Topic: Hal Rogers

President Joe Biden on Monday traveled to Kentucky to tour the devastation wrought by flooding that killed dozens of people and said last year's bipartisan infrastructure law will help the state "come back better."

Rep. Don Young died Friday while traveling home to Alaska, his office announced. He was 88.

Two members of Congress have issued a report that gives the United Nations' chief global health organization some responsibility for the opioid crisis in the United States.

Raytheon Co. and Phoenix Products, Inc. signed a $1.6 million contract to produce Naval Strike Missile transport containers as part of a mentor-protege program.

The House on Wednesday passed a school safety measure seeking to prevent shootings like the one that killed 17 people last month at a school in Parkland, Fla.

The House of Representatives passed a bill providing $622 million to combat the Zika virus, a third of what the White House requested.

Republican lawmakers on Monday proposed using more than $620 million that was earmarked for other government purposes to instead fight the emerging Zika threat.

President Barack Obama on Friday signed a stopgap measure to avert a government shutdown and keep federal offices operating for five more days.

As a Friday deadline looms for Congress to get a new spending bill passed, lawmakers are trying to push that cutoff to the middle of next week.

The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday proposed new regulations limiting the greenhouse gas emissions of airplanes.