A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. For the first time in his second term, President Donald Trump was confronted by his ...

Here's the funny thing about this month's lame-duck session of Congress, in which frantic lawmakers have pinballed from tax cuts to "don't ask, don't tell" to a nuclear weapons treaty: It's not ...

Seventy-one years after reformers thought they had gotten rid of lame-duck sessions of Congress, lawmakers -- victors and vanquished alike -- will trudge back to Washington in mid-November to tackle ...

State House Speaker Matt Hall says he would like to see an amendment to the Michigan Constitution that requires supermajority votes for the Legislature to adopt bills in “lame duck” sessions. The ...