Committee Tackles $442 Billion Global Scam Crisis
The global scam economy cost the world an estimated $442 billion in 2025, and the Joint Economic Committee is preparing to ask whether the U.S. federal...
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The global scam economy cost the world an estimated $442 billion in 2025, and the Joint Economic Committee is preparing to ask whether the U.S. federal...
The House Administration Committee markup scheduled for March 18, 2026, puts three bills on the table that touch a nerve across different constituencies:...
The House voted 211-209 to advance H.R. 7744, the Department of Homeland Security budget for fiscal year 2026, clearing a critical procedural hurdle without...
In a critical Senate Judiciary Meeting held February 5, 2026, lawmakers advanced a comprehensive package of legislation targeting financial fraud, online...
The Trump administration's 2026 National Defense Strategy — built around prioritizing China and the Indo-Pacific — collided with reality at a House Armed...
Social Security's trust fund is barreling toward insolvency as early as 2032, and the Senate Budget Committee is convening a Social Security hearing on...
This Trump issue summary captures a week in which the president's own party delivered a series of rare rebukes — on trade, spending, and procedural power —...
The Senate Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Science, Manufacturing, and Competitiveness held an AI safety hearing on March 3, 2026, that deliberately...
In a pivotal Senate hearing that could reshape maritime defense strategy, the U.S. Coast Guard unveiled an ambitious Coast Guard laydown plan that promises...
Why it matters: The House Education Committee's College Spending Hearing exposed stark ideological differences over college affordability, with Republicans...
The House Ethics Committee will proceed with a rare public trial of Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) next week, rejecting the congresswoman's...
The week of February 10, 2026, saw energy policy dominate congressional activity across multiple fronts. Here's what busy readers need to know:
The H.J.Res.142 floor vote is done — and it wasn't close to comfortable for either side. The joint resolution targeting the District of Columbia Council's...
1. Congressional oversight of military operations is intensifying. Democrats are pressing hard on the legality and transparency of U.S. military actions in...
The House Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee held its fifth hearing in the "Building an AI-Ready America" series on March 4, 2026,...
A legislative hearing conservation effort brought House lawmakers together to examine four critical wildlife protection bills, signaling a rare moment of...
The Senate Judiciary Committee's next round of Senate confirmation hearings lands at a moment when the Republican majority is pressing hard to reshape the...
Roll Call's "At the Races" column, published February 19, 2026, by Niels Lesniewski, Mary Ellen McIntire, and Daniela Altimari, surveyed the political...
Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller defeated former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. in the Democratic primary for Illinois' 2nd Congressional District on March 17,...
The House Agriculture Committee released a sweeping new farm bill last week, setting up a critical markup on February 23. Here's what's at stake.
1. EPA's endangerment finding repeal hits the Federal Register. The agency's formal rescission of its 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment finding — which the...
The big picture: Immigration policy remains one of the most contested arenas on Capitol Hill, and this week was no exception. Three threads dominated: an...
The Department of Defense's troubled background check system — now in its second decade of modernization — still lacks a reliable delivery schedule, the...
The big picture: The most consequential action in public lands management this month centers on three colliding forces: a bipartisan congressional rejection...