Pressure mounting on Austin as GOP senators launch inquiry
Austin has been hospitalized since Jan. 1 due to complications from surgery to treat prostate cancer, his doctors disclosed Tuesday.
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Senators to punt on border, fly home after FAA, nominations
Any nominees that have not been confirmed by Jan. 1 would have to be resubmitted by the president next year. Briana Reilly contributed to this report.
House sends final NDAA to Biden’s desk
biggest in two decades, as well as an increase in troops’ basic allowance for housing payments.The bill would add $1.2 billion more than the White House requested for defense procurement and nearly $1
Senate will be in next week as border talks pick up steam
Another issue that will keep senators from flying home is the need to take up a three-month extension of Federal Aviation Administration programs which would otherwise lapse on Jan. 1.
Supreme Court to decide issue tied to hundreds of Jan. 6 cases
Circuit, which reversed Nichols in a 2-1 decision. Judges Florence Pan and Justin Walker held that the statute could apply to congressional proceedings, not just documents.
High-speed routes biggest winners in latest rail funding round
The Trump administration announced in 2019 it was terminating a federal agreement to provide nearly $1 billion after the California High-Speed Rail Authority "failed to make reasonable progress on the
Top Senate appropriators detail full-year stopgap impacts
The exact level of defense spending in a full-year CR remains unclear; it could be flat-funded or subject to a 1 percent haircut, depending on the White House budget office’s eventual interpretation.
Framework appropriations deal elusive as session winds down
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., speaks during a news conference on abortion rights in the Capitol on Nov. 1.
A tale of House Republicans: The best and worst of times
This also was the case among independents (69 percent to 21 percent), who view spending as the problem by more than 3 to 1.
War supplemental stymied in Senate over border holdup
Democrats added $4 billion in extra military aid to Ukraine to last into next November, and $1 billion in funding to shore up security at U.S. nonprofits and religious institutions facing renewed threats
Trump initially sidesteps ‘dictator’ question before adoring Iowa crowd
"He is the No. 1 who’s cognitively … not good. … Twenty-five years ago, he was never one of the brightest light bulbs."
How Democrats of faith see devout Speaker Mike Johnson
During a floor speech this year in support of abortion rights, Scholten quoted Jeremiah 1:5, "I knew you before I formed you, and I placed you in your mother’s womb," emphasizing that it says "mother’s
EV tax credit rules would clarify restrictions on foreign-made batteries
The first deadline for automakers begins on Jan. 1, when vehicles containing any battery components that are manufactured by a foreign entity of concern will not receive the tax credit.
Roy urges Johnson to reject appropriations ‘side deals’
both sides The debt limit law included a mechanism intended to impose pain felt on both sides of the aisle if by next spring Congress is still passing temporary CRs for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1,
Utah district elects Celeste Maloy to succeed Stewart
Filings with the Federal Election Commission show Maloy had $120,000 in her account on Nov. 1 to Riebe’s $30,000.
Appeals court rules private groups can’t file lawsuits over key Voting Rights Act section
In a 2-1 ruling, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit upheld a district court opinion that threw out a legal challenge to a redistricting map for Arkansas’ state house.
US arms aid to Israel tests whether humanitarian law applies
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Defense Appropriations ranking member Betty McCollum of Minnesota, wrote to President Joe Biden to urge him to call for a cease-fire to protect the roughly 1 million
The inescapable ad campaign for a wonky drug policy debate
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a longtime pharma foe, routinely cites a statistic that pharma lobbyists outnumber members of Congress by more than 3-1.Â
Here’s why Republicans underperformed on Election Day — yet again
Republicans find themselves in this difficult situation, they should consider three serious questions that clearly emerged out of the 2022 election and were reinforced in the most recent 2023 election. 1)
Key study of Camp Lejeune cancers in limbo as cases go to court
Under the "elective option," those who contracted any of five "Tier 1" diseases — kidney cancer, liver cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia or bladder cancer — are eligible for $150,000 if they spent