Data and News Shaping the Political Landscape
Pennsylvania's 16th Congressional District holds its primary today, and the financial picture could not be more lopsided. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA-16)), the...
Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District has become one of the most closely watched contests in the 2026 midterm elections, and the Ryan Mackenzie 2026...
Today is primary day in Kentucky, and the race to succeed retiring Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has been as much a story about money as it has...
Georgia voters go to the polls Tuesday for the Senate Republican primary, choosing which candidate will face Democratic incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff in...
A new Congressional Research Service report on CDC funding lays out in stark terms the distance between what Congress has appropriated for the nation's...
The Thomas Massie 2026 election has become something far larger than a Kentucky congressional race. With more than $25 million in total ad spending, it is...
The Congressional Research Service quietly updated one of its most practical publications this month, a guide that tells congressional staff where to find...
The House Foreign Affairs Committee's Oversight and Intelligence Subcommittee is convening a SIGAR Afghanistan hearing on May 19 to reckon with one of the...
The race that nearly ended Sen. Deb Fischer's Senate career in 2024 is now playing out next door. Fischer survived a seven-point scare against independent...
Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District 2026 primary arrives today with no incumbent on the ballot, more than $5.6 million in outside money already spent, and...
The federal government is spending nearly $1 billion a year to maintain aging nuclear facilities — and it still can't say with confidence what it actually...
The General Services Administration is emerging from one of the most turbulent periods in its history — deep DOGE-driven workforce cuts, a watchdog alarm...
The Senate Subcommittee on Legislative Branch is set to examine two budget requests that together could reshape how Congress maintains its physical home and...
The federal government spends hundreds of billions of dollars each year on contracts, and small businesses are supposed to get a meaningful slice of that....
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation sits at the center of a growing tension in American foreign policy: the Trump administration is...
A recent Congressional Research Service report puts a number on federal fossil fuel tax benefits — and the figure is both smaller than critics might expect...
Rep. Warren Davidson is heading into the November general election as a heavy favorite, but the six-term Republican from Troy, Ohio has spent the past year...
Ohio hasn't held a Senate special election since 1954. The one voters will decide this November — the Ohio Senate election 2026 — is shaping up as one of...
The House Appropriations Committee's FY 2027 Commerce, Justice, Science hearing on April 30 arrives as the Trump administration's cuts to Justice Department...
Congress is about to make decisions that will determine how much money funds the Capitol Police, the Library of Congress, the Congressional Budget Office,...
