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Committee Advances 26 Bills on Global Security Threats
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee's June 2026 business meeting is poised to move 26 bills at once, spanning China human rights policy, Taiwan defense,...
FISA Surveillance Authority Ends as House Rejects Reauthorization
Why it matters: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — the authority that allows U.S. intelligence agencies to collect communications of...
Supreme Court Alters House Debate
Why it matters: The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet held a pharmaceutical patent...
New Trump Budget Ends Decades-Old Hunger Relief Program
A federal program that has delivered 2.5 billion meals and 273 million nights of shelter since 1983 is facing its most direct elimination threat yet. The...
House Passes Bill to Combat Surging Student Aid Fraud
The House passed the No Aid for Ghost Students Act on June 10, 2026, targeting a fraud scheme that has ballooned to alarming proportions in California's...
Senate HELP Committee Examines AI's Education Impact
AI tools are arriving in K-12 classrooms faster than schools, researchers, or policymakers can keep up — and the Senate HELP hearing K-12 AI scheduled for...
Federal Transit Funding Crisis Looms Before 2026 Deadline
Congress faces a hard deadline. The federal public transportation program, funded at $21.4 billion annually under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs...
House Approves $1.15T Defense Budget Amid Fiscal Clash
Why it matters: The House Armed Services Committee completed its markup of the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act on June 4, authorizing $1.15...
Senate HELP Committee Advances Critical Healthcare Bills
A package of healthcare bills heading to a Senate HELP Committee business meeting on June 17 touches nearly every corner of federal health policy — from...
House Passes Bill to Halt Suspected Fraudulent Federal Payments
The House passed the Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act (H.R. 8464) on Thursday by a vote of 218–206, with Republicans unified and Democrats nearly unanimous...
House Passes Landmark Fraud Prevention Bill
The House cleared the Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act on Wednesday in a 240–181 vote, with Republicans unified and most Democrats opposed. The H.R....
House GOP Pushes National Privacy Bill
Why it matters: The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade held a Secure Data Act hearing on June 3, examining H.R....
Legis1 Background: Rep. Lieu Slams Bipartisan AI Draft for Gaps in Coverage
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), the House Democratic Caucus Chair and co-chair of the House Democratic Commission on AI, publicly criticized a new bipartisan AI...
New Student Loan Repayment Plan May Affect Current Borrowers
A new Congressional Research Service report on Direct Loan repayment plans lands at a pivotal moment: the federal student loan repayment landscape is being...
Credit Repair Advocates Hire Ballard Partners for Lobbying
American Consumer Credit Advocates Inc. is entering the federal lobbying arena for the first time, registering Ballard Partners LLC just weeks after...
House Votes to Slash Union Contract Negotiations
The Faster Labor Contracts Act passed the House on Tuesday, 230 to 193, in a vote that flipped the usual partisan script: 210 Democrats voted yes, 192...
E15 Ethanol Fuel Blocked Despite Lack of Scientific Justification
A decades-old regulatory quirk is forcing Congress and the White House into an uncomfortable alliance — and a fight with the oil refining industry — over...
House Advances Fraud Bills Paired With Immigration Funding
Why it matters: The House Rules Committee convened on June 8, 2026, to set floor debate terms for a package of government fraud prevention measures...