Federal election and voting law draws on the U.S. Constitution, federal and state statutes, regulations, and court cases, and a new Congressional Research...
Federal watchdogs have tracked more than 17,000 unresolved recommendations to improve government operations but generally cannot compel agencies to...
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...
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has found that health savings accounts (HSA) are mostly funded by employer contributions even though individuals...
No Going Back PAC Inc. has spent more than $154 million this cycle on candidates, including more than $20 million opposing Sherrod Brown and more than $7.6...
Grace Higgins has been named national security adviser in the office of Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), effective September 1.
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...
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...
The filings were signed Oct. 2 to Oct. 7, 2026, and all cover the third quarter of 2026.
Congress's broad power to attach conditions to federal funding has real constitutional limits, and a new Congressional Research Service report maps exactly...
Stakeholders disagree over who should control and use frequency used by first responders or the 4.9 GHz public safety spectrum band. Local public safety...
Federal courts are able to block or reshape government policy long before a case reaches final judgment when the policy is contested in a civil suit. A new...
Access to paid family and medical leave in the United States is uneven and largely voluntary on the corporate side, with no federal mandate requiring...
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...
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP signed a new client registration on October 2 for the New England Fishermen's Stewardship Association, listing the...
The City of Del Rio, Texas has registered Lone Star Consulting LLC as a new outside lobbying firm, filing under the Transportation (TRA) issue code. The...
Since China's 2019 domestic controls curtailed almost all direct fentanyl shipments to the United States, China has become the primary source of the...
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.