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Meg Louwagie, a congressional staff veteran with nearly 19 years of House experience, has joined Rep. Michelle Fischbach's office as a Senior Outreach...
Max Summer has joined the Special Committee on Aging (Senate) as a Professional Staff Member, effective May 1, 2026, working on health policy under Chairman...
Hannah Crossman has been elevated to Deputy Chief of Staff in Rep. Pat Fallon's (R-TX-4) office, a congressional staff change that comes after she spent...
Nearly 50,000 foreign nationals are currently serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, and more than 125,000 non-citizen veterans live in the United States today....
Georgia voters go to the polls Tuesday for the Senate Republican primary, choosing which candidate will face Democratic incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff in...
A federal contracting program designed to help minority-owned small businesses compete for government work is facing its most significant legal and...
A new Congressional Research Service report on CDC funding lays out in stark terms the distance between what Congress has appropriated for the nation's...
The House Veterans' Affairs Committee is set to take up one of the most sweeping VA reform packages in recent memory, with more than 20 bills and discussion...
The House passed the Monitor Accountability Act on May 14, 2026, in a vote that broke entirely along party lines, sending legislation to the Senate that...
Why it matters: The Senate Legislative Branch Subcommittee held a FY2027 legislative budget hearing on May 12 where senators were told the Capitol campus...
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's May 20 markup touches issues ranging from congressional gridlock over duplicative federal programs to...
The Thomas Massie 2026 election has become something far larger than a Kentucky congressional race. With more than $25 million in total ad spending, it is...
Tribal energy leasing sits at the intersection of two forces shaping Washington right now: the Trump administration's push for energy dominance and a...
The Department of Labor is moving to rewrite the rules governing how retirement plan managers select investment options for American workers, and the...
A high-stakes wireless spectrum auction set to begin June 2 is putting billions of dollars, national security priorities, and the financial survival of a...
The FEMA Review Council final report, approved at the Council's final meeting on May 7, 2026, lands at a moment when the future of federal disaster response...
The federal government funds 41 Federally Funded Research and Development Centers — a sprawling network of contractor-operated labs that touch everything...
A new Congressional Research Service report is pushing back on a sweeping legal opinion from the Trump administration's Justice Department, setting up a...
Why it matters: The House floor votes this week include H.R. 8845, the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2027, a $65...
Four of President Trump's federal judicial nominees are headed toward a confirmation vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee, and two of them carry...
The Senate Budget Committee's business meeting on S.Con.Res.33 on May 20 is the procedural linchpin between a House-passed budget resolution and the...
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee convenes Wednesday with the federal government's obligations to Native American tribes squarely on the table. The Trump...
Four bills covering veterans' gun rights, disability benefits, college athlete compensation, and a long-stalled Smithsonian museum are heading to the House...
The politics of a federal gas tax suspension are easy. The policy is not.