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Activists hold signs during a rally outside the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., on May 10, 2025.

White House drops executive order for tighter NIH purview

By Lia DeGroot
Posted September 23, 2026 at 6:43pm
Chairman Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., conducts a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Permitting deal down to the wire as senators look to the exits

By David Jordan and Kelly Livingston
Posted September 23, 2026 at 6:07pm
Sen. John Curtis, seen here at a hearing in April, wants the Judiciary Committee to probe “the use of presidential family relationships for private financial benefit, preferential treatment, or access by domestic and foreign interests.”

Not a ‘toaster’: GOP senator urges Judiciary panel to probe Don Jr. wedding party

By Savannah Behrmann and Michael Macagnone
Posted September 22, 2026 at 7:56pm
Bobby Pulido, the Democratic nominee for Texas' 15th District, speaks at a campaign rally in Goliad, Texas, on Sept. 12. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

In South Texas, Bobby Pulido urges voters to see beyond red and blue

By Daniela Altimari
Posted September 22, 2026 at 5:12pm
Troy Jackson, the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, holds an ax given to him during a July campaign event in the Bangor area. Inside Elections now rates his race against GOP Sen. Susan Collins as a Toss-up. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Rating changes: A dozen more races move toward Democrats

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted September 22, 2026 at 4:28pm
Vice President JD Vance conducts the White House briefing on Thursday, Sept. 3.

Vance pushes for health fraud legislation in the Senate

By Lia DeGroot
Posted September 22, 2026 at 3:04pm
President Donald Trump addresses the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.

‘Into hell’: Trump signals aggressive lame-duck foreign policy at UN

By John T. Bennett
Posted September 22, 2026 at 1:20pm
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, left, and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., talk before the start of a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Sept. 17.

Lawmakers bristle at Trump effort for tighter control of NIH

By Lia DeGroot
Posted September 21, 2026 at 7:00pm
President Donald Trump speaks to the Republican Midterm Convention at the American Airlines Center in Dallas on Sept. 9.

Trump pivots to foreign policy amid political, legal battles at home

By John T. Bennett
Posted September 21, 2026 at 12:54pm, Updated at 6:38pm

Capitol Lens | First Amendment grounds

By Tom Williams
Posted September 21, 2026 at 3:59pm
President Donald Trump's request for supplemental Iran war funding has awaited congressional action since June. He is seen here at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on Sept. 9.

Iran war funding dilemma

By John M. Donnelly and David Lerman
Posted September 21, 2026 at 3:04pm
Maine Democratic Rep. Jared Golden, seen in the Capitol on July 17, 2025, is backing New York Republican Rep. Mike Lawler for reelection. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Golden breaks Democratic ranks to support Lawler’s reelection bid

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted September 21, 2026 at 12:40pm, Updated at 2:55pm
Steam rises from a vent on the East Front of the Capitol.

Interest groups say president should not pick next GAO chief

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted September 21, 2026 at 2:42pm
Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., who founded a community bank before being elected to Congress, is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Arkansas duo goes to bat for small investment brokers

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Posted September 21, 2026 at 6:09am
Senate Commerce Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and ranking member Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., conduct a news conference on Sept. 14 with student-athletes and coaches on a bill to address name, image and likeness in college sports. The Senate is aiming to pass the bill this week. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

This week: Senate still at work on college sports bill

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted September 21, 2026 at 5:59am
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during the 2026 National POW/MIA Recognition Day ceremony at the Pentagon on Friday.

Pentagon’s latest Iran war cost estimate: $43.6 billion

By John M. Donnelly
Posted September 18, 2026 at 3:30pm
President Donald Trump speaks to the Republican Midterm Convention at the American Airlines Center in downtown Dallas on Sept. 9. Depending on how the GOP does in the midterms, such conventions could become a tradition, Roll Call Campaigns Analyst Nathan L. Gonzales says.

What a long, strange primary season it’s been

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted September 18, 2026 at 8:40am
Elbridge Colby, undersecretary of Defense for policy, testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on March 3.

Pentagon official’s ‘contemptuous’ briefing sparks bipartisan ire

By John M. Donnelly
Posted September 17, 2026 at 8:26pm
Sens. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., right, and Tim Kaine, D-Va., conduct a news conference in the Capitol on Jan. 8 (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

NIL bill foes likely out of timeouts as it clears second procedural hurdle

By John T. Bennett
Posted September 17, 2026 at 1:50pm
President Donald Trump greets supporters Wednesday at a rally in Gastonia, N.C., to drum up support for Republican Senate nominee Michael Whatley.

Trump slams Democrat Cooper as ‘weak’ on crime as he campaigns in North Carolina

By John T. Bennett
Posted September 16, 2026 at 9:56pm, Updated September 17, 2026 at 11:14am
Supporters of Ukraine hold a protest in Lafayette Square across from the White House in Washington on March 1, 2025.

Robust House majority backs sanctions on Russia and Iran

By John M. Donnelly
Posted September 16, 2026 at 7:47pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., conducts a news conference after the Senate luncheons in the Capitol on Tuesday. Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., left, Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., also appear. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

AI threats confront a Congress far from erecting guardrails

By Allison Mollenkamp and Savannah Behrmann
Posted September 15, 2026 at 6:23pm, Updated at 9:36pm
Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., greets student-athletes during a news conference outside the Capitol on the college sports bill on Monday.

College NIL bill moves forward on Senate floor

By John T. Bennett
Posted September 15, 2026 at 8:16pm
Attorney General Todd Blanche answers questions during a press briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House on Tuesday. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Blanche vows to continue midterm efforts despite court blocking mail ballots rule

By John T. Bennett
Posted September 15, 2026 at 6:14pm
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth testifies during the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the administration's Iran war supplemental spending request on July 21, 2026. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Iran war has cost $38 billion and counting, CBO says

By John M. Donnelly
Posted September 15, 2026 at 4:27pm
Reps. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, and Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, right, talk with reporters about the renaming of the Kennedy Center to include President Donald Trump’s name outside the Capitol on Dec. 18, 2025.

Judge again blocks efforts to add Trump’s name to Kennedy Center

By Michael Macagnone
Posted September 15, 2026 at 4:25pm
FBI Director Kash Patel testifies during the Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Tuesday.

Patel won’t rule out FBI at the polls on Election Day

By Michael Macagnone
Posted September 15, 2026 at 3:43pm
President Donald Trump arrives to speak to the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on Sept. 9. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Will there be more midterm conventions?

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted September 15, 2026 at 10:58am
U.S. Supreme Court building on March 18.

Supreme Court blocks efforts to stop mail voting this fall

By Michael Macagnone
Posted September 14, 2026 at 8:33pm
President Donald Trump exits the stage after speaking Wednesday at the Republican midterm convention at the American Airlines Center in downtown Dallas.

‘Tired of politics’: By GOP convention’s end, even Trump had tapped out

By John T. Bennett
Posted September 11, 2026 at 12:40pm