Transportation

TSA Modernization at 25-Year Crossroads

As the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks approaches, Congress is preparing to take a hard look at whether the agency created in the attacks'...

Personnel Movements

Senate Confirms Norway and South Korea Ambassadors Amid Ally Strain

The U.S. Embassy in Seoul has been without a confirmed ambassador for more than a year, a gap that has persisted through South Korea's political upheaval...

Government Operations

House Foreign Affairs Committee Examines Threats to Independent Agencies

The House Foreign Affairs Committee is set to examine the Trump administration's FY2027 budget request for State Department adjacent entities on May 20, a...

Law and Order

Senate Judiciary Committee Accelerates Lifetime Judicial Appointments

The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hold a nominations hearing on May 20, with the specific nominees yet to be publicly disclosed. The hearing...

Legislation

Congress Examines Retail Impact of Stock Trading Rules

The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets is set to examine how stock trades move from order to execution — a process that affects every...

Intelligence

Senate Demands Answers on Pentagon's Mysterious Weapon

The Senate Armed Services Committee is set to receive a classified briefing on anomalous health incidents on May 20, 2026, a session that arrives as the...

Congress

Senate Examines Charter Schools' Impact on Student Needs

Charter schools are expanding their footprint across the country as families exit traditional public schools in growing numbers, federal grant dollars flow...

Government Operations

Congress Demands Answers on Funding Cuts to Army Corps

The Trump administration is proposing to cut the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers budget by roughly 36 percent in a single year, dropping from approximately...

Law and Order

House Honors 345 Fallen Officers with Near-Unanimous Memorial Vote

The House passed the H.Res. 1252 floor vote on Wednesday, 418-2, memorializing law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty during 2024. The vote,...

Congress

Pentagon Budget Under Scrutiny in Senate

The White House's proposal to cut Pentagon research and development spending by roughly one-third, a reduction of approximately $4.5 billion, sets the...

Congress

Yemen's Unresolved War Poses Compounding Risks for U.S. Policy

A new Congressional Research Service report on the Yemen crisis lands at a fraught moment, as the Trump Administration navigates a ceasefire with the...

Government Operations

Congressional Staff Navigate Complex Research Landscape Amid Oversight Demands

The Congressional Research Service quietly updated one of its most practical publications this month, a guide that tells congressional staff where to find...

Congress

Are Intelligence Reforms Twenty-Five Years Later Still Effective?

Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks reshaped the American intelligence apparatus, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is...

Congress

Russia's Military Expansion in Nicaragua Threatens U.S. Hemisphere

Russia just ratified a military cooperation pact with Nicaragua — one that grants Russian personnel special jurisdictional immunity on Nicaraguan soil — and...

Defense

Senate Blocks War Powers Challenge to Iran Operations for Eighth Time

The Senate on Thursday failed to advance S.J.Res. 163, a joint resolution that would have directed the removal of U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities with...

Law and Order

Synapse Collapse Exposes Bank-Fintech Accountability Gap

The collapse of fintech middleware provider Synapse in 2024 locked more than 100,000 customers out of $265 million in deposits they believed were federally...

Legislation

Senate Republicans Block Bid to Restore Bank Overdraft Protections

The S.J.Res. 130 floor vote on Wednesday ended exactly as expected: a 47-53 party-line defeat, with every Senate Republican voting to block a Democratic...