Congress
House Passes Bipartisan Water Infrastructure Bill
The House overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan water infrastructure bill that would authorize and modify Army Corps projects nationwide, including...
GOP's Attack on Special Counsel Jack Smith's Backfires
The oversight hearing held yesterday over former Special Counsel Jack Smith's prosecutions of President Trump produced tension over whether Smith abused...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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,...