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In CRA first, Senate blocks EPA waivers after procedural change

Michigan Democrat Slotkin s Republicans to block a waiver on zero-emissions vehicles

By David Jordan and Valerie Yurk
Posted May 22, 2025 at 11:56am, Updated at 3:18pm

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy paused the funding for electric vehicle charging in February.

Congress

GAO finds DOT funding pause on electric vehicle charging illegal

By Valerie Yurk
Posted May 22, 2025 at 3:47pm, Updated at 4:46pm
The Department of Justice building in Washington.

Policy

Groups file lawsuit to undo Justice Department grant terminations

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted May 22, 2025 at 4:33pm
President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talk with reporters after a House Republican Conference meeting on the budget reconciliation bill in the Capitol on Tuesday.

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Sweeping budget package es House after weeks of arm-twisting

By David Lerman and Caitlin Reilly
Posted May 22, 2025 at 7:09am
Republicans are targeting the seats of Reps. Angie Craig and Chris Pappas, center, while Democrats have eyes on Rep. Andy Barr's seat. All three lawmakers are running for Senate. (Bill Clark/Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Campaigns

As House run for Senate, their seats become prime targets

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted May 21, 2025 at 8:01pm
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington on March 21.

Judge blocks Trump’s efforts to shutter Education Department

By Jacob Fulton
Posted May 22, 2025 at 5:55pm

At the Races: One big beautiful campaign

By Niels Lesniewski, Mary Ellen McIntire and Daniela Altimari
Posted May 22, 2025 at 2:30pm, Updated at 3:29pm

Separate signal from noise in energy policy

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted May 19, 2025 at 4:57pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., led the Republican majority through a series of votes that will enable Congress for the first time to use the Congressional Review Act to nullify an agency waiver.

Senate sidesteps parliamentarian, widens reach of CRA

By David Jordan
Posted May 22, 2025 at 8:58am
Dr. Marty Makary, Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug istration, appears before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in March.

FDA won’t approve COVID shot for healthy, non-elderly population

By Lia DeGroot
Posted May 22, 2025 at 7:01am

Capitol Ink | Memorial Day

By R.J. Matson
Posted May 22, 2025 at 7:00am

Track and shape policy faster than ever.

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted January 15, 2025 at 11:59am
Libraries should be places of freedom and exploration, Curtis writes, not surveillance. Above, a researcher reads in the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress.

Forget ‘quiet, please.’ Not even libraries are safe

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted May 22, 2025 at 6:00am
The office of Rep. Nancy Pelosi features a sign notifying visitors that recording is not permitted without prior authorization from staff.

No cameras, please: Some offices in Congress warn visitors not to film

By Jim Saksa
Posted May 21, 2025 at 6:33pm
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, compared putting states in charge of certain national parks to “me putting my kids in charge of the upkeep for the house that I own.” She is shown in the Capitol earlier in May.

Senate wary of states managing National Park sites

By David Jordan
Posted May 21, 2025 at 5:05pm

Read the latest issue

By Chhayrithy Chhuan
Posted March 23, 2020 at 11:36am
Donald Trump, here at an October campaign rally in Coachella, Calif., made gains in all 52 congressional districts in the Golden State, especially in Hispanic-majority ones.

Republican gains among Latino voters face 2026 test in California

By Daniela Altimari
Posted May 21, 2025 at 5:01pm
Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, D-Va., died after a resurgence of esophageal cancer, his family announced Wednesday.

Virginia Rep. Gerald Connolly dies after cancer returns

By Niels Lesniewski and Daniela Altimari
Posted May 21, 2025 at 9:12am, Updated at 3:32pm

Capitol Lens | Hearing the sad news

By Tom Williams
Posted May 21, 2025 at 3:30pm
Education Secretary Linda McMahon testifies during the House Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the Education Department of Education’s proposed budget on Wednesday.

McMahon lays out Education Department ‘final mission’ to House appropriators

By Jacob Fulton
Posted May 21, 2025 at 3:26pm
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, left, and House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., along with other Freedom Caucus speak to reporters about the reconciliation bill talks in the Capitol on Wednesday.

GOP budget vote goes down to the wire amid conservative pushback

By David Lerman, Aidan Quigley and Caitlin Reilly
Posted May 21, 2025 at 12:13pm, Updated at 1:45pm
President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talk with reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday, as House Republicans tried to land their budget reconciliation plan.

Republicans must ensure 2026 isn’t 2018

By David Winston
Posted May 21, 2025 at 11:23am
Democratic Rep. Jared Golden is seeking another term representing Maine's 2nd District.

Jared Golden opts for reelection bid over statewide campaign in Maine

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted May 20, 2025 at 7:30am, Updated at 6:29pm
Sen. Rand Paul talks with reporters in the Capitol on April 1.

Sen. Rand Paul questions border wall funding level needs

By Chris Johnson
Posted May 20, 2025 at 5:44pm
As the Department of Justice negotiates a settlement in the wrongful death suit brought by Ashli Babbitt’s family, Democrats and police say it sends the wrong message to law enforcement. Above, rioters stand on a police vehicle near the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Ashli Babbitt settlement sends ‘sickening’ message to police, Dems say

By Justin Papp
Posted May 20, 2025 at 5:41pm
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., arrives to testify during the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing titled "FY2026 Department of Health and Human Services Budget,” in Dirksen building on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.

Senate appropriators grill Kennedy on biomedical research

By Sandhya Raman
Posted May 20, 2025 at 5:21pm
Secretary of State Marco Rubio prepares to testify during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the State Department fiscal 2026 budget proposal on Tuesday.

Rubio defends State Department reorganization in Hill testimony

By Mark Satter
Posted May 20, 2025 at 5:20pm

Capitol Lens | Putting the ‘shh’ in Schumer

By Tom Williams
Posted May 20, 2025 at 4:38pm
Former Missouri Republican Rep. Billy Long, nominated to be commissioner of the IRS, testifies during his confirmation hearing at the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday.

Trump IRS nominee grilled over ties to fraudulent tax credits

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted May 20, 2025 at 4:23pm
Still from body cam footage showing Rep. LaMonica McIver's with a federal immigration officer.

Complaint says Rep. LaMonica McIver struck agents with forearms

By Michael Macagnone
Posted May 20, 2025 at 2:38pm
President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain, R-Mich., talk with reporters before a House Republican Conference meeting on the budget reconciliation bill in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Trump doesn’t satisfy GOP holdouts as budget bill talks drag on

By Caitlin Reilly, Lia DeGroot, Jessie Hellmann and Aidan Quigley
Posted May 20, 2025 at 2:16pm

Capitol Ink | A big beautiful downgrade

By R.J. Matson
Posted May 20, 2025 at 7:00am
Christina Bellantoni, front, center, led these USC Annenberg students on a trip to Washington in 2023, and is back this week with a different group

Hello, DC! Let’s show these 20-somethings our best this week

By Christina Bellantoni
Posted May 20, 2025 at 6:00am
Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., said bill revisions addressed many of his concerns.

With Democrats in , Senate crosses hurdle on stablecoins

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Posted May 19, 2025 at 10:34pm
Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., speaks during a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center in February.

Rep. LaMonica McIver charged over immigration facility altercation

By Michael Macagnone
Posted May 19, 2025 at 9:17pm

Capitol Lens | Night moves

By Tom Williams
Posted May 19, 2025 at 4:55pm
Rep. Gabe Evans, R-Colo., flipped his seat last fall in a closely watched race, unseating Yadira Caraveo.

Gabe Evans still wears his police boots in Congress

By Justin Papp
Posted May 19, 2025 at 4:02pm

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