Defense Spending To Take Center Stage in Congress Thursday
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense is scheduled to mark up the FY2027 defense appropriations bill on June 11 in a closed session at H-405...
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The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense is scheduled to mark up the FY2027 defense appropriations bill on June 11 in a closed session at H-405...
Why it matters: The House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development held an AI higher education hearing on June 3 that exposed a sharp...
Why it matters: The House Homeland Security Committee's FY2027 DHS budget review on June 3 put a newly confirmed DHS Secretary on the defensive from the...
Why it matters: The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment held a Clean Air Act hearing on June 3, examining ten bills that would roll back...
Why it matters: USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins appeared before the House Agriculture Committee on June 4 for her second oversight hearing as secretary, and...
Why it matters: The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection held a hearing June 4 on how frontier AI models are...
Three bills touching the rights and resources of Native American tribes will get their first public airing before the House Natural Resources hearing tribal...
A new Congressional Research Service report maps the legal landscape just as the Trump administration and Capitol Hill push competing visions for how...
More than 120 million Americans live in primary care deserts — communities where the ratio of patients to physicians makes routine care a logistical...
South Carolina Republicans head to the polls Tuesday, June 9, in a 2026 South Carolina governor primary where no candidate is polling near the 50 percent...
Four bills with consequences stretching from Alaskan Native villages to the Gulf Coast to disputed Pacific waters are headed for a House Natural Resources...
Michigan's veterans got a new electronic health record system in April. Now Congress is coming to find out if it's actually working.
The Coeur d'Alene Tribe has filed a new lobbying registration with S2R LLC, targeting Indian/Native American Affairs and Natural Resources before Congress.
A draft bilateral nuclear agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia is sitting on President Trump's desk, and the 119th Congress is preparing for...
The Congressional Research Service has updated its foundational report on congressional management of DOD officers, arriving at a moment when the Trump...
A new Congressional Research Service report on Spain US relations lands at a precarious moment: Washington and Madrid are locked in their most serious...
For-profit health and medical businesses — from digital health startups to medical device manufacturers — occupy an awkward position in the federal funding...
The Army's quiet exit from the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program is creating ripple effects across the joint force — and Congress is only beginning to...
A new Congressional Research Service report quietly published this week lays out the denaturalization legal framework in stark detail — and the picture it...
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is moving to reshape U.S. diplomacy on multiple fronts simultaneously — from the decimated ranks of the Foreign Service...
A wave of federal indictments and a Treasury Department warning about hundreds of billions in suspicious transactions have put Chinese money laundering...
Why it matters: The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's highway funding hearing on June 3 exposed a sharp divide over whether the Trump...
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has scheduled a business meeting for June 10 at 1:30 p.m. in 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building to vote on...
This is a pre-hearing alert. The House Education and Workforce Committee has scheduled a hearing for June 10, 2026 that carries significant implications for...