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16-03-2026 Vol 19

Year: 2025

Air travel will be ‘worse’ this summer, lawmakers warn — as FAA gives infuriating update on system fixes, staffing issues

Air Traffic Organization deputy COO Franklin McIntosh revealed in an exchange with Klobuchar that the agency is only on track to hire 2,000 air traffic controllers by the end...

Reps. Blake Moore, Debbie Dingell, Jan Schakowsky doze off during grueling overnight committee work

At least three House lawmakers were caught snoozing in the middle of marathon committee work that bled into Wednesday morning to stitch together President Trump's "big, beautiful" agenda bill....

The Library of Congress is in limbo as GOP leaders question a Trump takeover

Quiet resistance from top Republicans has kept Trump officials out — for now.

Alaska Republican supports GOP SNAP plan — that hits his home state hard

Alaska’s lone House lawmaker says he supports Republicans’ plan to pay for their megabill by shifting some food aid costs to states — a move that hits Alaska and...

Democrats grill Noem on Abrego Garcia and two deported US children

A House Homeland Security Committee meeting on reconciliation devolved into a slew of criticism on Trump’s biggest immigration controversies this term.

Hamstrung House ethics watchdog was flooded with messages in Q1

A new report shows the House's ethics watchdog received thousands of messages from the public during the first three months of 2025 — while it was prohibited from opening...

RFK Jr. says ultra-processed food is a ‘genocide’ on Native Americans

"One of my big priorities will be getting good food, high-quality food, traditional foods onto the reservation, because American Indians, because processed food for American Indians is poison," he...

House tax writers advance GOP bill after marathon, contentious hearing

The legislation now heads to the full House, but with a major blank to fill in on how much to expand a deduction for state and local taxes.

Dems go after GOP online fundraising after Trump attacks ActBlue

The three congress members' inquiry into platforms like WinRed and a Trump-affiliated cryptocurrency come after Republicans targeted the Democratic small-dollar fundraiser ActBlue.