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House Defense Appropriations Chairman Ken Calvert, R-Calif., says lawmakers “have time to deal with” the $1.95 billion funding question — but he still needs answers from the Navy about the request.

Congress

Lawmakers postpone decision on Virginia-class submarine money

Dropping requested funding from stopgap spending bill was due to political reality, funding bill timeline, lawmakers say

By Briana Reilly
Posted September 24, 2024 at 10:55pm

Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford is pictured in the Capitol during votes on July 31. Lankford on Tuesday blocked a resolution expressing a sense of the Senate that every patient should have the right to emergency health care, including abortion, regardless of where they live, saying that “there is no state in America where a woman faces prosecution for having an abortion.”

Policy

Filibuster’s future, emergency abortions fuel Senate debate

By Ariel Cohen and Sandhya Raman
Posted September 24, 2024 at 6:26pm
During Tuesday’s hearing, Senate HELP Chairman Bernie Sanders said he had received confirmation from “all of the major PBMs” that they wouldn’t reduce coverage if Novo Nordisk lowered their prices.

Policy

Novo Nordisk CEO blames PBMs, insurers for Ozempic price tag

By Lia DeGroot
Posted September 24, 2024 at 2:20pm
Zamaan Qureshi speaks during a rally organized by Accountable Tech and Design It For Us to hold tech and social media companies accountable for taking steps to protect kids and teens online on January 31.

Policy

Teen group, tech critics push for stronger online safety measure

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted September 24, 2024 at 7:00am
Rep. Andy Harris, the new leader of the House Freedom Caucus, says he will use his understanding of the appropriations process to push for the most conservative spending outcomes possible.

An unusual choice for House Freedom Caucus leader takes reins

By Aidan Quigley
Posted September 24, 2024 at 6:30am
Former Rep. Peter A. DeFazio of Oregon.

Latest round of Boeing hearings prompts call for decisive action

By Valerie Yurk
Posted September 24, 2024 at 6:30am
Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing in 2023.

Analysts say market forces will lower cost of obesity drugs

By Lia DeGroot
Posted September 23, 2024 at 7:00am
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., background, greet Architect of the Capitol workers during the “first nail ceremony,” marking the start of construction of the inauguration platform on the West Front plaza of the Capitol on Wednesday.

December stopgap funding bill readied for House floor action

By Aidan Quigley
Posted September 22, 2024 at 5:11pm, Updated at 6:19pm
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., arrives for a House Democratic Caucus meeting in the Capitol Visitor Center on July 23.

House eyes vote early next week on bipartisan CR

By Aidan Quigley, Paul M. Krawzak and David Lerman
Posted September 19, 2024 at 5:30pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., leaves a news conference in the Capitol on Thursday.

Stopgap funding negotiations heat up after Johnson plan defeat

By David Lerman
Posted September 19, 2024 at 2:54pm
A sign indicating that a portion of I-695 is closed due to the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse is seen on the Baltimore Washington Parkway in March.

US seeks damages from ship operator in Baltimore bridge collapse

By Michael Macagnone
Posted September 18, 2024 at 11:31am
Activists rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in November before the start of oral arguments in the United States v. Rahimi case over gun rights.

Judges wrestle with latest Supreme Court gun rights opinion

By Ryan Tarinelli
Posted September 18, 2024 at 10:33am
Sen. Michael D. Crapo, R-Idaho, speaks with reporters after a vote in the Capitol on Sept. 11.

Chief Senate GOP tax writer floats alternative cost estimate for 2025 package

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted September 18, 2024 at 10:13am
New Hampshire Democrat Jeanne Shaheen led 41 senators in a letter urging Senate leadership to permanently expand health care subsidies on the health care exchanges.

House, Senate Democrats renew health care subsidies push

By Ariel Cohen
Posted September 18, 2024 at 7:15am
Former President Donald Trump arrives on stage on the last night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 18.

Trump does U-turn on ‘SALT’ deduction cap

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted September 17, 2024 at 4:45pm
E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington.

Appeals court sounds skeptical of TikTok challenge to potential ban

By Michael Macagnone
Posted September 16, 2024 at 2:38pm
Rep. Mike Garcia, R-Calif., walks down the House steps after the final vote of the week on Thursday.

Emergency veterans bill appears to be on a fast track

By Aidan Quigley
Posted September 16, 2024 at 1:54pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer conducts a news conference after the Senate luncheons in the Capitol on Tuesday. He announced Thursday that the Senate will vote again on a legislative package that would establish a statutory right to IVF.

Schumer tees up second vote on IVF

By Sandhya Raman
Posted September 12, 2024 at 3:21pm
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris debate for the first time at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Sept. 10.

Presidential contenders stay mum, for now, on menthol ban

By Lia DeGroot
Posted September 12, 2024 at 12:56pm
Summer Lucille, a TikTok content creator, is seen outside the Capitol in March before the House passed a bill that could ban TikTok in the U.S.

Appeals court to hear TikTok challenge to law requiring app sale

By Michael Macagnone
Posted September 12, 2024 at 10:34am
A physician measures a pregnant patient's fundal height at Albany Medical Center's department of obstetrics and gynecology in Albany, N.Y..

Two years later, Dobbs decision continues to spur a reckoning

By Sandhya Raman
Posted September 12, 2024 at 7:00am
An abortion rights advocate shows a box of mifepristone outside the Supreme Court on March 26.

For many, incomplete answers on mental health care and pregnancy

By Sandhya Raman
Posted September 12, 2024 at 7:00am
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony for fallen servicemembers killed in the 2021 terrorist attack at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday.

Six-month stopgap funds bill yanked from House floor

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted September 11, 2024 at 12:25pm, Updated at 5:02pm
Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s move could renew partisan rancor over his 10-month block on nominations that snarled more than 400 military promotions last year.

Tuberville blocks an Army nominee over Austin hospitalization

By Caroline Coudriet and Briana Reilly
Posted September 10, 2024 at 4:09pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., conducts a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center after a House Republican Conference meeting on Tuesday.

GOP leaders to roll the dice on doomed stopgap funds bill

By Aidan Quigley and David Lerman
Posted September 10, 2024 at 3:23pm
Sens. Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell have disagreed over whether FCC spectrum auction proceeds should be used to restore internet subsidies for low-income families.

Congress has limited time to keep its word on tech legislation

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted September 10, 2024 at 7:00am
House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said the Afghanistan withdrawal was worse than the U.S. departure from South Vietnam in 1975.

House GOP report blames Biden for messy Afghanistan withdrawal

By Caroline Coudriet
Posted September 9, 2024 at 2:54pm, Updated at 5:10pm
Former President Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump in July on the last night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

Republicans use spending clash to highlight immigration issue

By Chris Johnson
Posted September 9, 2024 at 1:39pm
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, speaks at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 21.

In Congress, Walz championed tough fiscal medicine

By Daniel Hillburn
Posted September 9, 2024 at 11:19am
"Democrats support a CR to keep the government open," Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., wrote on Sunday.

Fall Legislative Preview: Congress returns for busy fall session

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted September 9, 2024 at 6:30am
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, talks with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on the third night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 17.

Six-month stopgap funds bill with voting rider unveiled in House

By Aidan Quigley
Posted September 7, 2024 at 10:37am
A demonstrator wears a headband with images of special counsel John L. "Jack" Smith as she waits outside a hearing on former President Donald Trump's election interference case Thursday in Washington.

Judge says election won’t affect timeline for Trump prosecution

By Michael Macagnone
Posted September 5, 2024 at 1:17pm, Updated at 5:06pm
Former President Donald Trump speaks on the last night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 18.

Trump floats US sovereign wealth fund as part of economic pitch

By David Lerman
Posted September 5, 2024 at 4:17pm
An mpox blood test tube is seen among other blood test tubes. Though the newest strain of the disease has not yet been detected in the United States, public health departments are preparing for the possibility. (Hakan Nural/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Health agencies scramble to prepare for new mpox strain

By Ariel Cohen
Posted September 5, 2024 at 10:36am