Elections
SuperPAC Spends More Than $500K Backing Democrats in Michigan
Millions of Michiganians spent $574,000 in the 2026 cycle across seven Michigan federal races, backing four Democratic candidates and opposing three...
UAE-U.S. Ties Tested by War, AI Deals, and Sudan Arms Concerns
U.S.-UAE relations are facing several simultaneous pressures. The UAE hosts U.S. forces, has purchased more than $33.5 billion in Foreign Military Sales...
Anchor Labs Lobbies Bitcoin Reserve, Digital Asset Tax Bills
Anchor Labs Inc., a computer and technology organization, disclosed third-quarter 2026 lobbying on S. 954 and H.R. 2032, the BITCOIN Act of 2025, which...
Homeland Security Funding Unresolved as December Deadline Nears
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has no full-year appropriation for fiscal year 2027, and a stopgap continuing resolution (CR) keeping the...
Diesel Export Ban Involves Transportation Policy Tradeoffs
With average highway diesel prices at $6.529 per gallon on Sept. 21, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, a Congressional Research...
U.S. Missile Stocks Face Years-Long Replenishment Gap
The United States may face meaningful constraints on its ability to sustain military operations and support allies after expending large quantities of...
Senate Farm Bill Would Delay State SNAP Cost-Sharing by One Year
A bill reported by the Senate Agriculture Committee (S. 5526) would delay by one year, from October 1, 2027, to October 1, 2028, when states must begin...
Federal Drought Policy Fragmented Across Agencies
The federal government generally defers to state primacy in surface and groundwater allocation, so states and local entities typically lead drought...
Evangelical Super PAC Spends $1 Million Backing Talarico in Texas
Evangelicals for a Better Future, an evangelical Christian super PAC, has reported $1 million in outside spending supporting James Talarico in the Texas...
Election Worker Safety Relies On States as Federal Support Shrinks
Federal law prohibits certain types of intimidation of or interference with election workers, while the current status of some federal executive branch...
Colorado River Framework Faces Gap Between Law and Water Supply
Colorado River water supplies nearly 40 million people and irrigates approximately 5.5 million acres across a basin spanning more than 246,000 square miles,...
H-1B Prevailing Wage Floors Would Rise Under Trump Proposal
The federal methodology for setting minimum wages that employers must pay temporary foreign workers in specialty occupations is the subject of a new...
Energy Department Faces New Legal Limits On Grid Emergency Power
The Trump administration's use of Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act, whose emergency language dates to 1935, to delay power plant retirements has...
Classwide Drug Scheduling Questioned Amid Synthetic Opioid Spread
The Drug Enforcement Administration has had difficulties keeping pace with new substances that chemists slightly alter to fall outside existing controls, a...
American Heart Association Lobbies on Health, Tobacco, Nutrition
The American Heart Association filed a lobbying disclosure that lists issue areas including budget and appropriations, tobacco, health issues, Medicare and...
And the Winner is....
With less than a month to go before the midterms, the SuperPAC spigots are flowing.
Klobuchar Tours Flood-Hit New Richland, Advances Two Bills
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) made news this week at a Senate hearing as well as advancing two bipartisan bills through the Senate this week.She also toured...
Security Is Strength PAC Spends Millions in South Carolina Senate Race
Security Is Strength PAC, a South Carolina-focused conservative super PAC, has spent millions in the state's U.S. Senate race, first supporting the late...