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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Tribal Water Crisis: Federal Rules Block Aid Despite $6B Need
Bureaucratic rules, outdated funding caps, and a lack of operations support are leaving tribal communities without reliable access to safe drinking water,...
Fed Education Oversight Halts as Student Absenteeism Hits Crisis
The U.S. Department of Education has failed in its oversight of chronic absenteeism just as the problem remains at crisis levels in American schools,...
Senate Judiciary Committee Will Vote on Pending Nominees
The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hold a "Business Meeting To Consider Pending Calendar Business" on Thursday, October 1. These executive...
Senate Health Panel Delays Bill as Nominees Await Vote
Chair Bill Cassidy (R-LA) recessed the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee markup on Sept. 24 without a final vote on the No Aid for...
Senate Finance Committee Advances Health and Tax Nominees
The Senate Finance Committee voted Sept. 24 to advance Gerard "Chris" Klomp to be deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by a...
GAO Finds Gaps in Support at Remote Military Installations
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Department of Defense (DOD) lacks a consistent definition of remote and isolated military...
And the Winner Is...
Tight midterm races are heating up. That means money. Lots of it.