Legislation

Senate Bill Seeks Coordinated U.S. Strategy in South China Sea

The South China Sea Strategy Act would require the State Department to develop a formal U.S. diplomatic strategy for the South China Sea as Washington seeks...

Politics

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...

Politics

Iran's Nuclear Compliance Can No Longer Be Independently Verified

Iran nuclear program compliance can no longer be independently confirmed after United States and Israeli strikes broke inspection continuity, according to a...

International Affairs

U.S. Declines USMCA Renewal; Pact Remains in Force

The United States declined to renew the pact in its current form at the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) joint review on July 1, while Canada...

Government Operations

How Army Force Structure Gets Built

Army unit numbers and types reflect personnel ceilings and funding choices more than direct congressional design, according to a new Congressional Research...

Congress

Earthquake Losses Reach Nearly $15 Billion Yearly

Portions of all 50 states, plus territories and the District of Columbia, face varying earthquake vulnerability as annualized losses reach $14.7 billion per...

Congress

Congress Weighs Suspension Of Phosphate Fertilizer Tariffs

Farmers facing elevated input costs sit have raised concerns over whether the United States should keep collecting tariffs that offset foreign subsidies on...

Congress

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...

Follow the Money

FEMA Faces $2B Backlog as Disaster Resilience Program Restarts

Hundreds of communities are waiting on more than $2 billion in disaster-resilience funding that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has yet to...

Elections

VoteVets Backs Democratic Candidates in Key Congressional Races

VoteVets directed millions of dollars in outside spending across candidates it both supported and opposed in the 2026 cycle, with the Iowa U.S. Senate race...

Elections

Senate Conservatives Fund Backs Republicans in Key Senate Races

The Senate Conservatives Fund has directed millions of dollars in political spending toward conservative Republican candidates in U.S. Senate races across...

Government Operations

2030 Census Citizenship Rules Proposed for Apportionment

Federal officials have proposed narrowing the apportionment count for the next enumeration to exclude foreign citizens who are not United States citizens or...

Lobbying Activity

AIPAC Reported Lobbying on Iran and Israel Defense Policy

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) filed an amendment to its fourth-quarter 2025 lobbying disclosure on Sept. 25, covering activity from...

Congress

Senate Passes Landmark Bill to Regulate College Sports

The Senate moved closer to an historic legislative step to have the government regulate college sports by passing S. 4668 last night in a 77-22 vote on...

Politics

GAO Says Agencies Aren't Sharing Data on Banned Chinese Tech

A recent audit found that federal agencies have sharply reduced spending with five Chinese telecommunications and surveillance companies covered by federal...

Politics

Temporary Protected Status Shrinks to 274,000 After Terminations

Temporary Protected Status fell from about 1.4 million people across 17 countries at the start of the second Trump administration to about 274,000 after...

Politics

State Department Lacks Anti-Terror Safeguards for West Bank Aid

The U.S. has poured more than $7.8 billion into the West Bank and Gaza since 1993, yet a new GAO report on anti-terrorism oversight of that assistance finds...