3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (861+ words) Congressional leaders are closing up shop for the week without voting on their long-sought immigration budget bill, as Senate Republicans struggled to agree on legislative text amid an 11th-hour fight over a new Justice Department “anti-weaponization” fund. While Republican leaders…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (994+ words) Senators at a Commerce Committee panel hearing aired concerns Wednesday about rapidly growing prediction markets, appearing largely unswayed by industry arguments that they are not a form of betting subject to state regulation. Members of the committee’s Consumer Protection, Technology…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (454+ words) A key senator suggested Monday that Republicans may be prepared to ditch security funding connected to plans for a White House ballroom in a reconciliation bill focused on immigration enforcement. Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said the $1 billion in…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago   (174+ words) Democrats are taking aim at $1 billion in the GOP’s reconciliation bill for security funds connected to plans for a White House ballroom. CQ Roll Call’s Paul M. Krawzak joins host David Lerman for a look at the procedural challenges facing…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago   (539+ words) Support is growing for a rules change in the House that would bar members of Congress and their staff from trading on prediction markets. Senators adopted their own resolution at the end of last month by unanimous consent, revising the…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (160+ words) Passage of a bill to end the record-breaking shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security exposed widening tensions between House and Senate Republicans. CQ Roll Call’s Aidan Quigley and Aris Folley join host David Lerman to discuss what it took…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (523+ words) Senators will now be barred from trading on prediction markets, after adopting a resolution by unanimous consent Thursday afternoon. It’s the latest in a flurry of efforts to squash insider trading by government officials as prediction markets grow in popularity....

5+ mon, 3+ day ago   (361+ words) House appropriators have pushed back plans to mark up a fiscal 2027 Defense spending bill by about a month because of uncertainty over how to finance a massive surge in Pentagon funding sought by the Trump administration, according to sources familiar…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1121+ words) Major chunks of House Republicans’ pre-recess agenda were back on track Wednesday as GOP leaders narrowly corralled the votes to push through a rule for floor debate on several big-ticket pieces of legislation. The 216-210 vote on the rule came as…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1050+ words) As senators headed Wednesday into their latest “vote-a-rama,” one thing was clear: Not many of them were happy. Connecticut Sen. Christopher S. Murphy, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, said, “Clearly Democrats are going to use…...