Data and News Shaping the Political Landscape
The Senate voted 51–45 on March 20, 2026, to advance the Colin McDonald nomination to be Assistant Attorney General, clearing the cloture hurdle on PN786-9...
The House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to take up five distinct tax and revenue bills on March 25, 2026 — a package that spans disaster relief for...
A veterinary sedative that has become one of the most dangerous adulterants in the illicit drug supply is heading toward a Senate Judiciary Committee vote —...
The fight over sanctuary city policy in the Senate is escalating. On March 25, 2026, the Senate Judiciary Committee's Constitution Subcommittee will hold a...
The House voted 233–185 to pass H.R. 2189, the Law-Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act, a policing technology legislation measure that would carve...
Why it matters: The House Rules Committee convened a pivotal hearing on February 9, 2026, examining three consequential pieces of legislation that could...
The House Oversight Committee is expanding its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's network, issuing new subpoenas targeting key associates who may have...
The global scam economy cost the world an estimated $442 billion in 2025, and the Joint Economic Committee is preparing to ask whether the U.S. federal...
In a critical Senate Judiciary Meeting held February 5, 2026, lawmakers advanced a comprehensive package of legislation targeting financial fraud, online...
The House Ethics Committee will proceed with a rare public trial of Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) next week, rejecting the congresswoman's...
The Senate Judiciary Committee's next round of Senate confirmation hearings lands at a moment when the Republican majority is pressing hard to reshape the...
The Senate Judiciary Committee's child trafficking hearing on March 3, 2026, exposed a sharp contradiction at the center of federal policy: the Trump...
"Arctic Frost" isn't about melting ice caps. It's the FBI code name for the Special Counsel Jack Smith investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020...
The Senate Budget Committee held a combative sanctuary cities hearing on March 10, 2026, with Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) using the session to build...
Roughly 114,000 children are waiting to be adopted out of the foster care system, while only about 54,000 were adopted in the most recent fiscal year,...
Why it matters: The hearing hearing on March 18, 2026 being held by The House Judiciary Committee's Oversight Subcommittee on March 18 sits at the...
Why It Matters H.Res.390, a bipartisan House resolution recognizing National Foster Care Month, has been introduced and referred to the […]
In a Congress where bipartisan agreement on virtually anything is rare, 47 House members — 30 Democrats and 17 Republicans […]
In a decisive move that signals significant judicial system modernization, Congress has passed the Bankruptcy Administration Improvement Act of 2025, a...
## What Happened Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) publicly rebuked Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner after Krasner compared ICE agents to "wannabe Nazis"...
