House Committee Aims to Solve Missing Indigenous Women Crisis
Why it matters: The House Natural Resources Committee held an MMIP congressional hearing on July 14, 2026, examining how emerging technologies and forensic...
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Why it matters: The House Natural Resources Committee held an MMIP congressional hearing on July 14, 2026, examining how emerging technologies and forensic...
Why it matters: Kevin Warsh appeared before Congress for the first time as Federal Reserve chairman on July 14, 2026, facing sharp questioning about...
Kelly Loeffler, the Small Business Administration Administrator, faced pointed criticism on July 14, 2026, as lawmakers questioned the Trump...
The House Financial Services Committee is preparing to scrutinize the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network at a time when FinCEN faces significant...
Across hospital ships, field hospitals, and aircraft carriers where combat medics and military physicians treat service members in the most austere...
Why it matters: Two Supreme Court justices appeared before Congress on July 14, 2026, to defend a 7.2 percent budget increase driven largely by security...
The Department of Defense has obligated nearly $2.64 billion for southern border security operations since the start of fiscal year 2025, according to a...
The Space Force is operating with a quarter of its authorized positions unfilled, and the military service has no clear system to determine how many...
The federal government spends billions annually on federal employee training, yet agencies often lack clear strategies to measure whether those investments...
The Department of Agriculture faces a mounting backlog of unfulfilled federal agency open recommendations from the Government Accountability Office, raising...
Genetically modified bacteria could help clean up some of the nation's most stubborn environmental contamination, but a new Government Accountability Office...
A Government Accountability Office report released this week found that Border Patrol's annual reports to Congress are missing essential data on rescue...
A House Agriculture Subcommittee is examining customer protections and market integrity in sports prediction markets as Congress grapples with a largely...
The Senate confirmed Jeffrey Kuntz as a federal judge on Thursday in a straight party-line vote, marking another judicial victory for Republicans who have...
A confirmation vote on the Hal Duncan OMB nomination alongside appointments to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency and manage the Department of...
In this week's Mark Kelly news out of Washington, Sen. Mark Kelly pressed federal agencies on issues directly touching Arizona: delayed PFAS cleanups at...
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology is scheduled to examine how to protect America's telecommunications...
The federal health insurance marketplace is failing to protect millions of consumers from unauthorized actions by agents and brokers. A new Government...
In a moment when Congress rarely agrees on anything, a Medicare reform bill has brought Republicans and Democrats together. House Resolution 9693,...
The Smithsonian Institution is caught between a White House push to reshape how the museum tells American history and congressional Democrats claiming the...
A Supreme Court decision from late June has upended the legal foundations of independent regulatory agencies. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources...
Arizona's 6th Congressional District is shaping up as one of the nation's most expensive and consequential battlegrounds heading into November.
Republicans muscled through the National Security Appropriations Act 2027 on Thursday, securing passage of HR 8595 with virtually no Democratic support. The...
The House Small Business Committee is convening an oversight hearing on the SBA's Office of Entrepreneurial Development as lobbying activity around federal...
