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Cherry blossoms bloom in Lower Senate Park on Wednesday with the Capitol in the background. Congressional staffers looking for jobs this March describe a landscape further complicated by “DOGE’d” federal workers. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Heard on the Hill

Spring brings no relief for Dem job-seekers on the Hill

Flood of feds looking for work has added to the usual post-election churn

By Jim Saksa
Posted March 27, 2025 at 5:00am

Dr. Marty Makary, nominee to be commissioner of the FDA, appears before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for his confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington on March 6.

Policy

Targeting FDA user fees would leave agency gutted, experts say

By Lia DeGroot
Posted March 27, 2025 at 7:00am
Pennsylvania Democrat Janelle Stelson, who lost a bid for the House in 2024, is weighing another challenge to GOP Rep. Scott Perry.

Campaigns

Some losing House candidates get a second look for 2026

By Daniela Altimari
Posted March 26, 2025 at 6:48pm
CIA Director John Ratcliffe and FBI Director Kash Patel, left, arrive at a House Select Intelligence Committee hearing Wednesday that featured questions on the Signal chat about attacks against Houthis in Yemen that included a reporter.

Congress

Democrats seek criminal probe over group chat on Houthi strike

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted March 26, 2025 at 6:16pm
A Maracas Ice Pop is prepared during the Washington Nationals media preview day at Nationals Park on Friday, March 21, 2025.

Podcasts

The Thai popcorn does not detract

By Jason Dick and Brandon Wetherbee
Posted March 27, 2025 at 10:26am
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., conducts a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday. Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., also appear. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Budget timeline moves up in Senate as GOP preps flexible targets

By David Lerman and Caitlin Reilly
Posted March 27, 2025 at 10:35am

Capitol Ink | Distress Signal

By R.J. Matson
Posted March 27, 2025 at 7:00am

Track and shape policy faster than ever.

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted January 15, 2025 at 11:59am
Rep. Derek Schmidt worked for a pair of senators in the 1990s. Above, he testifies at a Senate hearing in 2019, during his time as Kansas attorney general.

Thirty years later, Rep. Derek Schmidt is back on the Hill

By Jackie Wang
Posted March 27, 2025 at 6:15am
Donald Trump looks down from the presidential box in the Opera House at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on March 17.

The shrinking of American culture can only lead to groupthink and frustration

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted March 27, 2025 at 6:00am
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., conducts a news conference after the Senate luncheons in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Democrats had months to head off Schumer’s no-win dilemma

By Steven Pearlstein
Posted March 27, 2025 at 5:30am

How to Track and Monitor Executive Orders

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 5, 2025 at 11:43pm
The E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington, D.C.

Appeals court keeps temporary hold on Trump deportation move

By Chris Johnson
Posted March 26, 2025 at 7:35pm
President Donald Trump greets members after addressing a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, March 4, 2025.

White House halts long-running HIV research network for youth

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted March 26, 2025 at 4:41pm

Capitol Lens | Bloomsday

By Bill Clark
Posted March 26, 2025 at 4:22pm

Read the latest issue

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 23, 2020 at 11:36am
Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La., in August 1988.

Louisiana’s former Sen. J. Bennett Johnston dead at 92

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted March 26, 2025 at 4:19pm
JD Vance speaks with Donald Trump on Jan. 20 during an inauguration ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda before they were sworn in as vice president and president respectively. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images file photo)

Signal posts shed light on Vance’s views on military force and foreign policy

By John T. Bennett
Posted March 26, 2025 at 4:16pm
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., references a copy of the Signal chat about attacks against Houthis in Yemen that included a reporter, while questioning witnesses during the House Select Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday.

Bipartisan chorus seeks probes after Signal group chat incident

By Briana Reilly and John M. Donnelly
Posted March 26, 2025 at 4:13pm
From left, FBI Director Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe testify during the House Select Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday.

Gabbard stands by use of Signal chat as Democratic ire grows

By Caroline Coudriet
Posted March 26, 2025 at 3:49pm
A beam of sunlight breaks through the cloudy skies to illuminate the Supreme Court in Washington.

Supreme Court sounds skeptical of ending FCC program

By Michael Macagnone
Posted March 26, 2025 at 3:43pm
Katherine Maher of NPR and Paula Kerger of PBS prepare to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency on Wednesday.

Greene calls for ‘complete and total’ defunding of NPR, PBS

By Jim Saksa
Posted March 26, 2025 at 3:07pm
The Supreme Court building in Washington.

Supreme Court upholds federal regulation of ‘ghost guns’

By Michael Macagnone
Posted March 26, 2025 at 10:54am
The research and statistics arm of the Department of Education is key to helping students succeed, Winston writes. Above, fourth graders eat lunch at an elementary school in Maryland last year.

We must protect NAEP, the gold standard for education accountability

By David Winston
Posted March 26, 2025 at 6:29am
Martin Makary, nominee to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, appears before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for his confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 6.

Senate confirms Makary for FDA commissioner

By Lia DeGroot
Posted March 25, 2025 at 9:35pm
A man holds a D.C. flag during a House Oversight hearing in 2020.

In latest effort to curb DC, House panel advances ICE bill

By Jim Saksa
Posted March 25, 2025 at 8:17pm
Jay Bhattacharya, confirmed Tuesday as director of the National Institutes of Health, is shown as he prepared to testify during his confirmation hearing in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on March 5.

Senate confirms Bhattacharya to lead NIH

By Sandhya Raman
Posted March 25, 2025 at 7:31pm
Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger said the force has made changes in the wake of recent screening failures.

Capitol Police chief addresses ‘human failure’ that led to security lapses

By Justin Papp
Posted March 25, 2025 at 6:12pm

Capitol Lens | Mixed Signal

By Bill Clark
Posted March 25, 2025 at 4:54pm
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator nominee Mehmet Oz prepares to testify during his confirmation hearing in the Senate Finance Committee on March 14.

Senate Finance advances Oz nomination to lead CMS

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted March 25, 2025 at 4:12pm
A flag with the Environmental Protection Agency logo.

Supreme Court weighs where ‘good neighbor’ pollution lawsuits go

By Michael Macagnone
Posted March 25, 2025 at 3:44pm
One-year-old River Jacobs is held by his mother, Caitlin Fuller, while he receives an MMR vaccine March 1, 2025 in Lubbock, Texas.

Measles outbreak sends warning for future of infectious disease

By Nina Heller
Posted March 25, 2025 at 3:22pm
Rep. Darrell Issa has introduced a bill to limit nationwide injunctions from district court judges.

Republican lawmakers take aim at nationwide injunctions

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted March 25, 2025 at 12:56pm
Visitors walk across the Supreme Court plaza to enter the building.

Supreme Court to weigh congressional power to delegate

By Michael Macagnone
Posted March 25, 2025 at 11:48am

Capitol Ink | Democrats at sea

By R.J. Matson
Posted March 25, 2025 at 7:00am
Sports thrive in every aspect of the game when they lean into diversity, inclusion and equity, Wetherbee writes. Above, the field is seen during Friday’s media preview day at Nationals Park.

Organizations that believe in DEI should follow Major League Baseball’s lead

By Brandon Wetherbee
Posted March 25, 2025 at 6:00am
Jayanta Bhattacharya, nominee for director of the National Institutes of Health, prepares to tesify at his Senate confirmation hearing on March 5. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Trump cancels NIH grants on equity research

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted March 24, 2025 at 6:18pm

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