Roll Call

10/30/2025

Introduced by Alaska Republican Sens. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski, the joint resolution would use the Congressional Review Act to vacate a 2022 BLM record of decision covering the 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, which borders the Arctic Ocean.

The Biden administration in 2022 finalized a record of decision that would close off 11 million acres in the reserve to oil and gas leasing.

10/30/2025

President Trump touts tenuous deals on tariffs, rare earths and soybeans after summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. https://ow.ly/vhFP50XkuTk

10/29/2025

Executives from Meta and Google spoke at a committee hearing Wednesday in which Republicans and Democrats pointed fingers over government jawboning.

Google, Meta officials said they for now support Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz's plan for a bill that would target social media censorship.

10/29/2025

The House last conducted legislative business on Sept. 19. Since then, legislation has not moved and hearings have been cancelled.

With legislation and hearings stalled, this was the month that wasn’t on the House side of the Capitol.

10/29/2025

ANALYSIS: Typically, political gravity works from the top down. The nominee at the top of the ticket may boost, or hamper, down-ballot candidates. But next week’s elections in Virginia are testing whether a down-ballot race could drag down the top of the ticket.

Next week’s elections in Virginia are testing whether a race down the ballot could drag down the top of the ticket.

10/29/2025

OPINION: It’s not hard to imagine an internal poll by Elise Stefanik’s campaign as little more than a partisan effort to boost her gubernatorial prospects, analyst Stuart Rothenberg writes.

An internal poll by New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, who is expected to challenge Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, raises quite a few questions.

10/28/2025

The president’s animosity toward wind turbines already was well-known, going back over a decade to when he couldn’t stop an offshore wind farm from being built near one of his golf courses in Scotland.

As Trump moves toward more energy-dense sources of power, the offshore wind industry has felt the impact most dramatically.

10/28/2025

Capitol Hill credit unions are seeing a flood of applications for loans during the government shutdown as staff struggle to make ends meet without paychecks. https://ow.ly/MBXK50XjcGJ

10/27/2025

Donors to the ballroom project include Amazon, Apple, Google, and Meta, as well as cryptocurrency companies Ripple, Tether America and Coinbase.

Democrats are demanding more information about donations from large tech companies to Trump’s White House ballroom project.

10/26/2025

WATCH: In Congressional Hits and Misses, last week saw back-and-forth exchanges over the status of Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, a marathon floor speech that ground things to a halt and a demolition crew tearing down part of the White House.

This week sees a back-and-forth over the status of Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva and a demolition crew tearing down part of the White House.

10/26/2025

The report comes months after the board of trustees of the program’s accounts found its combined trust funds were projected to become insolvent in 2034 — a year earlier than previously estimated.

Social Security benefits are set to rise by 2.8 percent next year, slightly more than this year's increase, to keep pace with inflation.

10/25/2025

The House of Representatives remained out of session while the government shutdown entered its fourth week with no end in sight. The week also featured the nationwide “No Kings” protests against the Trump administration and demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

This week saw dueling news conferences, the nationwide No Kings protest, and the demolition of the East Wing of the White House.