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A firefighter waters down hot spots from the Washburn Fire in Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park, Calif., on Monday.

Sequoias safe for now, as lawmakers debate forest policies

By Keith Lewis
Posted July 14, 2022 at 3:55pm
Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan wrote the provision in the fiscal 2022 defense policy law that required the Defense Department's new report.

Pentagon: Hill added $58 billion to current defense budget

By John M. Donnelly
Posted July 14, 2022 at 2:22pm
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions ranking member Richard M. Burr has sent a letter to the HHS secretary demanding clarity on the federal government's monkeypox response.

Doctors warn US monkeypox response is lagging

By Ariel Cohen
Posted July 14, 2022 at 1:43pm
The proposals would "help shareholders exercise their rights to submit proposals for consideration by their fellow shareholders,” said SEC Chairman Gary Gensler.

SEC seeks to ease barriers for investors’ ESG proposals

By Ellen Meyers
Posted July 14, 2022 at 7:00am
Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., above, and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., are negotiating a scaled-back reconciliation bill, and health care advocates hope Medicaid expansion and home health care are part of that equation.

Reconciliation talks so far quiet on Medicaid expansion

By Lauren Clason and Jessie Hellmann
Posted July 14, 2022 at 6:30am
A billboard advertises mental health treatment in St. Paul, Minn., in 2017. More than 130 groups say the Biden administration needs to do more to stem a growing youth mental health crisis.

National 988 crisis hotline readied for rollout

By Sandhya Raman
Posted July 14, 2022 at 6:30am
The Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center in Long Beach on Wednesday, July 31, 2019.

Compromise veterans bill passes House, heads back to Senate

By David Lerman
Posted July 13, 2022 at 8:40pm
Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo testifies during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on her agency's budget request on Wednesday, April 27, 2022.

No easy options as pressure to pass chips funding bill grows

By Lindsey McPherson, Laura Weiss and Aidan Quigley
Posted July 13, 2022 at 7:56pm
Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., wants to see tax relief for her constituents to offset any tax increases.

Reconciliation talks complicated by ‘SALT’ tax hurdle

By Lindsey McPherson and Laura Weiss
Posted July 13, 2022 at 7:11pm
Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, left, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, are among a small bipartisan group of lawmakers working on legislation to enshrine rights to abortion and contraception into law.

Biden administration says pharmacists cannot deny contraceptives

By Ariel Cohen, Sandhya Raman and Jessie Hellmann
Posted July 13, 2022 at 5:57pm
Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, earlier this year on Capitol Hill. During an interview with CQ/Roll Call Wednesday, Walensky called for funding and authority to allow the agency to more nimbly respond to public health crises such as COVID-19 and mpox.

Biden administration urges caution as BA.5 surges

By Ariel Cohen
Posted July 12, 2022 at 1:02pm
New citizens are sworn in during a naturalization ceremony at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello in Charlottesville, Va., on July 4, 2021.

Immigration agency taps community leaders to promote citizenship

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted July 12, 2022 at 12:50pm
Anti-abortion protesters react outside the Supreme Court following its decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Eighteen states so far have passed laws to punish doctors who perform the procedure with jail time, leading doctors to worry about the implications for miscarriage care.

Roe reversal spurs worries about miscarriage care

By Ariel Cohen
Posted July 12, 2022 at 5:00am
Police officers arrange barricades behind riot fencing around the Supreme Court on May 5.

Court security funding stripped in House

By Aidan Quigley
Posted June 24, 2022 at 1:18pm, Updated July 11, 2022 at 6:52pm
Sen. Joe Manchin III has concerns about the cost of extending the subsidies, telling one publication they should be reserved for people “who really need it the most.”

Insurers propose premium increases as subsidy cliff looms

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted July 11, 2022 at 10:52am
Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee attends a news conference on the treatment of Haitian migrants at the southwest border last year.

Report finds agents used improper force against Haitian migrants

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted July 8, 2022 at 4:54pm
Trucks and cars cross over the Rio Grande and U.S.-Mexico border on the Bridge of the Americas in El Paso, Texas, in 2021.

Immigration enforcement policy fight reaches Supreme Court

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted July 8, 2022 at 4:35pm
President Joe Biden signs an executive order on access to reproductive health care services as Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra look on in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Friday.

Biden issues executive order responding to abortion ruling

By Sandhya Raman
Posted July 8, 2022 at 3:39pm
President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., one of 17 recipients to receive the nation's highest civilian honor, during a ceremony at the White House on Thursday.

Biden medal picks push partisan issues, and bipartisanship

By Chris Cioffi
Posted July 7, 2022 at 6:15pm
According to EPA data, the transportation sector was the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in 2020, mostly from light-duty vehicles.

States would set lower highway emissions goals under proposed rule

By David Jordan
Posted July 7, 2022 at 12:56pm, Updated at 4:49pm
U.S. Park Police faced protestors in Lafayette Square on May 31 and June 1, 2020.

Park Police radio channels unrecorded for years, watchdog says

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted July 6, 2022 at 5:56pm
Activists listen during a news conference marking the 10th anniversary of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, on Capitol Hill in June.

Biden administration defends DACA program at appeals court

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted July 6, 2022 at 2:45pm
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, right, listens as and Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer speaks at a room-naming ceremony in the Capitol on June 8.

For chips and budget packages, Democrats face choices

By Peter Cohn
Posted July 6, 2022 at 10:52am
In this photo provided by the National Park Service, the Yellowstone National Park's North Entrance Road is washed out after flooding on June 16.

Big spending boost may be too little for national parks’ needs

By David Jordan
Posted July 6, 2022 at 6:00am
“No more drilling, including offshore,” President Joe Biden said at a campaign debate. Diane Hoskins, Oceana campaign director, said the possibility the administration might allow drilling was disappointing.

New Interior offshore drilling plan draws mixed reviews

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted July 5, 2022 at 4:16pm
EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan may find a narrow path for his agency's efforts to rein in climate change.

Court hobbles EPA on climate, and its options are limited

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted July 1, 2022 at 6:00am
The case was brought by states that argue the EPA overstepped its bounds in regulating carbon emissions by power plants.

Supreme Court limits EPA power plant carbon emissions authority

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted June 30, 2022 at 12:52pm, Updated at 2:52pm
“First on gun safety, then on abortion, and now on the environment – this MAGA, regressive, extremist Supreme Court is intent on setting America back decades, if not centuries,” Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., said of the Supreme Court's ruling in West Virginia v. EPA.

Democrats fume, GOP lauds ruling to weaken EPA

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted June 30, 2022 at 2:38pm
Cardboard cutouts of the conservative Supreme Court justices are propped up by abortion rights activists in front of the court before the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was handed down last week.

Supreme Court conservatives flex in term full of controversial cases

By Michael Macagnone
Posted June 30, 2022 at 2:33pm
Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., above, and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., are negotiating a scaled-back reconciliation bill, and health care advocates hope Medicaid expansion and home health care are part of that equation.

Senate drafts last-ditch drug pricing plan ahead of midterms

By Lauren Clason
Posted June 30, 2022 at 1:49pm