Nuclear Security Gains, Science Programs Lose Ground
The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee is set to examine a Department of Energy fiscal year 2027 budget request that proposes a striking...
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The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee is set to examine a Department of Energy fiscal year 2027 budget request that proposes a striking...
The H.R. 7726 floor vote landed along a clean partisan line Wednesday, with House Republicans defeating a Democratic motion to recommit the No Funds for...
The Senate voted 53–0 along party lines to proceed to the S. 2 reconciliation bill, clearing the procedural hurdle to begin floor debate on the centerpiece...
Why it matters: The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee held an oversight hearing on the U.S. Forest Service on June 2, 2026, with...
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee convenes Thursday for a markup that touches on how the federal government manages billions of dollars...
Why it matters: Secretary of State Marco Rubio faced a barrage of Democratic criticism over the Iran War and proposed foreign aid cuts at a Senate Foreign...
House Republicans are forcing two of the country's largest urban school districts into a congressional spotlight, using subpoena power to compel testimony...
The House Armed Services Committee is set to mark up H.R. 8800, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027, on Thursday — a vote that will...
A new CRS report on surface transportation authorization history lands at a critical moment — with billions in federal highway and transit funding set to...
The Trump administration's dismantling of the EPA's Office of Research and Development — the agency's independent science arm — is coming under direct...
America250.org Inc. — the nonprofit organizing the U.S. Semiquincentennial — has filed a lobbying registration disclosure, signaling its formal entry into...
The National Confectioners Association's 2026 Q1 in-house filing discloses $330,000 in lobbying expenditures — the highest quarterly in-house spend on...
A new Congressional Research Service report maps a legal battlefield that could reshape how millions of Americans access medication abortion — and puts the...
The Senate Armed Services Committee's closed markup of the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act is where roughly $1.15 trillion in defense spending...
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education, and Related Agencies convenes Friday for a markup of the FY2027 Labor HHS Education Bill —...
American colleges and universities are being asked to produce an AI-ready workforce at a moment when the federal government hasn't decided what that even...
The Trump administration's decision to slap 100% tariffs on patented pharmaceuticals — combined with an aggressive push to tie American drug prices to the...
The House Judiciary Committee is about to put the Southern Poverty Law Center on trial in all but name. When Chair Jim Jordan gavels in "Manufacturing Hate,...
The House Education and Workforce Committee's Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions is convening an NLRB hearing preview that arrives at a...
The Senate Appropriations Committee's markup of three FY2027 spending bills lands at a moment of genuine fiscal confrontation between Congress and the White...
The House Appropriations Committee is moving to lock in spending levels for two of the most consequential domestic policy portfolios in the federal...
Fentanyl from foreign criminal networks is killing Americans at a scale that has reshaped public health and law enforcement priorities — and the Senate...
More than 15 months into the Trump administration's second term, the United States still lacks confirmed ambassadors in Seoul and Canberra — two of its most...
China announced new export controls on fentanyl precursor chemicals on May 22 — less than two weeks before the Beijing fentanyl hearing scheduled for...