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Committee Examines Airline Consolidation After Spirit's Collapse
Spirit Airlines' collapse in May removed 5 million seats from the summer travel market, stranded tens of thousands of customers, and left more than 90...
Committee Examines Critical Mineral Mapping Amid China Threats
The federal government is racing to map America's underground mineral wealth as China tightens its grip on critical mineral exports and the Pentagon backs...
China Dominates Rare Earth Elements Supply Chain
The United States is structurally exposed on one of the most consequential material dependencies in modern defense and technology: the rare earth elements...
Legacy Global Metals Lobbies for Manufacturing With New Hire
Legacy Global Metals and Mining LLC is a first-time entrant into federal lobbying, filing a new lobbying registration disclosure with Venn Strategies LLC on...
Platinum Group Metals Hires Brownstein for Palladium Lobbying
Platinum Group Metals Ltd. filed a new lobbying registration with Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP on June 1, 2026, signed June 12. The registration...
Supreme Court Alters House Debate
Why it matters: The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet held a pharmaceutical patent...
Small Business Defense Contracts Plummet
Why it matters: The House Committee on Small Business held a hearing on June 3 examining the role of small businesses in national security, and the central...
European Parliament Holds Hidden Veto Over U.S. Trade Deals
The European Parliament sits at the intersection of nearly every major policy friction point between Washington and Brussels — trade, digital regulation,...
US Struggles to Secure Critical Minerals Domestically
The Congressional Research Service released a new resource guide on June 8 designed to help lawmakers navigate one of Washington's most contested policy...
Senate Examines Main Street Retail Crises
Small business retail is under pressure from tariffs, shifting consumer behavior, and generational spending changes — and Congress is paying attention....
Washington Scrambles to Keep Up with Chinese Industrial Ambitions
A new Congressional Research Service report lays out the scope of Beijing's decade-long push to dominate advanced technology — and the uncomfortable truth...
US-Spain Alliance Frays Under Iran Conflict Pressure
A new Congressional Research Service report on Spain US relations lands at a precarious moment: Washington and Madrid are locked in their most serious...
House Holds Hearing on United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement
The House Agriculture Committee has scheduled a USMCA agricultural hearing for Wednesday, June 10, at 2:00 p.m. in 1300 Longworth House Office Building —...
Michelin North America Lobbies on Trade, Tax Policy
Michelin North America reported $227,803 in in-house lobbying spending for the first quarter of 2026, according to a lobbying disclosure filed June 1. The...
Have Sports' Leagues Media Deals Become Anticompetitive?
Congress is taking a hard look at whether a 65-year-old antitrust exemption still makes sense in an era when fans increasingly need a paid streaming...
Committee Examines Maritime Budget, Efficiency Contradictions
The U.S. maritime sector is navigating a collision of competing pressures: an ambitious FY2027 budget proposal seeking to expand shipbuilding capacity, an...
Committee To Shape Farm Trade
The House Agriculture Committee's June 10 hearing on agricultural perspectives on the future of the USMCA lands at a moment when the stakes for American...
National Confectioners Association Sweetens its Lobbying Spending
The National Confectioners Association's 2026 Q1 in-house filing discloses $330,000 in lobbying expenditures — the highest quarterly in-house spend on...