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...

CQ MAGAZINE; April 15, 2024 House approves Section 702 surveillance reauthorization bill The House voted to pass a bill Friday to reauthorize a powerful surveillance authority, apparently capping off a bruising monthslong debate over national security concerns and privacy protections for Americans....

CQ MAGAZINE; April 15, 2024 Editor's Note: What passes for normal in Congress COMMENTARY — Fresh off a two-week recess, Congress returned to the Capitol the week of April 8 without the imminent threat of spending deadlines, free to conduct legislative business without the specter of a government shu...

CQ MAGAZINE; April 15, 2024 In the Spotlight: Nanette Barragan California Democrat Nanette Barragán , chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and other Congressional Tri-Caucus leaders are calling for the restoration of the House Office of Diversity and Inclusion after its funding was slashed. B...

CQ MAGAZINE; April 15, 2024 Tim Kaine walks on the wild side Kaine's new book focuses on his travels in Virginia and life after losing the 2016 presidential election with Hillary Clinton. (Source: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo.) A few days after Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine saw his vice presiden...

CQ MAGAZINE – COVER STORY; April 15, 2024 Panel pitches NDAA plan to improve troops' quality of life U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Tyler Laliberte prepares to embrace his son Jaxson, 4, while reuniting with his family after a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan on December 10, 2020, at Fort Drum, N.Y. (Sour...

CQ MAGAZINE; April 15, 2024 Kishida tells Congress Japan will help US carry the load abroad Kishida addresses Congress, with Vice President Harris and Speaker Johnson seated behind. (Source: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call.) Amid deep divisions on Capitol Hill over how much Washington should involve itsel...

CQ MAGAZINE; April 15, 2024 Defense leaders, hawks spotlight Ukraine's dire straits Ukraine is increasingly outgunned by Russia and, without more U.S. weapons, faces the growing possibility of defeat, Defense Department leaders and a bipartisan chorus of lawmakers said at a Wednesday hearing. The Ho...

CQ MAGAZINE; April 15, 2024 Ex-lawmakers warn Supreme Court over Trump immunity claims Former military officials, governors and former members of Congress from both parties on April 8 urged the Supreme Court to let former President Donald Trump face charges tied to his effort to overturn the 2020 el...

CQ MAGAZINE; March 25, 2024 Greene sets up potential effort to remove Johnson as speaker Greene talks to reporters Friday after filing her resolution to declare the speaker's job vacant. (Source: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call.) Speaker Mike Johnson is facing a live threat to remove his gavel after Rep. Ma...

CQ MAGAZINE; March 25, 2024 Becerra, Republicans square off over fiscal 2025 HHS blueprint Two influential House panels questioned the administration’s top health official Wednesday during hearings on the White House's fiscal 2025 budget proposal for the Health and Human Services Department, even as...

CQ MAGAZINE; March 25, 2024 Supreme Court sounds reluctant to curb US social media outreach Conservative demonstrators protest outside the Supreme Court as the court hears oral arguments in the case of Murthy v. Missouri. (Source: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images.) The Supreme Court appeared ready on...

CQ MAGAZINE; March 25, 2024 A new era for CRS? Lawmakers propose less 'bicep work' Bice holds up a copy of the Constitution Annotated at the hearing. (Source: Screenshot/Courtesy the House Administration Subcommittee on Modernization.) Few people want to lug around the behemoth print version of the...

CQ MAGAZINE; March 25, 2024 DHS funding squeeze, creative bookkeeping emerges in daylight The contortions White House and House GOP negotiators had to go through to squeeze enough Department of Homeland Security funding into the wrapup appropriations package became evident once the documents were po...

CQ MAGAZINE; March 25, 2024 Hack poses financial problems for community health centers Community health centers and organizations that primarily serve low-income people are being disproportionately hurt by the biggest hack in health care history, which has disrupted payments for thousands of health...

CQ MAGAZINE – COVER STORY; March 25, 2024 Focus sharpens on China's tech in rare bipartisan display The House-passed measure designed to force China’s ByteDance to divest TikTok is only part of an expanding effort aimed at curtailing China's tech ties to the United States. As lawmakers were voting o...

CQ MAGAZINE; March 25, 2024 In the Spotlight: Bob Latta Ohio Republican Bob Latta ushered a bill (HR 7589) through the Energy and Commerce Committee on March 20 that would require officials to study the security risks posed by wireless routers, modems and other devices that may contain technology fr...

CQ MAGAZINE; March 18, 2024 Editor's Note: Amid Congress' dysfunction, some significant votes COMMENTARY — It would be easy to focus on Congress’ almost comical level of dysfunction, but to do so would miss some meaningful actions in each chamber this past week. True, it is difficult not to rubber-n...

CQ MAGAZINE; March 18, 2024; Corrected March 15, 2024 – 4:29 p.m. In the Spotlight: Maxwell Alejandro Frost Florida’s Maxwell Alejandro Frost , one of three Democrats who voted against a fiscal 2024 spending law ( PL 118-42 ) after the inclusion of a GOP-led gun policy rider, is now a prominent voic...

CQ MAGAZINE; March 18, 2024 Schumer signals slower Senate pace on TikTok bill Lawmakers’ long-held concerns about the growing reach of China’s technology platforms and its ability to influence Americans culminated in a bill overwhelmingly supported in the House that would require the divestiture of...

CQ MAGAZINE; March 18, 2024 Teen THC use could further complicate cannabis policy Adolescents are using an often unregulated, psychoactive derivative of cannabis, according to national data released Wednesday, as the Biden administration deliberates expanding access to marijuana at the federal level...

CQ MAGAZINE; March 18, 2024 Senators warn of election threats but disagree on what they are American elections are less secure today than they were four years ago, thanks to foreign threats, the rise of artificial intelligence and Americans’ flagging confidence in institutions, according to Sen. Mar...

CQ MAGAZINE; March 18, 2024 Biden budget plan offers up election-year contrast with GOP foes Biden is all smiles when previewing some of his budget proposals during his State of the Union address. (Source: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call.) President Joe Biden unveiled a $7.3 trillion budget blueprint on Mar...

CQ MAGAZINE; March 18, 2024 Special counsel defends Biden classified materials investigation Hur testifies at the House Judiciary Committee hearing. (Source: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call.) House Judiciary Committee members used a hearing on March 12 over a special counsel report on President Joe Biden'...

CQ MAGAZINE – COVER STORY; March 18, 2024 Key Votes: Fights over regulations, debt, speaker shaped 2023 The Capitol Dome is illuminated at dawn on Jan. 30, 2024. (Source: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call.) The oldest of CQ's annual studies, Key Votes is a selection of the major votes for both House and Senat...

CQ MAGAZINE; March 11, 2024 Editor's Note: Train in vain  . . .  you didn't stand by me COMMENTARY —As metaphors for Congress go these days, a stalled train is obvious, a bit too on the nose. And yet there it was, in the midnight hour, a Senate subway car on the Dirksen-Hart office buildings line, s...

CQ MAGAZINE; March 11, 2024 Biden sells 'America's comeback' in State of the Union address Biden addresses Congress on Thursday. (Source: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call.) President Joe Biden used his State of the Union address Thursday evening to try again to convince voters his policies on economic issues...

CQ MAGAZINE; March 11, 2024 House panel votes for TikTok divestiture, data broker bills The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday unanimously advanced a measure that would require Chinese-owned ByteDance Ltd. to divest its U.S. subsidiary that operates the popular TikTok app within six mon...

CQ MAGAZINE; March 11, 2024 Fiscal 2025 blueprint advances in House Budget panel The House Budget Committee adopted a fiscal 2025 budget resolution Thursday that aims to erase the deficit within a decade and set the nation on a path to economic growth, energy independence and sustainable spending. T...

CQ MAGAZINE; March 11, 2024 Kilmer introduces continuity plan Rep. Derek Kilmer swears he’s still a fun hang, even if he keeps bringing up mass casualty events and the hypothetical collapse of Congress. “I would say the colleagues that I hang with are tired of me saying, ‘Hey, here’s something you m...