Tag: Congress

File- This Aug. 8, 2006 file photo shows the DirecTV building in El Segundo, Calif. AT&T says it is buying DirecTV for $95 per share, or $49 billion, a move that gives the telecommunications company a larger base of video subscribers and increases its ability to compete against Comcast and Time Warner Cable, which agreed to a merger in February. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

State attorneys general are playing politics with local news. Democracy pays the price

Danielle Zanzalari · May 24, 2026 7:00 am

Hospice nurse visiting an elderly male patient .

Fairness and Justice

Congress should rally behind the PLAN Act

Michael W. Shepherd · May 24, 2026 7:00 am

President Donald Trump listens as Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., speaks during a Fighting For American Workers event, Friday, May 22, 2026, in Suffern, N.Y. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)

Vulnerable House GOP Mike Lawler embraces Trump in high-stakes campaign push

Hailey Bullis · May 23, 2026 1:52 pm

Shipping containers are offloaded at a BNSF Railway intermodal facility.

Congress is solving the wrong rail safety problem

Phil Bell · May 23, 2026 6:00 am

A mobile emergency room

COVID patients died in crowded hospitals while ICU beds sat unused. Hantavirus could expose same flaw

Regina E. Herzlinger · May 23, 2026 6:00 am

Collage of President Donald Trump and House Minority Leaser Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). (AP Photos)

Trump says he coined ‘dumocrat’ after watching Hakeem Jeffries speak

Washington Examiner Staff · May 22, 2026 5:39 pm

Rep. Elise Stefanik.

Trump ally Jim Banks floats Stefanik as next intelligence chief

David Sivak · May 22, 2026 5:37 pm

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC)

Thom Tillis claps back at Trump over ‘stupid stuff’ hurting GOP

Ramsey Touchberry · May 22, 2026 3:06 pm

Derailed Norfolk Southern rail cars.

Chris Deluzio’s Railway Safety Act gets a big boost from Trump and is finally out of committee

Salena Zito · May 22, 2026 1:57 pm

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY)

Malliotakis exits House caucus in frustration after Democrats sink American Women’s History Museum

David Zimmermann · May 22, 2026 12:48 pm

Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, left, and Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, right.

Wasserman Schultz makes bid for new district after Cherfilus-McCormick resignation

Rena Rowe · May 22, 2026 12:40 pm

President Donald Trump speaks during an event about loosening a federal refrigerant rule.

Trump pushes to make daylight saving time permanent after Sunshine Protection Act passes committee

Emily Hallas · May 22, 2026 12:10 pm