CQ MAGAZINE; May 13, 2024 Editor's Note: Congress can barely compete with outside political circus COMMENTARY — Give credit where it is due: Congress is chugging along toward a full reauthorization of the FAA despite multiple potential distractions on and off Capitol Hill. The question is, how long...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 13, 2024 Senate passes FAA reauthorization The Senate passed a bicameral Federal Aviation Administration bill Thursday night that would reauthorize the agency through 2028, and cleared a short-term extension of current authority to give the House time to act when it returns next wee...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 13, 2024 Comer cancels hearing after clearing of GW encampment House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James R. Comer canceled a scheduled hearing aimed at examining the local response to a pro-Palestinian encampment at George Washington University after police cleared the area...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 13, 2024 In the Spotlight: Michael Waltz Florida Republican Rep. Michael Waltz , chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness, has teamed with other congressional national security leaders to unveil broad recommendations designed to bolster U.S. maritime strength....

CQ MAGAZINE; May 13, 2024 Coast Guard ship programs face 'significant' snafus The Coast Guard’s top two ship acquisition programs will cost billions of dollars more than initially planned — and take years longer to complete — due largely to flawed oversight, congressional auditors said at a House Ho...

CQ MAGAZINE – COVER STORY; May 13, 2024 Democrats join GOP to shoot down Johnson ouster attempt Speaker Mike Johnson , right, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries attend the unveiling ceremony in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall on May 8 for the statue of civil rights leader Daisy Bates. (Source: To...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 13, 2024 Ethics clouds hover over momentous Supreme Court cases The Supreme Court is about to issue dozens of decisions that include hot-button political issues such as abortion, gun rights and a criminal case against Donald Trump — a treacherous path for an institution that has spe...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 13, 2024 Lawmakers lobby to keep guard transfer proposal out of NDAA Dozens of lawmakers have banded together to urge top House and Senate defense authorizers to reject a Pentagon request to move Air National Guard units performing space missions to the Space Force. The bipartisan,...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 13, 2024 As it gave security advice, Change Healthcare lacked safeguards In the months surrounding UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s $13 billion purchase of software company Change Healthcare Inc. in 2022, experts at Change published articles and policy papers extolling the need for cyberse...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 6, 2024 Editor's Note: Congress' own river of life, in miniature COMMENTARY — It might not convey the gravity of Thomas Cole’s “Voyage of Life” paintings , but Congress showed a wide range of its members’ stages of life this past week, from election to compromise, from retrospection...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 6, 2024 GOP report calls for investigation into key COVID scientist House Republicans on the Select Subcommittee for the Coronavirus Pandemic on Wednesday recommended that the federal government disbar a U.S. nonprofit research institute at the center of the COVID-19 origins debate...

CQ MAGAZINE – COVER STORY; May 6, 2024 Supreme Court ruling on Trump immunity could alter impeachment Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., and Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh are seen on the House...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 6, 2024 House, Senate farm bill summaries show SNAP, climate division House and Senate Agriculture committee leaders released summaries of proposed farm bills Wednesday as they ramp up action on agricultural policy legislation, but they remain divided on food stamp benefits and on t...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 6, 2024 Roy eyes 'steamroller' agenda if Republicans sweep in November Roy leaves a House GOP conference meeting at the Capitol Hill Club on Tuesday. (Source: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call.) Rep. Chip Roy laid out a game plan Tuesday for conservatives to go to war against “the radical l...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 6, 2024 UnitedHealth Group CEO blames hack on aged technology systems Witty testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday. (Source: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call.) UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty on Wednesday blamed outdated technology for a hack that likely exposed the...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 6, 2024 Multiple paths to passage eyed for kids' online safety bills Bills that would require tech companies to safeguard kids from harassment, sexual abuse and other harms are gaining momentum in Congress as their authors seek to attach them to must-pass legislation or bundle them...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 6, 2024 Lawmakers say US policy clarity on Taiwan would help deter China In a pair of House and Senate hearings the week of April 29, Republicans and Democrats highlighted what they view as weaknesses in the Biden administration’s strategy for deterring China from attacking Taiwan....

CQ MAGAZINE; May 6, 2024 In the Spotlight: John Garamendi California Democrat John Garamendi pressed senior Defense Department officials at an April 30 House Armed Services hearing for assurances that the Pentagon would evaluate a costly nuclear weapons program. Garamendi asked Defense Secretary Llo...

CQ MAGAZINE; May 6, 2024 Take Five: Brad Wenstrup Wenstrup presides over a House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Coronavirus Pandemic hearing on June 13, 2023. (Source: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call.) Before he came to Congress, Brad Wenstrup was a podiatrist, a combat surgeon in Iraq, an A...

CQ MAGAZINE; April 22, 2024 Editor's Note: Congress and the coalition-curious COMMENTARY — Congress might be as evenly divided as the public, but that doesn’t mean there is not room for surprise in the Capitol. The Senate’s dispensing with House impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secreta...

CQ MAGAZINE; April 22, 2024 Take Five: Earl Blumenauer Aside from his bike pins and bow ties, and the holiday fruit cakes he delivers to colleagues, Earl Blumenauer has carved out his own niche in the House. “I’ve got a pretty interesting portfolio of issues,” says the Oregon Democrat, like trying t...

CQ MAGAZINE; April 22, 2024 In the Spotlight: Marco Rubio Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio authored two bills likely headed to the Senate floor as part of a larger sanctions package aimed at Hamas and Iran. The Foreign Relations Committee approval of the measures comes on the heels of Iran’s dire...

CQ MAGAZINE; April 22, 2024 Senate dispenses with Mayorkas impeachment without a trial The Senate voted Wednesday to dispense with impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas without a trial, in a show of procedural hardball from the Democratic caucus. Majority Leader...

CQ MAGAZINE; April 22, 2024 Senate Foreign Relations approves sanctions bills on Iran, Hamas The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday approved a package of bipartisan sanctions bills aimed at Hamas and Iran, though disagreements over the breadth of the sanctions as well as over Israel’s rol...

CQ MAGAZINE; April 22, 2024 Congress bemoans health industry consolidation after Change hack UnitedHealth Group — the company at the center of a hack that disrupted claims processing for thousands of health care providers for several weeks — was in the spotlight of the Energy and Commerce Health Sub...

CQ MAGAZINE; April 22, 2024 Senators spar over IRS direct file pilot as Werfel testifies Werfel appears before the Senate Finance Committee to defend his agency's budget request. (Source: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call.) IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel touted the success of a pilot program allowing taxpay...

CQ MAGAZINE; April 22, 2024 Air Force plane retirements questioned following Iran attack Days after the U.S. Air Force help shoot down Iranian drones and missiles aimed at Israel, Senate defense authorizers voiced concerns over the service’s plan to reduce its aircraft inventory in its fiscal 2025 b...

CQ MAGAZINE – COVER STORY; April 22, 2024 Congress' tech plate is full, with little time at the table Cantwell, left, and Rodgers (Source: Tom Williams and Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call.) Congress has a full slate of technology policy challenges to resolve, ranging from artificial intelligence systems to...

CQ MAGAZINE; April 22, 2024 Cole brings defense hawk background to Appropriations perch Cole arrives at the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on April 17. (Source: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call.) Oklahoma Republican Tom Cole , the new chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is a...

CQ MAGAZINE; April 15, 2024 Power pleads for USAID funds as global humanitarian need rises Hundreds of millions of people, with the number increasing particularly in places like the Gaza Strip and Sudan, need humanitarian aid while the amount of U.S. taxpayer money available to meet the need has bee...