With the 2026 midterms months away, the federal infrastructure that has long underpinned American election security is reportedly fraying. The Cybersecurity...
As the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks approaches, Congress is preparing to take a hard look at whether the agency created in the attacks'...
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is weighing a run in Florida's majority-Black 20th Congressional District after Republican-led redistricting transformed her...
The U.S. Embassy in Seoul has been without a confirmed ambassador for more than a year, a gap that has persisted through South Korea's political upheaval...
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is set to examine the Trump administration's FY2027 budget request for State Department adjacent entities on May 20, a...
The Senate on Thursday failed to advance S.J.Res. 163, a joint resolution that would have directed the removal of U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities with...
The debate over E15 fuel year-round sale has been simmering for years, but a new Congressional Research Service report makes clear that the question is now...
Russia just ratified a military cooperation pact with Nicaragua — one that grants Russian personnel special jurisdictional immunity on Nicaraguan soil — and...
The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hold a nominations hearing on May 20, with the specific nominees yet to be publicly disclosed. The hearing...
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets is set to examine how stock trades move from order to execution — a process that affects every...
The Senate Armed Services Committee is set to receive a classified briefing on anomalous health incidents on May 20, 2026, a session that arrives as the...
Charter schools are expanding their footprint across the country as families exit traditional public schools in growing numbers, federal grant dollars flow...
The Trump administration is proposing to cut the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers budget by roughly 36 percent in a single year, dropping from approximately...
The House passed the H.Res. 1252 floor vote on Wednesday, 418-2, memorializing law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty during 2024. The vote,...
The House passed the Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act on May 13-14, 2026, clearing a decade-long regulatory fight over whether E15 gasoline...
The White House's proposal to cut Pentagon research and development spending by roughly one-third, a reduction of approximately $4.5 billion, sets the...
Vice President JD Vance traveled to Bangor, Maine on Thursday for what Politico's "Vance takes fraud fight to Maine" described as the first trip dedicated...
A new Congressional Research Service report on the Yemen crisis lands at a fraught moment, as the Trump Administration navigates a ceasefire with the...
The collapse of fintech middleware provider Synapse in 2024 locked more than 100,000 customers out of $265 million in deposits they believed were federally...
The S.J.Res. 130 floor vote on Wednesday ended exactly as expected: a 47-53 party-line defeat, with every Senate Republican voting to block a Democratic...
Why it matters: Senate Republicans on May 13 blocked S.J.Res. 132, a joint resolution that would have reversed the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection's...
A new Congressional Research Service report on Farm Bill horticulture programs lands at a pivotal moment: the 2018 Farm Bill has been extended three times,...
Why it matters: The House passed the Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act on May 13, 2026, clearing a decade-long regulatory hurdle for the...
