. But all lawmakers have been accounted for: Rep. Hank Johnson (D., Ga.) was missing from the quorum ...

As senators shuffle in for the final quorum call at a little after 5 in the morning, a thought occurs to me: Isn’t this entire operation an exercise in child abuse? Every time the Senate reassembles, ...