Data and News Shaping the Political Landscape
The House passed H.R. 8365, the Monitor Accountability Act, on May 14, 2026, by a vote of 219-207, with Republicans united in support and Democrats nearly...
The Senate Armed Services Committee's Air Force hearing 2026 puts a record $338.8 billion budget request under congressional scrutiny at a moment when the...
Classified intelligence assessments that have leaked to the press in recent weeks paint a picture sharply at odds with the administration's public narrative...
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence meets behind closed doors on May 20 at 219 Hart Senate Office Building, and the timing could hardly be more...
With the 2026 midterms months away, the federal infrastructure that has long underpinned American election security is reportedly fraying. The Cybersecurity...
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'...
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is weighing a run in Florida's majority-Black 20th Congressional District after Republican-led redistricting transformed her...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Vice President JD Vance traveled to Bangor, Maine on Thursday for what Politico's "Vance takes fraud fight to Maine" described as the first trip dedicated...
The Congressional Research Service quietly updated one of its most practical publications this month, a guide that tells congressional staff where to find...
A new Congressional Research Service report on FD&C Act preemption lands at a moment when the boundaries between federal and state authority over consumer...
Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks reshaped the American intelligence apparatus, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is...
The Senate Armed Services Committee is set to examine a Department of the Navy budget request that would represent one of the most significant expansions of...
State and local governments are under siege from cybercriminals and nation-state actors, and Congress is now examining whether the federal government is...
An estimated 240 to 300 million gallons of raw sewage poured into the C&O Canal National Historical Park and the Potomac River after a 72-inch sewer line...
A cybersecurity firm's report published just 11 days before the hearing documented the first known AI-assisted cyberattack on water utility infrastructure,...
The Senate passed cloture on S.Res. 526, a congressional pay resolution that would withhold senators' salaries during government shutdowns, on a 99-0 vote...
