Tag: Congress

People installing solar panels on a roof of a home

Energy and Environment

Trump’s tax credit cuts could undermine pledge to lower energy costs

Maydeen Merino · September 13, 2025 5:00 am

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) listens to Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Cassidy begs RFK Jr. to support whooping cough vaccine after multiple infant deaths

Gabrielle M. Etzel · September 12, 2025 4:34 pm

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD).

Thune finds Senate path to ease Trump nominee frustration

David Sivak · September 12, 2025 2:08 pm

A person charging their electric vehicle

Energy and Environment

Electric vehicle sales surge globally and in US as tax credits near end

Maydeen Merino · September 12, 2025 1:49 pm

Sisters Clara Hetland, 4, left, Haddie Hetland, center, 9, and Audra Hetland 6, of Surprise, Ariz., spend time at a makeshift memorial set up at Turning Point USA headquarters after the shooting death at a Utah college on Wednesday of Charlie Kirk, the co-founder and CEO of the organization, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025, in Phoenix.

Charlie Kirk assassination puts conservative youth movement at a turning point

Samantha-Jo Roth · September 12, 2025 6:00 am

Getty Images pay cut

Rejoining Congress would mean a big pay cut for this top Hill staffer

David Mark · September 12, 2025 5:43 am

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) speaks during a news conference regarding provisions in the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act at the Capitol on June 5. (Rod Lamkey, Jr./AP)

Whitehouse vs. the White House: A Rhode Island Democrat emerges as a top Trump antagonist

Jeremy Lott · September 12, 2025 5:25 am

U.S. Representative Morgan McGarvey (D-KY) speaks to members of United Auto Workers Local 862 during a practice picket rally in Louisville, Ky., Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023.

Gaza conflict drives some AIPAC-backed Democrats to reject 2026 cash

David Sivak · September 12, 2025 5:00 am

Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, left, with his then-wife, Republican Texas state Sen. Angela Paxton.

Candidate quality matters: Republican primary voters need to put their party in the best position to win

Kimberly Ross · September 12, 2025 4:45 am

East front of the Capitol in Washington D.C., 1860. (Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Review of ‘Midnight on the Potomac’ by Scott Ellsworth

Beth Bailey · September 12, 2025 1:15 am

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., left, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speak to reporters to criticize Republican efforts to cut health care spending, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats demand healthcare concessions for votes on government funding deal

Rachel Schilke · September 11, 2025 6:06 pm

Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Katie Britt (R-AK) hold a press conference.

Senate ramps up pressure on Russia with consideration of sanctions and terrorist designation

Samantha-Jo Roth · September 11, 2025 5:53 pm