Data and News Shaping the Political Landscape
The Improving Care in Rural America Reauthorization Act clears the House 406-4, with both parties aligned on extending federal grants through 2030.
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...
Medicare fraud costs the federal government tens of billions of dollars annually — money that flows out of a program serving more than 65 million Americans....
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...
Two bills heading to markup before the House Judiciary Committee on April 22 would expand federal criminal history record access to state law enforcement...
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense is moving through its fiscal year 2027 budget hearings at a deliberate pace, and the Air Force and Space...
The Pentagon's missile defense portfolio — covering everything from ground-based interceptors to next-generation hypersonic countermeasures — is about to...
A partial government shutdown that has now stretched across half of fiscal year 2026 is leaving TSA officers unpaid, CISA cybersecurity operations...
The Senate Judiciary Committee convenes Tuesday afternoon for the second in a series of hearings examining "Arctic Frost" — what Republican members are...
The FY27 Budget Request For Nuclear Forces And Atomic Energy Defense Activities hearing arrives at a moment when the nuclear weapons budget request is...
The satellite industry has spent years — and millions of dollars — pressing Congress to overhaul a licensing system that companies say is too slow, too...
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy has scheduled a hearing on U.S. counterterrorism strategy in Africa...
A package of ten public health bills — covering everything from ALS research to school-based health clinics to tick-borne disease — lands before the House...
Pharmacy benefit managers — the largely invisible intermediaries that negotiate drug prices between manufacturers, insurers, and pharmacies — are facing a...
The House Appropriations Committee is deep into building the federal government's Fiscal Year 2027 spending blueprint — and today's Member Day hearing at...
Congress's three core institutional watchdogs — the Congressional Budget Office, the Government Accountability Office, and the Government Publishing Office...
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will convene a closed Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on April 22, at 219 Hart Senate Office Building —...
Five pieces of legislation — touching broadband access, federal building energy standards, geothermal energy, Endangered Species Act reform, and rural...
The Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on maritime unmanned surface vessels, scheduled for April 21, 2026, arrives as defense companies have spent...
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission sits at the center of one of Washington's most consequential energy debates: whether the federal government can move fast...
