Should college athletes be employees? House panels say no
It comes as some universities grapple with how to directly share revenues with students after a watershed settlement resolving antitrust lawsuits brought by former Division 1 athletes.
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‘That’s where I wanted to be’ — from appropriations to Au Bon Pain scoops
Roll Call reporters Kathryn Lyons, left, and Katherine Tully-McManus pose in front of the House Members’ Dining Room in the Capitol on Oct. 1, 2019. The restaurant had recently been opened to the public during recess.
Democrats confront appropriations trust deficit with White House
"The violence that the Supreme Court has allowed the administration to do to Congress’s Article 1 powers, combined with the violence to the appropriations process that is being done through this and presumably
From traffic to vasectomies, Congress takes aim at DC
That stopgap measure was itself a blow for local officials, imposing a roughly $1 billion budget cut on the District.
Thunder halts softball game, but lawmakers make it rain
In the early going, the teams were closely matched, and the game remained tied 1-1 through two innings. But the lawmakers broke things open in the third off an RBI triple from Rep.
Duffy: Air traffic control overhaul to cost $31.5 billion
"The key is we’re going to deploy these assets when we still have airplanes inside, and doing that safely is the No. 1 priority."
Lawmakers hope to modify crucial dates in reconciliation bill
Their legislation would move up the Medicaid coverage prohibition from Oct. 1, 2026, to July 4, 2025, the day Trump signed the bill into law.
Pay caps are a ‘slap in the face’ for some in Capitol Police
The department requested nearly $1 billion overall for the coming fiscal year, while Senate appropriators have proposed $855 million instead.
House subcommittee advances NIL framework for college sports
The latest congressional effort to create a nationwide NIL standard comes just a month after a federal judge approved a settlement resolving antitrust lawsuits brought by former Division 1 athletes.
GOP narrowly advances rescissions package to Senate floor
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., announced after the votes Tuesday night that an agreement had been reached to end debate on the measure at 1:30 p.m.
Adelita Grijalva wins Democratic primary for late father’s seat in Arizona
Malvido Jr., who called for a higher minimum wage and universal health coverage, and retired businessman Patrick Harris Sr., who proposed a $1 billion cap on individual wealth through establishing a "greed
Senate NDAA would hike defense spending by $32 billion
This year, the Trump administration has touted its planned investments in national defense, which when including $113.3 billion packaged in the reconciliation bill that just cleared Congress, tops $1 trillion
Appropriators advance Legislative Branch bill without GAO cuts
The Senate Appropriations Committee was mostly united behind the bill on Thursday, voting 26-1 to favorably report it.
House panel wants anti-drone systems at US defense facilities
In that campaign, Ukraine clandestinely inserted drones into Russia hidden inside trucks and then, on June 1, remotely launched dozens of the weapons against Russian military airfields. Â
Draft House NDAA demands details on Trump’s Golden Dome
Even a less expansive system, if it included space assets, could cost more than $1 trillion, leading experts said.
With ‘big’ bill in rearview, Trump doesn’t have a new to-do list for Congress
A July 9 deadline on Sunday became an Aug. 1 target — it was earlier set for April 9.Â
Trump slams Putin, touts self-made tariff deals and muses on gold leaf
foreign governments letters informing them of the rates they would pay to export goods into the United States — that is unless they strike a deal on a revised trade arrangement with Washington before Aug. 1.
UN agencies in dire straits amid threatened US funding cuts
If Congress this month approves the White House’s request to cancel $1 billion in federal funding for the United Nations system, experts say it will further exacerbate an already crisis-level financial
Supreme Court allows Trump mass layoffs to move forward
The order directed the Office of Management and Budget to create a 4 to 1 departure to hiring ratio across the federal government and directed federal agencies to initiate "large scale reductions in force
Planned Parenthood challenges GOP reconciliation law
Planned Parenthood estimates that if the provision is not enjoined, it would threaten health care for more than 1 million Medicaid beneficiaries who seek services annually at its clinics, requiring the