What is plenary authority? Does the president have plenary power? Here's what to know about the Insurrection Act and what was said.

House Republicans’ proposal to cut nearly half of the Government Accountability Office’s budget could result in Congress missing out on billions of dollars of savings, Democrats argued on Monday. The ...

The Constitution created three branches of government: the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. For the past century, progressives in Congress have created a fourth branch composed of ...

The judiciary isn’t supposed to be the primary check on the executive, the legislative branch is. Whatever you think about ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Rules and ...