Senate Panel Examines Tribal Water Rights Settlement Funding
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee is examining five bills that would reshape how the federal government funds and implements tribal water rights...
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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...
The House Judiciary Committee advanced the Permanent Trump Secure Border Act on July 21, 2026, marking a significant victory for the House Freedom Caucus...
Why it matters: The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a hearing on July 21, 2026, examining three bills designed to...
Why it matters: The House Financial Services Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions held an oversight...
Medical device giant Medtronic disclosed $1.18 million in lobbying expenditures for the second quarter of 2026, according to a filing submitted July 21. The...
Congress faces a critical deadline on Medicare counseling services for seniors. The mandatory funding that powers the State Health Insurance Assistance...
Fifteen years after the U.S. backed military intervention that toppled Muammar al-Qadhafi, Libya remains a fractured state split between rival governments,...
The Communications Workers of America filed its second quarter lobbying disclosure on July 21, 2026, reporting $431,000 in expenditures as the union...
Toyota Motor North America spent nearly $2 million on federal lobbying in the second quarter of 2026, focusing on tax policy and financial regulation. The...
Why it matters: Federal agencies identified $186 billion in improper payments in fiscal year 2025, and the Trump administration is backing legislative...
Why it matters: The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet convened on Tuesday, June 30,...
George Humphreville has been promoted to Legislative Correspondent for Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, the Rhode Island Democrat, beginning June 1, 2026. The...
The House Energy and Commerce Committee's Health Subcommittee advanced three bills targeting counterfeit pill production on July 15, 2026, marking a...
Eric Wu Legislative Correspondent has been promoted within Senator Catherine Cortez Masto's Nevada Senator staff. Wu began his new role as Legislative...
Charles Alldredge has been promoted to Counsel at the Senate Judiciary Committee, a significant step up in the legislative staff changes 2024-2026 period....
J.M. Smucker Co. disclosed a $120,000 lobbying engagement with Miller Strategies LLC for the second quarter of 2026. The filing marks a continuation of the...
The National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association is maintaining steady pressure on federal infrastructure and regulatory policy. The group's Q2 2026 lobbying...
The House is moving to pass H.R. 9770, a continuing appropriations bill designed to keep the government funded through early December and avert a shutdown...
