Law, Crime, and Family Issues

Judiciary Panel Rushes Judicial Nominees With Major Stakes

The Senate Judiciary Committee is moving through a steady pipeline of pending nominations — federal judges, U.S. attorneys, and Justice Department officials...

Banking, Finance, and Domestic Commerce

CFTC Under Fire: Regulating Digital Assets, States

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...

Congress

VA Pension Oversight Hearing Examines Vulnerable Veterans' Protection

More than $7.5 million in lobbying expenditures. Legislation pending in the House. A fiduciary oversight system that controls how vulnerable veterans manage...

Defense

Congress Scrutinizes Record Defense Budget Spending

Congress is about to scrutinize the classified heart of a record $1.5 trillion defense budget request — and almost none of it will be visible to the public....

Government Operations

Can the CIA Do its Job as it Sheds More Than 1,000 Positions?

The Fiscal Year 2027 budget request for the Central Intelligence Agency arrives before the House Intelligence Committee against a backdrop of significant...

Congress

Intelligence Restructuring: Savings Vs. Oversight

The Trump administration's FY2027 budget request proposes a significant restructuring of the U.S. intelligence community — folding a key DHS intelligence...

Congress

USTR Budget Hearing Determines Future Trade Policy Direction

Ambassador Jamieson Greer will face House appropriators on April 16, 2026, at a moment when U.S. trade policy has been more disruptive — and more...

Agriculture

Committee Examines Unauthorized Forest Service Restructuring Plan

The House Appropriations Committee's Forest Service budget hearing on April 16 arrives at a moment of acute institutional upheaval for the agency. The USDA...

Congress

Committee Examines Voter Roll Management Before 2026

With the 2026 midterms less than seven months away, the House Administration Committee is convening Secretaries of State on April 16 to examine how states...

Finance

Is The Federal Government Too Reliant on Short-Term Debt?

The United States is projected to add an average of $2 trillion to its national debt every year through 2036. That is not a worst-case scenario. That is the...

Government Operations

Committee Questions VA Spending on Veterans Program

The House Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity is set to scrutinize one of the VA's most consequential benefit programs — one that serves hundreds of...

Congress

Masked Cuts: Committee Scrutinizes Energy Budget

The Trump administration's FY 2027 Department of Energy Budget request lands Congress in a familiar but high-stakes position: a headline number that looks...

Congress

HHS Head Robert F. Kennedy Jr. To Face Scrutiny Over Budget Cuts, Expanded Mandate

The House is set to put the Department of Health and Human Services under the microscope on April 17, 2026, as the Trump administration's proposed budget...

Congress

Committee Weighs Expulsion for Ethics Violations

The House Ethics Committee's sanctions hearing for Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) puts a sitting member of Congress on the edge of expulsion — one...

Social Welfare

Adoption Funding Hearing Exposes HHS Cuts Contradiction

Why it matters: The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies held a child welfare permanency...

Congress

Public Lands Bills Stall as DOGE Cuts Cripple Agencies

Why it matters: The House Natural Resources Committee's Federal Lands Subcommittee convened March 26, 2026, to examine four public lands bills — and the...

Government Operations

Congress Warns $370B Building Crisis Demands Strategy, Not Speed

Why it matters: The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government convened a hearing March 26 on the Federal Buildings Fund...