Category: Congress
March 13, 2025
Congress
House Oversight Committee launches probe into deadly plane crash
In wake of the January crash near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport that killed 67 people, leaders of a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee are launching a bipartisan...
March 13, 2025
Congress
Johnson taps Boeing exec Curtis Beaulieu as top tax adviser
House Speaker Mike Johnson is naming Boeing official Curtis Beaulieu his top tax adviser, sources familiar with the decision say, filling a big hole on his staff as a...
March 13, 2025
Congress
White House withdraws CDC director nominee
Dave Weldon had faced growing scrutiny over his anti-vaccine views.
March 13, 2025
Congress
Capitol agenda: Senate Dems’ last-minute shutdown gambit
Senate Democrats are still not committing to helping Republicans pass a seven-month funding stopgap, edging the country closer to a government shutdown as they attempt to force a vote...
March 13, 2025
Congress
Trump’s Capitol Hill agenda in limbo
House and Senate Republicans are sinking deeper into an impasse over how to advance President Donald Trump’s vast legislative agenda.
March 13, 2025
Congress
Chuck Schumer is in a real shutdown mess. Can he lead Democrats out of it?
Despite pressure from the left to hold firm, some Democratic senators seem headed for an off-ramp.
March 12, 2025
Congress
‘Be careful about this’: Warnings abound as GOP considers writing off tax cuts
Republicans will discuss the accounting maneuver with President Donald Trump on Thursday.
March 12, 2025
Congress
How many GOP senators ‘support DOGE’? Rand Paul pushes to vote on it.
Sen. Rand Paul wants to force the Senate to vote on codifying President Donald Trump’s cuts to foreign aid, a potential hitch for Republican leaders working to pass a...
March 12, 2025
Congress
Senate Dems form plan to avoid a shutdown
Senate Democrats want a vote on an alternative stopgap funding bill as they look for leverage against Republicans with two days to go until a government shutdown. The lawmakers...
March 12, 2025
Congress
Senate GOP advances Trump’s latest budget pick as Dems deem him a Vought ‘acolyte’
President Donald Trump’s pick for the No. 2 post at the White House budget office — a position key to orchestrating Trump’s orders to freeze funding — has cleared...