Education
House Panel Will Examine School Choice Tax Credit
School choice has moved from a state-level debate to a federal policy question with real fiscal stakes. On Oct. 1, the Treasury Department and the IRS...
Senate Probes Rogue AI Agents, Eyes OpenAI Liability
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Disaster Management, District of Columbia, and Census held its fourth...
Senate Panel Warns of Narrowing Window on Nicaragua Crisis
The Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues...
Senate Grills Bank Nominees on Kazakhstan Mine Deal
The Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee held a nomination hearing Oct. 1 for four Trump administration nominees spanning Treasury, the...
Ways and Means Promotes Tax Law to Small Businesses in Tennessee
The House Ways and Means Committee held a field hearing Oct. 6 in Collierville, Tenn., titled "The One, Big, Beautiful Bill Delivering For Small Business,...
Senators Clash Over Golden Dome Costs, Arms Race Concerns
The Senate Armed Services Committee's Subcommittee on Strategic Forces held a Sept. 29 hearing to review an update on the Trump administration's Golden Dome...
GOP's Attack on Former Special Counsel Jack Smith Backfires
The oversight hearing held yesterday over former Special Counsel Jack Smith's prosecutions of President Trump produced tension over whether Smith abused...
House Panel Examines One Big Beautiful Bill Tax Law Rollout
Tax relief for small firms, production incentives for domestic manufacturers, and take-home pay for working families will be in focus as lawmakers assess...
Senate Grills Patent Director on Fees and Appeal Policies
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property held a session September 29 on Oversight Hearings To Examine The United States Patent And...
The Transgender Athlete Debate Reaches the Senate Floor. Again.
The defining moment was not what was said from the dais — it was who wasn't there.
Senate Venezuela Briefing to Focus on Post-Maduro Transition
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will receive a classified briefing on Venezuela as the country navigates a political transition following the U.S....
Senate Examines Trump Administration's Nuclear Waste Strategy
Congress is currently dealing with a long-standing deadlock regarding the proper place to permanently dispose of the United States' nuclear waste as the...
Lawmakers Examine Challenges Facing U.S. Generic Drug Manufacturing
U.S. generic drug manufacturers told lawmakers that low prices and foreign competition are making domestic production increasingly difficult to sustain, as...
Senate Intelligence Committee to Hold Closed Briefing on Sept. 29
The counterintelligence environment facing the United States has grown more active in recent weeks, with reported breaches of federal systems,...
Senate Judiciary Probes Flock's AI Cameras Amid Abuse Claims
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, chaired by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), held what The Hill described as the first congressional...
Senate Panel Votes Against Seeking Witness Immunity
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) voted 8–7 on September 23 to reject a resolution that would have directed Senate...
Senate Panel Will Examine Four Key Finance Nominations
Four nominees spanning housing finance, Treasury investment policy, and export credit are set to face questions from the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban...
FDA Nominee Faces Pressure on Independence, Vaccine Safety
President Trump's nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Heidi Overton, came under fire from Thursday when Republican Chair Sen. Bill...