Scientific publisher Springer Nature America Inc. has expanded its federal lobbying operation by hiring, for the first time on record, an outside lobbying...
Nonimmigrant visa interview wait times have risen nearly eightfold since before the pandemic, while State Department staffing shortages have contributed to...
Federal election and voting law draws on the U.S. Constitution, federal and state statutes, regulations, and court cases, and a new Congressional Research...
A recent Supreme Court ruling on presidential control over executive officials could raise new constitutional challenges to certain powers exercised by the...
Federal watchdogs have tracked more than 17,000 unresolved recommendations to improve government operations but generally cannot compel agencies to...
The filings were signed Oct. 2 to Oct. 7, 2026, and all cover the third quarter of 2026.
The National Fisheries Institute Inc. (NFI) filed its second-quarter lobbying disclosure listing fisheries management, seafood traceability, tariffs, and...
The total amount of Medicaid fraud is unknown, according to a new Congressional Research Service report. However, the research distinguishes fraud from the...
Ballard Partners LLC has reported more than $200,000 in lobbying fees from Maha Capital for work related to Venezuelan oil acquisitions and operations amid...
The Good Neighbor Authority (GNA), which lets the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior authorize states, counties, and Tribes conduct land management...
Federal agencies spending roughly $126 million to combat firearms trafficking to Mexico cannot demonstrate whether that money is working, according to a new...
Competing federal cybersecurity rules are making it harder for critical infrastructure operators to respond to cyber threats, according to a new GAO report...
How far Congress can go to influence retail electricity rates, which state public utility commissions (PUCs) have held primary authority over since 1935, is...
A new Congressional Research Service (CRS) report outlines how the Trump administration has used alternative legal authorities to impose tariffs after a...
Existing federal criminal law likely covers people who intentionally use AI to commit crimes, but leaves a significant gap when an AI agent causes harm...
Congress's broad power to attach conditions to federal funding has real constitutional limits, and a new Congressional Research Service report maps exactly...
Congress faces a core tradeoff on PFAS remediation: whether to shield water utilities, farms, and other entities that never manufactured or used these...
The Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA) filed its third quarter lobbying disclosure on Oct. 5, reporting $100,000 in in-house expenditures.
The federal terrorism insurance backstop is set to expire at the end of 2027, and Congress has yet to resolve whether, and on what terms, to extend it...
Mainstream Colorado Fund reports more than $500,000 in total outside spending in the 2026 cycle, and its filings to date show over $200,00 in independent...
The Department of Defense submitted $53.7 billion in priorities left out of the president's annual budget request, renewing a congressional debate over...
Congress has not enacted legislation specifically governing the Department of Defense's (DOD) use of frontier artificial intelligence models or their...
CFFE PAC, the Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy's political action committee, reported $5.32 million in outside spending, primarily supporting...