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Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump's intended nominee for Treasury secretary, testifies during his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing on Thursday.

White House

Bessent warns of ‘devastating’ consequences if tax cuts lapse

Intended nominee for Treasury secretary also defends Trump's call for import tariffs

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted January 16, 2025 at 4:58pm

Doug Burgum addresses senators at his confirmation hearing in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Thursday.

Policy

Burgum promises energy dominance at Interior

By David Jordan
Posted January 16, 2025 at 4:09pm
Lee Zeldin greets Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., right, before his Senate Environment and Public Works confirmation hearing on Thursday.

Policy

Zeldin faces climate change heat on path to confirmation

By Valerie Yurk
Posted January 16, 2025 at 4:23pm
Rep. Rick Crawford participates in a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on June 27, 2024.

Congress

Crawford named Intelligence panel chair, replacing Turner

By Allison Mollenkamp
Posted January 16, 2025 at 3:54pm
California Rep. David Valadao, the chair of the Republican Governance Group, leaves a House Republican Caucus meeting in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Congress

Republican Governance Group wants to live up to its name

By Daniela Altimari
Posted January 17, 2025 at 5:00am
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, here outside the Supreme Court on Feb. 26, 2024, is the next senator from Florida. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Florida AG Ashley Moody picked for Rubio’s Senate seat

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted January 16, 2025 at 11:36am, Updated at 8:12pm
The FDA authorized the 20 Zyn products under a premarket tobacco product application process granted under a 2009 tobacco control law.

FDA authorizes first nicotine pouches

By Sandhya Raman
Posted January 16, 2025 at 4:50pm

PolicyNote’s AI-powered platform helps you track, analyze, and report on policy changes—all in one place.

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted January 15, 2025 at 11:59am
Ashley Moody, Florida’s attorney general, speaks with the media outside the Supreme Court last year after oral arguments over controversial Florida and Texas social media laws.

Next Florida senator pursued conservative policies in courts

By Michael Macagnone
Posted January 16, 2025 at 3:46pm
Eric Scott Turner, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to become secretary of Housing and Urban Development, testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee on Thursday.

Spending more or spending better animates Turner’s HUD hearing

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Posted January 16, 2025 at 3:24pm

At the Races: Stand by me

By Daniela Altimari, Mary Ellen McIntire and Niels Lesniewski
Posted January 16, 2025 at 2:30pm

2025 Global Policy Outlook: Your Blueprint for Navigating the Coming Year

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted December 11, 2024 at 7:10pm
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., used his first meeting as chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to hold a vote on the Trump-era immigration policy.

Senate panel votes in support of ‘Remain in Mexico’ border policy

By Chris Johnson
Posted January 16, 2025 at 2:29pm
Progressive staffers sent a letter Thursday proposing a 32-hour week for Hill staff during district work periods, and the same for district staff when members are in Washington.

A 32-hour week? It could work for Congress, staff say

By Jim Saksa
Posted January 16, 2025 at 10:43am
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be secretary of Health and Human Services, meets with Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Jan. 9.

How RFK Jr. drove mistrust of a cancer prevention vaccine

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted January 16, 2025 at 7:00am

Experts Share Advice on Navigating 2025 State Sessions

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted December 11, 2024 at 7:12pm

Capitol Ink | Senate game show

By R.J. Matson
Posted January 16, 2025 at 7:00am
Allison Riggs, shown outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022, is battling to preserve her narrow victory in North Carolina's Supreme Court election. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

When the will of the voters meets a political power grab

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted January 16, 2025 at 6:00am
President Joe Biden delivers his farewell address to the nation Wednesday from the Oval Office of the White House. (Mandel Ngan/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Oligarchy is taking shape’: Biden issues warnings as he bids nation goodbye

By John T. Bennett
Posted January 15, 2025 at 10:17pm

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By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 23, 2020 at 11:36am
Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump’s intended nominee for Treasury secretary, meets with Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, right, in the Hart Senate Office Building on Jan. 7.

Democrats: Bessent avoided Medicare tax on hedge fund earnings

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted January 15, 2025 at 9:02pm
Russ Vought, picked to lead the Office of Management and Budget, arrives for his confirmation hearing in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday.

Vought gets chilly reception from Senate Homeland Security Democrats

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted January 15, 2025 at 6:46pm
Some members of Congress are looking to Donald Trump to boost their hopes for a congressional stock trading ban.

Could a stock trading ban for Congress get new life in the Trump era?

By Justin Papp
Posted January 15, 2025 at 6:45pm
Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be attorney general, testifies Wednesday during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing.

Attorney general pick avoids missteps at confirmation hearing

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted January 15, 2025 at 6:21pm
Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski is the most senior senator to first enter the chamber as an appointee.

Some stick around: Appointed senators and their fates

By Jason Dick
Posted January 15, 2025 at 5:37pm
President-elect Donald Trump speaks to reporters at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Jan. 7. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Trump’s idea to rebrand Gulf of Mexico would face hurdles — if he’s even serious

By John T. Bennett
Posted January 15, 2025 at 4:25pm
Chris Wright, the expected secretary of Energy nominee, testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday.

Wright promises to ‘unleash’ American energy as DOE head

By David Jordan
Posted January 15, 2025 at 3:46pm
In this photo illustration, bottles of the generic prescription pain medication buprenorphine are seen in a pharmacy in Boca Raton, Florida. The narcotic drug is used as an alternative to methadone to help treat opioid use disorder.

DEA, HHS finalize rule allowing telehealth drug treatment

By Jessie Hellmann and Sandhya Raman
Posted January 15, 2025 at 3:40pm
Marlin Stutzman is pictured in the Capitol on Tuesday. The Indiana Republican is once again a congressman.

How to feel reenergized in Congress? Come back after eight years

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted January 15, 2025 at 3:36pm
Duffy shakes hands with senators before his confirmation hearing in the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on Wednesday.

Transportation pick Duffy soars through confirmation hearing

By Valerie Yurk
Posted January 15, 2025 at 3:21pm
The Supreme Court building.

Supreme Court airs concerns on child access to online porn

By Michael Macagnone
Posted January 15, 2025 at 3:06pm
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be secretary of state, testifies during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing Wednesday.

Rubio says Ukraine needs leverage to deter Russia in the future

By Rachel Oswald
Posted January 15, 2025 at 3:06pm
Red Dye No. 3 can have deleterious health effects. The ring is a strawberry Ring Pop (red no. 40 and red no. 3).

FDA moves to ban Red Dye No. 3, years after groups petitioned agency 

By Lia DeGroot and Sandhya Raman
Posted January 15, 2025 at 2:59pm
A close-up view of cigarettes. The Food and Drug Administration Wednesday released a proposed rule that would limit the amount of nicotine in cigarettes and some other combustible tobacco products.

FDA moves to limit nicotine in cigarettes, some other tobacco

By Sandhya Raman
Posted January 15, 2025 at 2:49pm
Pam Bondi, Trump's proposed nominee for attorney general, arrives Wednesday for a confirmation hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Pam Bondi tells Senate panel she would end ‘partisanship’ at DOJ

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted January 15, 2025 at 11:48am
Pete Hegseth said during his confirmation hearing Tuesday that he was focused on increasing the military’s lethality.

Hegseth sticks to script at his confirmation hearing

By Mark Satter
Posted January 14, 2025 at 4:57pm
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be Homeland Security secretary, Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., left, and Hogan Gidley, aide to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., are seen in Hart Building in December.

Kristi Noem largely glides unnoticed amid other Trump picks

By Chris Johnson
Posted January 14, 2025 at 2:24pm, Updated at 4:51pm
Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff, here at a Senate Judiciary hearing in September, is among five vulnerable senators for 2026, according to Inside Elections' initial battleground map.

The smallest initial Senate battleground ever?

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted January 14, 2025 at 4:09pm

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