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Bills aimed at rebuffing Trump's Russia waivers filed in House - Defense
Rare out-of-session hearing draws top Banking Democrat’s ire
While the rest of the Senate was in recess, the Banking Committee held a hearing Thursday morning featuring Trump administration nominees — a move that the panel’s leading Democrat called out of bounds. The panel convened fewer than 12 hours after the Senate gaveled out for the midterm recess late Wednesday night. The chamber won’t […]
New critique of offshore wind clawbacks: Taxpayers lose out
The Trump administration’s buyouts of offshore wind leaseholders to stifle the nascent clean energy projects have drawn plenty of criticism from Democrats and environmental groups. Now comes a new argument from a nonpartisan watchdog group: Taxpayers are taking it on the chin from the controversial lease deals — which cost the Treasury nearly $4 billion […]
Lawmakers’ stock trading bill falls short in Senate
A bill to rein in stock trading by members of Congress did not clear a first procedural hurdle to advance in the Senate on Wednesday, after passing the House on a mostly party-line vote in July. Democrats tanked a motion to invoke cloture on proceeding to the bill in a 53-47 vote, which fell seven […]
Voluntary ratepayer protection bill blocked in Senate again
A bipartisan bill aimed at pressuring state utility regulators to reduce data center-related costs stalled in the Senate again Wednesday after a procedural vote to take up the bill fell short of the 60 supporters needed to move forward. The cloture vote on the motion to proceed was 57-43, keeping the measure bottled up for the […]
Housing groups challenge Trump funding clawback
The National Urban League and several local housing nonprofits nationwide challenged part of the Trump administration’s last-minute cancellation of congressionally appropriated funds. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday night in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, focuses on one portion of the $810 million cancellation the Trump administration announced last week, a $56 million […]
The most vulnerable senators of 2026, about a month out from Election Day
The once unlikely prospect of Democrats scoring a net gain of four seats to win the Senate majority now looks more plausible less than five weeks out from the midterm elections. Still, that would require the party to win in red states that haven’t elected a Democrat to the Senate in years. But strong recruits, […]
Blackburn sues Jack Smith over phone records
Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., sued former special counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday, alleging that his prosecution of the president also unconstitutionally pulled in her records as a member of Congress. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, moves a political fight over the sweep of Smith’s investigation into […]
DOD spent record fiscal 2026 funds at breakneck pace in final weeks
In the last two months of the fiscal year that ends Wednesday, the Pentagon spent tens of billions of mandatory dollars from last year’s reconciliation law, intensely accelerating spending from its unusually large overall budget for the year, congressional sources said this week. The Pentagon spends scores of billions of dollars each year, and the Sept. […]
The 10 most vulnerable House members just over a month before Election Day
With less than five weeks to go until the midterm elections, Republicans face historical headwinds as the party in power and must also contend with high gas prices amid the ongoing Iran war. But Republican groups enjoy a clear cash advantage as the party seeks to hold on to the House, and redistricting in several […]
Confessions of a political handicapper
ANALYSIS — What if we got it all wrong? That’s the question that usually goes through my mind at this point in every election cycle. Because 25 years of experience in analyzing elections has made me more humble, rather than more cocky. Political handicapping has a way of knocking people down a couple of notches. […]