Congress

Committee Decides NASA's Lunar and Space Future

NASA's budget is on the line. The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies has scheduled a NASA budget hearing...

Space, Science, Technology, and Communications

Committee Reshapes U.S. Tech Export Controls

The House Foreign Affairs Committee is set to mark up more than two dozen bills on April 22 that would reshape how the United States controls exports of...

Congress

Committee Votes on Rural Development Leadership Amid Crisis

The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee is set to vote today on the Glen Smith nomination to lead USDA's Rural Development office — a...

Space, Science, Technology, and Communications

Committee Examines Satellite Licensing Overhaul Bill

The satellite industry has spent years — and millions of dollars — pressing Congress to overhaul a licensing system that companies say is too slow, too...

Health

PBM Profits Under Fire: Congress Demands Accountability

Pharmacy benefit managers — the largely invisible intermediaries that negotiate drug prices between manufacturers, insurers, and pharmacies — are facing a...

Space, Science, Technology, and Communications

Commerce Budget Cuts: Defending Science and Economic Growth

The White House is asking Congress to cut $1.3 billion — 12.2 percent — from the Department of Commerce budget, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick will...

Congress

NRC Struggles to Keep Pace With Nuclear Boom

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission sits at the center of one of Washington's most consequential energy debates: whether the federal government can move fast...

Legislation

Committee Votes to Reshape American Financial Regulation

Four financial sector bills are headed to a markup vote before the House Financial Services Committee on April 21, 2026 — a move that would roll back small...

International Affairs and Foreign Aid

Senate Finance Committee To Scrutinize Trade Policy Fueled By $2.6m In Lobbying

The Senate Finance Committee is set to scrutinize the administration's trade agenda at a moment when tariffs have reshaped supply chains, rattled markets,...

Public Lands and Water Management

Senate Advances Bill to Kill Biden's Minnesota Mining Ban

The Senate voted 51-47 on a motion to proceed on H.J.Res. 140, a joint resolution that would nullify the Bureau of Land Management's Public Land Order No....

Commerce

Government Agencies Acquire AI As They Go and Without Any Regulatory Framework

AI procurement federal agencies rely on has more than doubled in just one year, and yet not one of the four major agencies reviewed by the Government...

Commerce

GAO Exposes Understaffed, Accelerated Federal Property Disposal Effort

The federal government is sitting on hundreds of properties it no longer needs and the agency charged with selling them is moving faster than ever, with...

Congress

U.S. Shipbuilding Gap Threatens National Security

The United States builds fewer than 100,000 tons of commercial shipping annually. China builds more than 40 million. That gap — and its implications for...

Defense

Senate Rejects Israel Arms Sale Block, Clearing $295 Million Bulldozer Transfer

The Senate on Wednesday rejected the S.J.Res. 32 vote to discharge a joint resolution that would have blocked a proposed foreign military sale to Israel...

Defense

Senate Blocks Effort to Stop Israel Arms Sale as Democrats Split as GOP Stands Firm

The motion to discharge S.J.Res. 138 — a joint resolution that would have blocked a $151.8 million sale of 1,000-pound gravity bombs to Israel — failed in...

Banking, Finance, and Domestic Commerce

CFTC Under Fire: Regulating Digital Assets, States

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is in the middle of one of its most consequential stretches in years — suing states, monitoring suspicious oil...

Labor and Employment

Congress Debates Gig Worker Status And Entrepreneurship

The House Small Business Committee is set to hold a hearing on the gig economy April 21, and the stakes extend well beyond platform workers and app-based...