Federal Power Over Elections Tests Constitutional State Authority
A new Congressional Research Service report on federal investigations and voting records seizure activity lands at a moment of escalating legal conflict...
A new Congressional Research Service report on federal investigations and voting records seizure activity lands at a moment of escalating legal conflict...
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could fundamentally alter the legal landscape for Title IX employee discrimination claims at federally...
A new Congressional Research Service report examines the rocky history of Data.gov implementation and raises pointed questions about whether the federal...
A new Congressional Research Service report on Medicare's site-neutral payment policy lands at a moment when Congress is actively hunting for ways to offset...
A new Congressional Research Service report is putting military infertility benefits back on the legislative agenda, documenting a persistent gap between...

Why it matters: The House Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries held an oversight hearing on May 20 examining the future of the Bureau of...

A new Congressional Research Service report on Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum lays out the scope of one of the most aggressive expansions of...

As the Trump administration pursues sweeping cuts to federal spending, a newly updated Congressional Research Service report offers a detailed look at how...




The Department of Veterans Affairs holds some of the most sensitive data in the federal government — genetic profiles, medical histories, and mental health...
Why it matters: The House Energy and Commerce Committee held a wide-ranging full committee markup on May 21, 2026, advancing 16 bills spanning vehicle...
When service members leave their jobs to answer the call of duty, federal law promises they can come back. But a new government watchdog report finds that...
The race to succeed Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX-38) in Tuesday's Republican primary runoff for Texas's 38th Congressional District has come down to two...
A quiet but consequential shift in how the federal government publishes scientific research is on a collision course with fiscal reality. The U.S....
A new Congressional Research Service report on wildfire fuel treatments lands at a politically charged moment: the Trump Administration is simultaneously...
The United States is in a race it cannot afford to lose — and until now, it has lacked a consistent, structured way to measure whether it is winning. A new...
The Trump Administration is weighing one of the most significant restructurings of federal disaster relief in decades, and a new Congressional Research...
President Trump signed Executive Order 14395 on March 16, 2026, creating a government-wide Task Force to Eliminate Fraud in federal benefits programs. A new...
A new Congressional Research Service report on Title I-A grants for FY2025 lands at a moment when the future of federal K-12 education funding is anything...
Why it matters: The Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Innovation and Safety held a congressional hearing...
A new Congressional Research Service report on shark conservation management in the United States lands at a complicated moment: the domestic regulatory...
A new Congressional Research Service report on U.S. extended deterrence and regional nuclear capabilities lands with a pointed observation: the Trump...
Colombia's 2026 presidential election, scheduled for May 31, arrives at a moment when U.S.-Colombian relations are at a low point, and the outcome could...
A Congressional Research Service report updated last week offers Congress a pointed assessment of the Section 301 China trade deal — and the picture it...