Senate Hearing Exposes FBI's "Arctic Frost" Targeting of Conservatives
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Senate Judiciary Hearing on "Arctic Frost" Turns Combative Over FBI Weaponization Claims
The Senate voted 54-37 to invoke cloture on the Markwayne Mullin confirmation, clearing the path for the former Oklahoma senator to become Secretary of...
The Senate voted 51–45 on March 20, 2026, to advance the Colin McDonald nomination to be Assistant Attorney General, clearing the cloture hurdle on PN786-9...
The United States is approaching a hard deadline in space. The International Space Station — America's most visible symbol of human presence in orbit for...
Thirty years after Congress rewrote the rules of American communications, the House is taking stock — and the stakes couldn't be higher. The...
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) is waging an all-out campaign to force the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act — and it's costing him among his own colleagues.
House Science Committee Markup Exposes Rift Over Quantum Funding
Sen. Michael Bennet is using a rarely-invoked legislative tool to push back on the Trump administration's decision to kill Colorado's regional haze plan.
The House Financial Services Committee's Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Artificial Intelligence Subcommittee is convening a financial regulators...
The U.S. is moving to open the ocean floor to commercial mining — and Congress is only now beginning to grapple with what that means scientifically,...
The National Flood Insurance Program is carrying more than $20 billion in debt, and the properties that flood repeatedly are a significant driver of that...
Why it Matters The House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to take up five distinct tax and revenue bills […]
The House Armed Services Committee's Military Personnel Subcommittee is set to examine one of the most consequential — and contested — restructuring efforts...
Two pieces of legislation with direct public safety consequences are moving through the House Energy and Commerce Committee markup on March 25 — and one of...
The House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to take up five distinct tax and revenue bills on March 25, 2026 — a package that spans disaster relief for...
A partial government shutdown that began February 14, 2026 — leaving TSA officers working without pay during spring break travel season — is the urgent...
Who runs U.S. diplomacy matters — and right now, a significant number of ambassador and senior State Department posts remain unfilled or in limbo. The...
Five bills that would reshape how the federal government manages oil, gas, coal, and mineral development on public lands are getting their first real...
Kellie Chong, a Capitol Hill staffing veteran with experience across both chambers, has landed as a Senior Policy Adviser in the personal office of Rep. Dan...
Sen. John Boozman's crypto regulation bill would hand the CFTC the keys to digital asset spot markets. But getting it across the finish line is another story.
Sen. Ron Wyden is back with a sharpened weapon in Democrats' fight against what they call presidential self-dealing — and this time, the Internal Revenue...
The Office of Personnel Management is in the middle of the most aggressive overhaul of federal civil service rules in a generation — and on March 25, 2026,...
More than 100,000 Department of Homeland Security employees have been working without pay for nearly six weeks — and the agency responsible for airport...
American small businesses are caught in an expensive vise: the Chinese Communist Party's economic practices are squeezing them from one side, and the...