Congress

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 —...

Commerce

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...

Congress

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...

Transportation

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...

Commerce

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...

Follow the Money

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...

Commerce

Tariffs Pressure Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property

The Trump administration's decision to slap 100% tariffs on patented pharmaceuticals — combined with an aggressive push to tie American drug prices to the...

Commerce

U.S. Government Sues Chinese Firm to Force Sale

A landmark Section 721 Defense Production Act lawsuit is rewriting the rules of foreign investment enforcement — and Congress may need to catch up.

Agriculture

South Texas Shrimpers End Brief Federal Lobbying Relationship

A small Gulf Coast shrimping advocacy group has ended its brief Washington lobbying relationship, filing an LDA termination that reflects the broader...

Government Operations

Ohio Manufacturers' Association Focuses on Federal Lobbying

The Ohio Manufacturers' Association has filed a new lobbying registration disclosure with federal authorities, bringing on Shumaker Advisors LLC to...

Congress

Imported Shark Fins Undermine U.S. Conservation Efforts

A new Congressional Research Service report on shark conservation management in the United States lands at a complicated moment: the domestic regulatory...

Congress

Unfulfilled And Halted China Trade Deal Leaves Core Disputes Unresolved

A Congressional Research Service report updated last week offers Congress a pointed assessment of the Section 301 China trade deal — and the picture it...

Law and Order

Supreme Court Strikes Down Mexico Tariff Authority

A new Congressional Research Service report on U.S.-Mexico trade relations arrives at a pivotal moment: the Trump administration's primary tariff tool...

Commerce

GOP Split Over Tariffs Threatens Small Manufacturer Growth

Why it matters: The Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee held a hearing on May 13, 2026, examining industrialization and the rise of small...

Commerce

Committee Tackles Small Business Debt and Tariff Crisis

The House Small Business Committee is scheduled to hold a full committee markup Wednesday evening, and the stakes for America's small business owners are...

Macroeconomics

Small Builders Squeezed Out of Responding to Housing Crisis

America's housing shortage has grown to more than 4 million units, and the small builders historically responsible for filling that gap are getting squeezed...

Commerce

Consolidating Duplicative Diplomacy: Efficiency or Redundancy?

The United States runs two parallel commercial diplomacy operations abroad, often out of the same embassy buildings, and Congress is now asking whether that...