Smithsonian Director Faces GOP Scrutiny Over Historical Narratives
Why it matters: The Trump administration is using federal oversight to reshape how American history gets told at taxpayer-funded institutions. The House...
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Why it matters: The Trump administration is using federal oversight to reshape how American history gets told at taxpayer-funded institutions. The House...
Anthony Fauci will face questioning from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, in what amounts to a...
The hearing, held July 22, 2026, at 2:15 PM, highlighted fundamental tensions over marketplace safeguards. Industry witnesses countered that new mandates...
Why it matters: The Senate Appropriations Committee examined President Trump's supplemental funding request on July 21, 2026, as the administration defended...
Why it matters: The Trump administration defended its sweeping trade agenda before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, even as legal...
Why it matters: The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology advanced earthquake hazard reduction legislation on July 21, 2026, signaling...
Why it matters: The Trump administration faces a credibility crisis over Haiti. On one hand, it's deploying military resources and spending $117 million...
Why it matters: The House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced 29 pieces of legislation on July 21, 2026, marking a sweeping effort to reshape policy on...
Why it matters: The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted on July 22, 2026 to advance 17 presidential nominees to the full...
The House passed H.R. 8884 by a vote of 232 to 207, advancing legislation that would extend the Social Security Administration's authority to test new...
The Roll Call Vote 280 in the 119th Congress, 2nd session showed support across party lines, though not without reservations from some members who...
Why it matters: The House Financial Services Committee's Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance held an oversight hearing on the Federal Home Loan Bank...
Why it matters: The House Agriculture Committee's commodity markets subcommittee held a hearing on Tuesday to examine how federal regulators oversee...
The House passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 with a narrow 216-212 vote, delivering a defense spending blueprint that...
Dominic Hastings has joined the Diana DeGette staff as Press Secretary and Digital Director, marking another shift in the Colorado congressional office's...
Campaign for Sustainable Drug Pricing terminated its lobbying relationship with Whitmer & Worrall LLC on June 4, 2026, according to a filing disclosed July 21.
The Fiber Broadband Association is maintaining steady lobbying pressure as Congress debates the future of broadband deployment. Federal broadband policy is...
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee is examining five bills that would reshape how the federal government funds and implements tribal water rights...
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee is moving to block the transfer of key education offices to other federal agencies while...
Artificial intelligence is making it easier for scammers to target seniors with convincing impersonations and fabricated evidence. A Senate hearing this...
The Senate advanced Benjamin M. Flowers' judicial nomination to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on a party-line cloture vote that underscored the deep...
The House passed H.R. 8800, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027, along largely partisan lines on Wednesday. The H.R. 8800 floor vote...
A Congressional Research Service report updated this month lays bare the disconnect between federal shark management policy and the biological reality...
Congress remains sharply divided along party lines, but a small group of lawmakers in both chambers continue to break from their party's majority on a...