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The ALERT Act floor vote on April 16, 2026, produced one of the more striking displays of bipartisan agreement this Congress has seen — 396 to 10 — as the...
The U.S. Navy cannot pass a financial audit. That is not a bureaucratic footnote — it is a fundamental accountability failure affecting one of the largest...
The motion to discharge S.J.Res. 138 — a joint resolution that would have blocked a $151.8 million sale of 1,000-pound gravity bombs to Israel — failed in...
Why it matters: The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence convened a closed session on Tuesday, April 14, 2026, at 219 Hart Senate Office Building to...
A new Congressional Research Service report gives lawmakers a roadmap — and a warning — as the administration pushes ahead with USDA structure changes that...
Why it matters: The Helsinki Commission's Vatican diplomacy hearing, held April 13, 2026, landed at a politically combustible moment — convened on the same...
With the 250th anniversary of American independence approaching in 2026, Congress is using the milestone to examine whether the country's national parks and...
The Senate Appropriations Committee is set to scrutinize the Department of Health and Human Services' proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2027 on April 21 — a...
An estimated 181,000 veterans are currently incarcerated in the United States — many carrying untreated PTSD, traumatic brain injury, or military sexual...
Three bills targeting investor fraud, elder financial exploitation, and deceptive online promotions are on the table as the House Financial Services...
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee convenes today for a Great Lakes restoration hearing that arrives as federal funding for one of the...
The VA disability claims backlog isn't an abstraction. It represents veterans waiting — sometimes years — for decisions on benefits they earned through...
The Senate Judiciary Committee is moving through a steady pipeline of pending nominations — federal judges, U.S. attorneys, and Justice Department officials...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears before a House Appropriations subcommittee on April 16 carrying a portfolio of decisions that have already drawn legal...
A House Appropriations subcommittee will convene a DHS budget hearing on April 16 that puts three of the federal government's most politically charged...
Congress is about to scrutinize one of the most aggressive space and intelligence spending proposals in recent memory — behind closed doors. The FY2027...
The Defense Intelligence Enterprise hearing 2026, scheduled for April 16 at 7:30 p.m. in 2212 Rayburn House Office Building, lands at a moment when the...
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is in the middle of one of its most consequential stretches in years — suing states, monitoring suspicious oil...
The House Small Business Committee is set to hold a hearing on the gig economy April 21, and the stakes extend well beyond platform workers and app-based...
Transnational criminal networks have turned the internet into a revenue stream — extracting billions from Americans through romance scams, cryptocurrency...
American manufacturing competitiveness — and who controls the next generation of industrial robotics — is the subtext of a House Science, Space, and...
More than $7.5 million in lobbying expenditures. Legislation pending in the House. A fiduciary oversight system that controls how vulnerable veterans manage...
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence's closed hearing on the Fiscal Year 2027 budget requests for the Defense Intelligence Agency, United...
Congress is about to scrutinize the classified heart of a record $1.5 trillion defense budget request — and almost none of it will be visible to the public....