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Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, is congratulated by Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., after a play in the first inning of the Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park on Wednesday.

Heard on the Hill

Republicans extend winning streak at Congressional Baseball Game

For the fifth time in recent years, Democrats come up short on the field

By Hunter Savery
Posted June 11, 2025 at 11:04pm

Former Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant is running for Congress as an independent.

Campaigns

Meet 11 House candidates — or potential ones — who don’t fit the mold

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted June 11, 2025 at 4:02pm
Iowa state Rep. J.D. Scholten is running for Senate. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Campaigns

Iowa Democrats see signs of optimism for 2026 despite state’s hard-right turn

By Daniela Altimari
Posted June 11, 2025 at 5:49pm
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., shown at a news conference on April 16, named new members to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on Wednesday, after firing all 17 former panel members earlier this week.

Policy

Kennedy’s vaccine panel contains skeptics, nonspecialists

By Lia DeGroot, Sandhya Raman and Jessie Hellmann
Posted June 11, 2025 at 9:08pm
Helen Stjerna, secretary-general of A Non Smoking Generation, speaks from her office in Stockholm.

Policy

In Sweden, teen anti-tobacco movement stalled by pouches, snus

By Sandhya Raman
Posted June 12, 2025 at 7:00am

Capitol Ink | Birthday boy

By R.J. Matson
Posted June 12, 2025 at 7:00am
Rep. Mikie Sherrill is hoping to become the first Democratic woman to be elected New Jersey governor. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Rep. Mikie Sherrill wins Democratic nomination for New Jersey governor

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted June 10, 2025 at 9:03pm, Updated June 11, 2025 at 5:47pm

Separate signal from noise in energy policy

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted May 19, 2025 at 4:57pm
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., talks with reporters outside the Capitol Hill Club after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on Tuesday, June 10, 2025.

House adopts fixes to keep ‘big, beautiful bill’ filibuster-proof

By David Lerman
Posted June 11, 2025 at 5:08pm
President Donald Trump arrives at the White House from Camp David on Monday.

Appeals court extends pause on ruling that blocked Trump tariffs

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 11, 2025 at 3:40pm
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth arrives for the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Hegseth gets bipartisan pushback for defense spending strategy

By Caroline Coudriet
Posted June 11, 2025 at 3:30pm

Track and shape policy faster than ever.

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted January 15, 2025 at 11:59am
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Bessent, House Democrats spar over budget package’s debt boost

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted June 11, 2025 at 3:21pm
Bryan Bedford, nominee to be Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, testifies during his confirmation hearing in the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee in the Russell Senate Office Building on Wednesday, June 11, 2025.

FAA nominee Bedford defends pilot training rule position

By Valerie Yurk
Posted June 11, 2025 at 3:02pm
Workers on Tuesday set up a reviewing stand near the White House for President Donald Trump’s military parade, slated for Saturday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Trump wants tanks ‘all over the place’ at parade; Democrats see ‘egotistical’ show

By John T. Bennett
Posted June 11, 2025 at 3:02pm

Read the latest issue

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 23, 2020 at 11:36am
Hunter S. Thompson is pictured at the Democratic National Convention in New York City on July 15, 1976.

Fear and Loathing at Signature Theatre: The Hunter S. Thompson musical

By Jason Dick
Posted June 11, 2025 at 12:23pm
Republican Rep. August Pfluger of Texas sponsored a bill, which the House passed Tuesday, aiming to overturn a local D.C. law that allows noncitizens to vote in local elections.

House passes pair of bills in rebuke to DC

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 10, 2025 at 7:07pm
President Donald Trump watches a military demonstration Tuesday at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.

From LA to Fort Bragg to DC, Trump shifts into a military mindset

By John T. Bennett
Posted June 10, 2025 at 6:38pm
Customs and Border Protection officers and the California National Guard are seen staged Monday in front of the federal building in Los Angeles as protesters begin to rally on the fourth day of protests.

Trump mulls rare use of Insurrection Act over Los Angeles protests

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 10, 2025 at 6:02pm
Photojournalists surround Marty the Moose as staffers unload a freight elevator in the Hart Building on Tuesday.

If you move a moose through the Senate

By Jackie Wang
Posted June 10, 2025 at 5:26pm
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrives for the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Democrats clash with Hegseth over Guard deployment, shipbuilding

By Briana Reilly
Posted June 10, 2025 at 4:39pm

Capitol Lens | Laugh track

By Tom Williams
Posted June 10, 2025 at 4:28pm
Former Maine House Speaker Hannah Pingree is running for governor.

Hannah Pingree, daughter of Maine congresswoman, enters race for governor

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted June 10, 2025 at 2:11pm

Capitol Ink | Big, beautiful baseball

By R.J. Matson
Posted June 10, 2025 at 7:00am
New Jersey Rep. Mikie Sherrill faces five other Democrats in the primary to succeed term-limited Gov. Phil Murphy. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

New Jersey voters pick their nominees in open governor’s race

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted June 10, 2025 at 6:00am
Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., arrives for a vote in the Capitol on May 13.

Parties split on deploying troops against California protesters

By John M. Donnelly
Posted June 9, 2025 at 9:20pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., flanked by House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., and Rep. Mark Messmer, R-Ind., conducts a news conference on June 4. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

House considers Trump cuts as Senate Republicans work on reconciliation bill

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted June 9, 2025 at 6:30am, Updated at 9:15pm
Tennessee Rep. Mark Green will resign later this year.

Tennessee Rep. Mark Green will resign after next budget vote

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted June 9, 2025 at 7:52pm
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., right, talks with Chairman Bill Cassidy, R-La., during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing in May.

Kennedy makes ‘clean sweep’ of key vaccine advisory panel

By Sandhya Raman
Posted June 9, 2025 at 6:57pm
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, seen here in January, recently presented a supplemental budget to deal with an unexpected cut from Congress. Now House Republicans aim to tee up three D.C.-related measures for floor action.

House eyes cuts to DC’s autonomy as local budget fix gathers dust

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 9, 2025 at 3:30pm, Updated at 6:21pm
ICE officers and California National Guard troops confront protesters outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles on Sunday. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump tests support for immigration policies with troop deployment in LA

By John T. Bennett
Posted June 9, 2025 at 5:27pm, Updated at 6:03pm
Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, is seen outside the White House on May 12.

‘We Dissent’: NIH Workers Protest Trump Policies That ‘Harm the Health of Americans’

By Kaiser Health News
Posted June 9, 2025 at 4:30pm
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent arrives for a House Financial Services Committee hearing on May 7.

CBO: Debt limit ‘X-date’ likely not until mid-August at earliest

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted June 9, 2025 at 4:18pm
Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., walks though the Capitol after a vote on Tuesday, June 3, 2025.

In the Spotlight: Roger Wicker

By Nick Eskow
Posted June 9, 2025 at 11:41am, Updated at 4:03pm
The WorldPride Parade travels down Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest on Saturday. Washington was the host city for this year‘s event.

Capitol Lens | Roll Pride

By Bill Clark
Posted June 9, 2025 at 3:36pm
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., walks to the Senate subway after a vote in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.

Senate Banking would zero out CFPB funding in reconciliation

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Posted June 9, 2025 at 3:28pm

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