Category: Congress
November 10, 2025
Congress
Cybersecurity breach at Congressional Budget Office remains a live threat
A cybersecurity breach discovered last week affecting the Congressional Budget Office is now considered “ongoing,” threatening both incoming and outgoing correspondence around Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper. Employees at the Library...
November 10, 2025
Congress
Rand Paul wants hemp vote to speed up shutdown endgame
Sen. Rand Paul wants a vote on his amendment to strike language from a shutdown-ending spending deal that would "unfairly target Kentucky’s hemp industry" before allowing the bill to...
November 10, 2025
Congress
Watson Coleman to retire from Congress
Longtime Democratic Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman announced Monday that she is not running for reelection next year and will retire at the end of her term, saying that it...
November 10, 2025
Congress
Jeffries backs Schumer amid fierce Democratic backlash to shutdown deal
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries backed Chuck Schumer, his Senate counterpart, amid a progressive backlash to Schumer's handling of a compromise to end the government shutdown. “Yes and yes,”...
November 10, 2025
Congress
House members should start returning to Washington ‘right now,’ Johnson says
Speaker Mike Johnson urged House members Monday to start returning to Capitol Hill "right now" as the chamber prepares to vote on a funding package that would end the...
November 10, 2025
Congress
The shutdown endgame is here
An end to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history is finally in sight following a bipartisan breakthrough. Here’s what comes next after the Senate took a critical procedural...
November 10, 2025
Congress
The 8 Senate Democratic Caucus members who voted to end the shutdown
There are few obvious threads connecting the group who broke the partisan impasse.
November 10, 2025
Congress
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
November 10, 2025
Congress
‘It’ll take them 5 days’: Rand Paul could be obstacle to quickly ending shutdown
The Senate is expected to vote as soon as Sunday night to start advancing legislation to end the 40-day government shutdown, but there are obstacles that could drag the...
November 09, 2025
Congress
Bill funding Congress would bolster member security, spare GAO from steep cuts
A bipartisan agreement to fund Congress and congressional support agencies for the entirety of the current fiscal year would boost funding for member security and saves the nation’s top...