Data and News Shaping the Political Landscape
American manufacturing competitiveness — and who controls the next generation of industrial robotics — is the subtext of a House Science, Space, and...
Ambassador Jamieson Greer will face House appropriators on April 16, 2026, at a moment when U.S. trade policy has been more disruptive — and more...
The Senate HELP Committee's April 14 hearing on drug pricing arrives as a central policy question remains unresolved: whether competition — through...
A House financial services panel is set to convene a credit access hearing on April 16, 2026, and the stakes for millions of Americans are real. The...
The 2026 Farm Bill tobacco proposal would restore federal support for a crop that Congress deliberately cut off two decades ago — and it's already...
A new Congressional Research Service report makes clear that trading on inside information in prediction markets is already illegal — but enforcement gaps...
Why it matters: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing held March 26, 2026 at the Dirksen Senate Office Building examined three nominees whose...
Why it matters: The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee convened a student athlete hearing Congress has been building toward for years —...
Why it matters: The House Financial Services Committee's Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee convened a technology...
The House Veterans' Affairs Economic Opportunity Subcommittee held a VA home loan hearing on March 26, 2026, focused on lowering costs for veteran families...
Why it matters: The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies held a Member Day...
The H.R. 7084 floor vote on the Defending American Property Abroad Act cleared the House 247–164, with Republicans holding perfect unity and 41 Democrats...
Why it Matters Thirty lawmakers — 17 Republicans and 13 Democrats — have lined up behind the Chip Security Act, a piece of semiconductor security...
Why it matters: The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee convened a business meeting on March 27, 2026, at the Russell Senate Office...
House Panel Examines Critical Minerals Supply Chain Amid China Tensions
Democrats couldn't find a single Republican vote to overturn the Trump administration's IRS crackdown on clean energy projects.
Thirty years after Congress rewrote the rules of American communications, the House is taking stock — and the stakes couldn't be higher. The...
The U.S. is moving to open the ocean floor to commercial mining — and Congress is only now beginning to grapple with what that means scientifically,...
Five bills that would reshape how the federal government manages oil, gas, coal, and mineral development on public lands are getting their first real...
Sen. John Boozman's crypto regulation bill would hand the CFTC the keys to digital asset spot markets. But getting it across the finish line is another story.
