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President Donald Trump speaks to the media on the South Lawn of the White House in July. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Trump orders end to flavored e-cigarette sales amid vaping-linked illnesses

By Andrew Siddons
Posted September 11, 2019 at 3:19pm
Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard C. Shelby, R-Ala., has seen the Senate’s appropriations process begin to fray this week. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Senate appropriations process continues to devolve

By David Lerman and Jennifer Shutt
Posted September 11, 2019 at 11:46am
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has been heavily involved in House Democrats' drug price plan. A spokesman emphasized that it's still a work in progress. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

House drug price negotiation plan could apply beyond Medicare

By Andrew Siddons and Lauren Clason
Posted September 10, 2019 at 9:36am
President Donald Trump has told his staff to avoid a government shutdown, but several obstacles remain to getting spending deals, as well as other legislative priorities. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

With Congress back, Trump tells staff he doesn’t want another shutdown

By John T. Bennett
Posted September 10, 2019 at 5:30am
Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, who chairs the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee, has vowed to fight for funding for gun violence research, which the House included in its spending bill. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call file photo)

As Congress kicks off a grueling September, several spending hurdles await

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted September 10, 2019 at 5:00am
Then-British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson meets with then-Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., in the Capitol. Johnson is now the British prime minister and Corker has left the Senate. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

UK’s Boris Johnson to White House: Buy our shower trays and Scottish haggis

By John T. Bennett
Posted September 5, 2019 at 11:42am
House Homeland Security Chairman Bennie Thompson, D- Miss., said “President Trump’s zero tolerance and family separation policies inflicted massive pain and trauma on children and their families." (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Trump’s family separation policy amplified children’s trauma

By Tanvi Misra
Posted September 5, 2019 at 8:52am
The James Shannon Building in Bethesda, Md., was completed in 1938. A congressionally mandated report noted that more than 72 percent of NIH facilities are more than 20 years old. (Lydia Polimeni/NIH file photo)

NIH needs $1.3 billion for building repairs, report says

By Andrew Siddons
Posted August 27, 2019 at 8:33am
EPA has “significant gaps in cybersecurity capabilities” according to an Office of Management and Budget report. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

Energy, Health departments at risk for cyberattacks, OMB says

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted August 23, 2019 at 4:35pm
Three 2020 presidential candidates are asking  Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, about the acquisition of 21 regional sports networks by Sinclair. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Suicide prevention hotline to get three-digit phone number

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted August 15, 2019 at 11:42am