Politics

SuperPAC Shuffle: SLF Takes Aim in Kansas

Republican-side groups booked $226,000 in airtime against $31,000 for Democratic-side groups, a 7.2-to-1 ratio, reversing the prior day, when...

Politics

TD PAC Spends on Supporting Florida's Angie Nixon

TD PAC, a Chicago-based super PAC, has concentrated nearly all its reported spending on supporting Democrat Angela "Angie" Nixon in Florida's U.S. Senate...

Congress

Noelle Cardi Joins Sen. Jack Reed's Office as Staff Assistant

Noelle J. Cardi has joined Sen. Jack Reed's personal office as a staff assistant, effective Nov. 1, 2026. The position is based in Washington, D.C. No...

Elections

Stronger Nation Super PAC Targets Republicans in Senate Races

Stronger Nation, a Los Angeles-based hybrid PAC, has concentrated its independent expenditures on opposing Republican candidates and supporting Democratic...

Elections

HMP Breaks Into Top Three With $281.8 Million as Election Day Nears

For the win: SLF PAC. This SuperPAC supports Republican candidates in competitive states, leads at $349.0 million, up from $301.3 million a week earlier....

Politics

Proposed Rule Strips Noncitizen Eligibility for Four Tax Credits

Treasury and the IRS have proposed a rule that would, for the first time, classify the refundable portions of four federal tax credits as federal public...

Politics

Congress Runs on Stopgap Through Dec. 11 With Pay Frozen at $174K

Congress has not enacted a regular fiscal 2027 legislative branch appropriations bill, leaving the government funded only through Dec. 11 on a continuing...

Government Operations

Oversight Options for Congress on Federal Civil Service Categories

The federal civil service is divided into three categories with different rules for hiring, pay and adverse actions. President Trump has used executive...

Legislation

Gun Dealers Can Now Screen Employees Through Background Checks

Gun dealers and other federally licensed firearms businesses will be able to run FBI criminal background checks on employees who handle weapons, under a...

Social Welfare

New Eligibility Rules Proposed For Health Insurance Marketplace Enrollees

Health insurance Marketplace applicants and enrollees would face new eligibility and verification checks before coverage begins, under a proposal the...

Lobbying Activity

ATS Group Lobbies on US Investment in North Macedonia via Valcour

ATS Group, a North Macedonia client, reported lobbying on U.S. investment under the Manufacturing issue code in its third-quarter 2026 filing.

Government Operations

DHS Orders DeepSeek Removed From Federal Agency Systems

Federal civilian agencies must exclude DeepSeek products from information technology procurements and remove covered products already deployed on their...

Politics

Asylum Grant Rate Falls to 3% as Abandonments Surge

The defensive asylum grant rate in U.S. immigration courts fell from 25% in fiscal 2017 to 3% in the third quarter of fiscal 2026, a 22-percentage-point...

Politics

House Republicans Push Pennsylvania on School Choice

The House Committee on Education and Workforce held an Oct. 23 field hearing in Bethlehem, Pa., titled “More Choices, Brighter Futures: Expanding Education...

Lobbying

Leadership Conference Lobbies ICE Biometric Ban As Bill Stalls

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is lobbying to support S. 3779, the ICE Out of Our Faces Act, which would ban U.S. Immigration and...

International Affairs

Pentagon Puts Iran War Cost at $47.1 Billion; Lawmakers React

Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) posted Oct. 28 that a new Pentagon estimate puts the Iran war cost at $47.1 billion, excluding damage to U.S. military bases in...

Politics

Aging Federal Oceanographic Fleet Faces Gaps

The federal oceanographic research vessel fleet has had no government-wide inventory since March 2016, and NOAA's 15 remaining research and survey vessels...