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House Appropriations ranking member Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., seen here on June 12, said, “It’s astonishing that for all the talk about finding and rooting out waste, fraud and abuse, House Republicans would defund the watchdog that is tasked with precisely that role.”

Congress

House subcommittee advances Legislative Branch spending bill

Nonpartisan congressional watchdog agency is targeted for political retribution, Democrats argue

By Justin Papp
Posted June 23, 2025 at 9:29pm

Attorney General Pamela Bondi arrives to testify at the House Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations panel hearing on Monday.

Congress

Bondi defends Justice Department proposal to end standalone ATF

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted June 23, 2025 at 6:50pm
Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, and ranking member Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., attend the markup of the fiscal 2025 Senate budget resolution on Feb. 12. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Policy

Injunction, immigration provisions caught in ‘Byrd rule’ review

By Ryan Tarinelli and Chris Johnson
Posted June 23, 2025 at 4:39pm
FBI agents huddle in a Green Isle, Minn., neighborhood on June 15, as law enforcement agencies searched for a suspect in the killing of state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband. The slayings have resurfaced debates about lawmakers’ online footprints.

Congress

Worried about political violence, some want to scrub home addresses

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 23, 2025 at 4:58pm
Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur, here at an event in Toledo last year, is the longest-serving woman in congressional history. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Campaigns

Longest-serving woman in Congress says she’s not stopping anytime soon

By Daniela Altimari
Posted June 23, 2025 at 6:47pm

Capitol Ink | War powers crypt

By R.J. Matson
Posted June 24, 2025 at 7:00am
Members of the Roll Call softball team circa 2003.

‘Sold!’ There was no way to say no to Roll Call

By Brody Mullins
Posted June 24, 2025 at 6:00am

Transcripts of presidential remarks and congressional hearings within 60 minutes

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted June 13, 2025 at 3:33pm
The Discovery shuttle is seen at the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center on Aug. 20, 2019, in Chantilly, Va., during a meeting of the National Space Council.

Houston, we still have a problem: Shuttle move blocked by ‘Byrd rule’

By Peter Cohn
Posted June 23, 2025 at 3:43pm, Updated at 5:54pm
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz hold a news conference at HHS headquarters on Monday. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Major insurers pledge to improve preauthorization

By Sandhya Raman
Posted June 23, 2025 at 5:10pm
President Donald Trump, flanked, from left, by Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, addresses the nation from the White House on Saturday. (Carlos Barria - Pool/Getty Images)

Trump’s Iran strikes put potential heirs Vance and Rubio in spotlight

By John T. Bennett
Posted June 23, 2025 at 3:48pm, Updated at 4:37pm

Track and shape policy faster than ever.

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted January 15, 2025 at 11:59am

Capitol Lens | The masked ringer

By Bill Clark
Posted June 23, 2025 at 1:36pm
Head to head? If President Donald Trump, right, seen here at his 2017 inauguration with President Barack Obama, runs for a third term, maybe Obama should threaten to do the same, Wetherbee writes.

If Trump runs for third term, why not Obama?

By Brandon Wetherbee
Posted June 23, 2025 at 1:33pm
A fan cools off in mist before the Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park on June 12, 2024.

With extreme heat ahead, US readiness appears to be on ice

By Mike Magner
Posted June 23, 2025 at 11:52am

Read the latest issue

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 23, 2020 at 11:36am
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., has introduced a war powers resolution.

This week: Congress debates war and reconciliation

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted June 23, 2025 at 6:11am
President Donald Trump, flanked, from left, by Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, addresses the nation from the White House on Saturday. (Carlos Barria/Pool/Getty Images)

Trump orders strikes on Iran nuclear targets, including key facility

By John T. Bennett
Posted June 21, 2025 at 9:28pm, Updated at 11:03pm
Tanks roll down Constitution Avenue Northwest in Washington on June 14 during the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary parade.

‘Two weeks’: GOP hawks left twisting on Iran after Trump resorts to familiar crutch

By John T. Bennett
Posted June 20, 2025 at 1:55pm
The facade of the Supreme Court building.

Supreme Court allows civil lawsuits against Palestinian groups

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 20, 2025 at 11:58am
California National Guard members stand outside a federal building in Santa Ana, Calif., on Wednesday. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Appeals court backs Trump control of National Guard in LA, for now

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 20, 2025 at 10:01am
A girl makes a face for a photo as tanks roll down Constitution Avenue Northwest during the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary parade, which was also President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday, on June 14.

Photos of the week | June 13-19, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted June 20, 2025 at 9:13am
Then-Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., speaks about his amendment as then-Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., listens during a 2010 Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee markup.

American businesses need a stable and competitive tax rate

By Blanche Lincoln and Saxby Chambliss
Posted June 20, 2025 at 9:05am
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, center, testifies with other intelligence leaders before the House Intelligence Committee on March 26.

Fact-checking Trump, Gabbard comments on Iran nuclear capability

By FactCheck.org
Posted June 20, 2025 at 8:54am
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Senate GOP mulls shielding rural hospitals from Medicaid cuts

By Sandhya Raman and Jessie Hellmann
Posted June 20, 2025 at 6:02am
Activists for and against trans rights protest outside the Supreme Court in December, before oral arguments in a case about a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors.

Supreme Court upholds Tennessee youth transgender care ban

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 18, 2025 at 11:49am, Updated at 6:47pm
New York Democratic Reps. Jerrold Nadler, right, and Dan Goldman speak at a news conference Wednesday at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan after being barred from entering and inspecting Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding cells.

DHS tightens protocol for lawmaker visits to immigration facilities

By Chris Johnson
Posted June 18, 2025 at 5:46pm
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday on the Biden administration use of the autopen.

Senate Republicans echo Trump allegations on Biden autopen use

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted June 18, 2025 at 4:09pm

At the Races: The politics of war

By Niels Lesniewski, Mary Ellen McIntire and Daniela Altimari
Posted June 18, 2025 at 3:15pm
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as workers install a large flag pole on the South Lawn of the White House on Wednesday. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

On Iran strikes messaging, Trump aides opt to run it up the flagpole

By John T. Bennett
Posted June 18, 2025 at 3:07pm
Former Rep. Anthony D'Esposito, R-N.Y., testifies Wednesday during his confirmation hearing for inspector general of the Department of Labor.

Anthony D’Esposito looks to go from cop to congressman to inspector general

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 18, 2025 at 2:45pm
Capitol Police officers direct a jogger away from the Senate Plaza on Tuesday. The department has placed the plaza in restricted mode as a security measure.

‘We need more money’: Lawmakers call for security boost after Minnesota killings

By Justin Papp and Jim Saksa
Posted June 17, 2025 at 5:56pm, Updated June 18, 2025 at 1:45pm
The Social Security Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund would lose the ability to pay full benefits to retirees starting in the first quarter of 2033.

Outlook darkens for Social Security, Medicare solvency

By Caitlin Reilly and Jessie Hellmann
Posted June 18, 2025 at 1:40pm

Capitol Ink | Hit parade

By R.J. Matson
Posted June 18, 2025 at 1:16pm
New York Sen. Charles E. Schumer reads Roll Call on March 12, 2016, as he arrives for a policy luncheon in the Capitol.

Capitol Lens | The eyes have it

By Chris Hale
Posted June 18, 2025 at 7:30am
Sen. Josh Hawley has pushed back on other cuts to Medicaid, but asked whether he was concerned about people inadvertently losing coverage due to paperwork or systems issues with the work program, he said simply, “I’m for work requirements.”

Medicaid work requirements pose huge challenges for states

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted June 18, 2025 at 7:02am
Massachusetts Rep. Silvio Conte sits in his red car named “The Judge” outside of the Capitol in 1989.

Capitol Lens | It’s been a Hill of a ride, so far

By Chris Hale
Posted June 18, 2025 at 6:30am

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