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Ranking member Maria Cantwell speaks during the Senate Commerce Committee business meeting and hearing on Thursday, next to Chairman Ted Cruz. The committee also heard testimony on the January 2025 crash at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Satellite licensing bill advances after Cruz, Cantwell deal

By Allison Mollenkamp
Posted February 12, 2026 at 5:00pm
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks alongside President Donald at the White House on Thursday. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

EPA repeals endangerment finding, tailpipe emissions standards

By Kelly Livingston and David Jordan
Posted February 12, 2026 at 2:38pm
Passenger planes wait in line at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Oct. 1, 2025.

House lawmakers spar over harms of potential DHS shutdown

By Chris Johnson
Posted February 11, 2026 at 3:22pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., seen here in the Capitol on Wednesday, shepherded the spending package to passage. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Senate passes spending package with Homeland Security punt

By Jacob Fulton and Aris Folley
Posted January 30, 2026 at 6:50pm
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham talks with reporters in the Dirksen building on Dec. 9. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Graham outlines demands as clock ticks on spending package

By Aidan Quigley and Jacob Fulton
Posted January 30, 2026 at 3:35pm
Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla., left, and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., are seen in the Capitol as the Senate took a procedural vote on a government funding package on Thursday.

Senate spending deal runs into ‘hotline’ headwinds

By Jacob Fulton, Aidan Quigley and Aris Folley
Posted January 29, 2026 at 5:10pm, Updated at 11:49pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., is holding out hope for saving the six-bill spending package.

Senate seeks escape from Homeland Security standoff

By Jacob Fulton and Aris Folley
Posted January 26, 2026 at 6:13pm
Sen. Ted Cruz, left, and Sen. Maria Cantwell, right, hold a press conference Monday with families who lost loved ones in the January 2025 DCA plane crash. Christina Stovall, third from left, who lost her son Michael "Mikey" Bret Stovall, is comforted by Laura Augendre, who lost her cousin, Peter Livingston and his family. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Reagan National airport safety looms as appropriations issue

By John M. Donnelly
Posted December 15, 2025 at 6:35pm, Updated December 17, 2025 at 4:35pm
A Delta Air Lines Boeing 757-200 plane passes by the Capitol as it comes in for a landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Nov. 9.

Senate eyes NDAA passage next week amid aviation safety worries

By John M. Donnelly
Posted December 12, 2025 at 2:59pm
Jared Isaacman, nominee to be NASA administrator, testifies to the Senate Commerce Committee on Dec. 3.

Senate panel advances nominee in his second run to lead NASA

By Valerie Yurk
Posted December 8, 2025 at 7:21pm