Democrats are seeking to draw a contrast between big profits for oil companies and high prices at the pump. Meanwhile, Republicans are proposing cuts to the EPA as part of a debt limit proposal, and the Energy Department announced a new $2 billion loan for battery manufacturing. This is Energy & Environment, your source...
President Biden is eager to square off with Republican senators over whether they really want to cut Social Security. We’ll also look at how a top House Republican is proposing to cut federal spending and congressional fury over canceled flights. But first, see how a classified briefing for House lawmakers on the Chinese spy balloon turned...
Welcome to The Hill's Health Care newsletter {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Senators flag drug pricing as key common-ground issue Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) opened his first session as chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee today, issuing a laundry list of issues he plans on tackling and...
The special counsel leading the Justice Department’s investigations into former President Trump has subpoenaed former Vice President Mike Pence, multiple outlets reported on Thursday. Special counsel Jack Smith — who was appointed in November to oversee the investigation into the former president’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and his handling...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) recently said he wanted to “eliminate waste, wherever it is.” That’s great news since MedPAC, the agency that oversees Medicare spending and quality, has new information exposing hundreds of billions of dollars of waste in Medicare Advantage that requires congressional attention. Could there be bipartisan action to eliminate this waste? ...
Doctors have ruled out a new stroke after Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who suffered a stroke on the campaign trail last year, was hospitalized Wednesday night, the senator’s office has said. “According to John’s doctors at The George Washington University Hospital, the results of the MRI, along with the results of all of the other...
President Biden on Thursday said that the suspected Chinese spy balloon that flew over much of the U.S. last week was "not a major breach," comparing it to intelligence gathering conducted by countries around the world. “It’s not a major breach. Look, the total amount of intelligence gathering that’s going on by every country around the...
Washington, D.C. police arrested a man who allegedly assaulted Democrat Rep. Angie Craig on Thursday morning inside an elevator at the Congresswoman's residence.
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, defended President Biden amid criticism of his handling of a Chinese surveillance balloon that flew across the country last week.
Democratic Montana Sen. Jon Tester grilled Biden administration officials on why the Chinese spy balloon that traversed the U.S. was not taken down sooner.