CFPB Hearing Reveals Deep Divide Over Agency's Future
Why it matters: The House Financial Services Committee held a contentious hearing on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's semi-annual report...
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Why it matters: The House Financial Services Committee held a contentious hearing on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's semi-annual report...
The American Osteopathic Association filed its Q2 2026 lobbying disclosure, reporting $142,399 in expenditures as the group continues pressing Congress on...
Susan G. Komen for the Cure filed a Q2 2026 lobbying disclosure act filing showing the organization spent $130,000 on federal advocacy during the quarter....
The Native American Contractors Association filed a NACA lobbying disclosure showing expenditures of $170,000 for the Second Quarter of 2026, representing a...
The Senate Budget Committee's rescheduled business meeting on federal spending authority reflects ongoing tensions over executive power and the proper use...
Why it matters: The Trump administration is seeking to slash the Office of Space Commerce budget by eighty percent while simultaneously asking Congress to...
Why it matters: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Subcommittee on National Parks held a hearing on July 21, 2026, examining 25 bills that...
The House passed a floor vote bill on July 23rd that keeps the federal government funded through December 4th, preventing a shutdown when the fiscal year...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform filed its Second Quarter 2026 lobbying disclosure on July 20, 2026, reporting $120,000 in lobbying...
The House advanced a procedural resolution on Wednesday that will allow floor consideration of six bills, including a sweeping defense authorization measure...
Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death in the United States, claiming an estimated 39,345 lives in 2024 alone. As Congress grapples with...
Why it matters: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved two major Interior Department nominees on July 16, 2026, while splitting on a...
Congress and the Trump Administration battled sharply over the scale of U.S. foreign aid spending in FY2026, with lawmakers ultimately tripling the...
First Global Technology reported spending $150,000 on congressional lobbying in the second quarter of 2026, according to a lobbying disclosure filed July...
The House and Senate are pursuing fundamentally different approaches to regulating how social media platforms protect minors, and the divergence could...
Why it matters: A Senate committee hearing on pharmaceutical supply chain vulnerabilities revealed deep concerns about foreign control of American medicine....
Heritage Action for America filed a lobbying disclosure revealing $140,000 in expenditures for the second quarter of 2026. The conservative advocacy group...
Prison Fellowship Ministries ramped up its congressional lobbying activity in the second quarter of 2026, spending $120,000 on legislative advocacy...
New York Life Insurance Co. is focused on tax treatment of life insurance products and regulations affecting the insurance industry. The company's Q2...
Squire Patton Boggs ended its representation of the Association for Accessible Medicines as of June 30, 2026, according to an LDA termination filing. The...
Daimler Trucks North America increased its federal lobbying spending to $230,000 in the second quarter of 2026, marking a significant uptick from the...
Homelessness statistics 2025 reveal a troubling paradox: while overall homelessness declined modestly from the prior year, the number of chronically...
A congressionally established program designed to strengthen the federal government's cybersecurity workforce is failing at a massive scale. The Federal...
The federal government has released a comprehensive assessment of technologies and methods used to track and verify the geographic origin of food and other...