Two years ago, a champagne cork went flying on the Federalist Society convention stage as panelists toasted recent Supreme Court wins. A celebratory mood was still on display at this year’s annual gathering of the conservative legal movement, but those feelings were mixed with shock from Democrats' midterm victories. "On election night, there was a congressman...
GOP Rep. Tim Burchett (Tenn.) called on his party's congressional leadership — House Speaker Mike Johnson (La.) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (S.D.) to "step up to the daggum plate" Saturday morning, urging the pair to pass legislation funding air travel infrastructure updates in light of Friday's nationwide ground stop. “We know that it...
Microsoft confirmed its services are fully restored as of Saturday after the tech company faced a massive global outage impacting its platforms earlier in the week. “We have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions,” the company wrote in a post...
Jessica Hayes said serving in Georgia’s 10th Congressional District during the chaotic and deadly U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan in August 2021 was a “holy calling.” Now a senior adviser working in the 9th District for Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), Hayes was working for former Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.) when the office started getting calls from...
Leah Hill is no stranger to a tough crowd. The legislative director for Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) started her career teaching first- and second-graders in Chicago with Teach for America. But the issues facing her classroom felt too big to ignore, and she became curious about how lawmakers in Springfield, Ill., and Washington were making...
Few Capitol Hill staffers can match Raymond O’Mara and say they’ve worked at the leadership level in the Senate and the House, and even fewer can say they have worked in Congress from as many vantage points as he has. O’Mara now serves as the top policy staffer for Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.),...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) Senate campaign received nearly $54 million from the GOP-aligned Senate Leadership Fund’s (SLF) Texas affiliate, according to a filing. The Austin-based Texas PAC donated more than $53.8 million to Paxton’s campaign, based on filings to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). The committee is affiliated with the SLF, which is...
The Supreme Court refused to clear the way for President Trump’s mail-in voting plan for the midterms on Monday over the dissents of two conservative justices, keeping intact a judge’s block that declared the plan unlawful. It’s the third time the Trump administration brought the plan to the high court’s emergency docket after groups have blocked the effort. Previously, the...
U.S. diplomatic facilities in four Gulf countries suffered around $184 million in estimated damages from Iranian military strikes, according to a new report from the Pentagon’s watchdog made public on Monday. The posts are located in Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Pentagon watchdog said in the 44-page report, the first...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Clarity Act faces Senate test A cryptocurrency regulation bill is poised to face a key test on the Senate floor this week, as lawmakers weigh whether to advance the measure after nearly a year of negotiations....
The Trump administration on Monday gutted the rules governing the nation’s climate regulations for power plants. Here’s what you should know about the final rule from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): It axes most, but not all, power plant climate rules The rules, which have been announced but whose underlying text did not appear to...
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) returned to the Senate Monday evening to cast his first vote since June 11 after spending months away from the Capitol recuperating from a fall he suffered at home. McConnell’s long absence and the trickle of information from his office about his condition fueled weeks of speculation about his health and...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said in an interview on Monday that he wouldn’t run for president in 2028 if former Vice President Kamala Harris ran for a third bid, pointing out that they’d both be fighting over similar bases of supporters. “First of all, electorally, it's a gift from God for everybody else. They’d...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told reporters he would like to see the Protect College Sports Act, the proposed landmark legislation regulating the big business of college sports, signed by President Trump live on ESPN's "College GameDay." "Our goal from the beginning was not just to squeak by with 60 votes but to get a big...
Sixty years of inaction in Washington have not made climate change go away. Hushing won’t either. In the meantime, the American people, present and future, are paying an increasingly intolerable price.
