Data and News Shaping the Political Landscape
The two-month-old DHS shutdown is creating measurable disruptions to federal preparations for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, a senior Homeland Security official...
Senate Republicans are pressing the Trump administration to drop its Justice Department probe into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell — or risk watching...
The Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act sailed through the House on April 14, 2026, with a vote that was about as close to unanimous as Congress...
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee is set to examine the White House's Fiscal Year 2027 budget request for the Department of Health...
Why it matters: The House Rules Committee convened on April 14 for a congressional hearing roundup that set floor terms for three Clean Air Act deregulation...
Why it matters: The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee convened a business meeting on April 14, 2026, advancing a sweeping package of...
The ALERT Act floor vote on April 16, 2026, produced one of the more striking displays of bipartisan agreement this Congress has seen — 396 to 10 — as the...
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...
Why it matters: The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence convened a closed session on Tuesday, April 14, 2026, at 219 Hart Senate Office Building to...
A new Congressional Research Service report gives lawmakers a roadmap — and a warning — as the administration pushes ahead with USDA structure changes that...
Why it matters: The Helsinki Commission's Vatican diplomacy hearing, held April 13, 2026, landed at a politically combustible moment — convened on the same...
The Senate Appropriations Committee is set to scrutinize the Department of Health and Human Services' proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2027 on April 21 — a...
Three bills targeting investor fraud, elder financial exploitation, and deceptive online promotions are on the table as the House Financial Services...
The VA disability claims backlog isn't an abstraction. It represents veterans waiting — sometimes years — for decisions on benefits they earned through...
The Senate Judiciary Committee is moving through a steady pipeline of pending nominations — federal judges, U.S. attorneys, and Justice Department officials...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears before a House Appropriations subcommittee on April 16 carrying a portfolio of decisions that have already drawn legal...
A House Appropriations subcommittee will convene a DHS budget hearing on April 16 that puts three of the federal government's most politically charged...
Congress is about to scrutinize one of the most aggressive space and intelligence spending proposals in recent memory — behind closed doors. The FY2027...
The Defense Intelligence Enterprise hearing 2026, scheduled for April 16 at 7:30 p.m. in 2212 Rayburn House Office Building, lands at a moment when the...
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...
