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Jan. 6 riot ‘does not happen’ without Trump, Jack Smith told Congress – NPR
LawCapitol riot ‘does not happen’ without Trump, Jack Smith told CongressDecember 31, 20259:15 PM ET By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Jan. 6., 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol “does not happen” without Donald Trump, former special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers earlier this month in characterizing the Republican president as the “most culpable…
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Congress’s productive 2025 (And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise) – GovTrack.us
Editor’s Note: Featured image on top is from WP AI. –DrWeb Congress’s productive 2025 (And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise) Get Analysis and Commentary Updates In Your Inbox! – Sign up (it’s free!) to get posts like this straight to your inbox. You’ll be able to choose posts from these categories: Legislative Recap …
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Enhanced ACA subsidies to expire as talks in Congress stall – NPR
Politics How the long-running Obamacare fight came to thwart enhanced subsidies in Congress Updated December 17, 202512:10 PM ET, Heard on Morning Edition By Sam Gringlas 3-Minute Listen Transcript Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., meets with reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday as Republicans confront internal divisions over how to to address growing health…
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Roberts and Kagan prepare for another showdown on executive power – CNN Politics
Politics 9 min read Roberts and Kagan prepare for another showdown on executive power By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst, Dec 5, 2025 See all topics Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Elena Kagan are well matched, rhetorically forceful opposites. And they have been clashing for more than a decade over an increasingly relevant…
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Letters from an American – November 29, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, November 29, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Nov 29, 2025 In the wake of yesterday’s report from Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Special Operations to kill the survivors of a September 2 strike on a small boat off Venezuela, the Senate…
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Pete Hegseth, No Boy Scout, Reportedly Wants to Put the “Boy” Back in Scouts – Vanity Fair
SCOUT’S DISHONOR Pete Hegseth, No Boy Scout, Reportedly Wants to Put the “Boy” Back in Scouts The Department of Defense won’t comment to VF on the possibly leaked “predecisional” documents, which would push Congress to cut ties with Scouting America By Kase Wickman, November 25, 2025 Remember the good old days, when men were men…
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Legislative Recap for 11/21/25 – GovTrack.us
Legislative Recap for 11/21/25 Get Legislative Recap Updates In Your Inbox!Sign up (it’s free!) to get posts like this straight to your inbox. You’ll be able to choose posts from these categories: Analysis and Commentary – Legislative Recap – Legislative Preview – The White House – News…
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Perlmutter Tells SCOTUS Trump is Making ‘An Inexcusable Mess’ of Library of Congress Governance – IPWatchdog.com -Patents & Intellectual Property Law
By Eileen McDermott, 7 hours ago Perlmutter Tells SCOTUS Trump is Making ‘An Inexcusable Mess’ of Library of Congress Governance “The question here is not whether the Register of Copyrights or the Librarian of Congress has any functions that can be characterized as ‘executive’ for constitutional purposes; it is whether Congress decided to organize the…
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The Government Shutdown at Day 40: Where are we and how did we get here? – GovTrack.us
The Government Shutdown at Day 40: Where are we and how did we get here? Get Analysis and Commentary Updates In Your Inbox! Sign up (it’s free!) to get posts like this straight to your inbox. You’ll be able to choose posts from these categories: Analysis and Commentary – Legislative Recap –…
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Comparing FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Appropriations Bills – EPIC for America
Comparing FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Appropriations Bills November 3, 2025 David Ditch Comparing FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Appropriations Bills Download Report The largest domestic policy appropriations package is the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHSED) bill. These agencies, none of which existed for most of…
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Congress fails to pass a government funding bill, triggering a shutdown – GovTrack.us
News From Us Analysis and Commentary Congress fails to pass a government funding bill, triggering a shutdown Sept. 30, 2025 · by Joshua Tauberer Federal government agencies with yearly funding are set to shut down tonight (or did last night, if you’re reading this tomorrow). How this might affect you, or how long this might…
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Declaring War on Japan in 1941: Challenging Students to Explore Multiple Perspectives on a Presidential Speech to Congress – Library of Congress
Teaching with the Library Primary Sources & Ideas for Educators ISSN 2691-6916 Declaring War on Japan in 1941: Challenging Students to Explore Multiple Perspectives on a Presidential Speech to Congress September 29, 2025, Posted by: Cheryl Lederle Stacie Moats of the Library of Congress contributed to this article. In the September 2025 issue of Social…
