Oversight
The Senate's Three Competing Priorities Before Memorial Day Recess
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is juggling Trade Promotion Authority, the Patriot Act and a highway bill.
Oversight
The Senate Will Decide the Future of NSA Spying
Mitch McConnell's intransigence has been unbowed despite an apparent groundswell of support over the past month in favor of NSA reform.
Oversight
Play of the Day: Who Created ISIS?
Weekend Update clarifies Jeb Bush's brother's effect on the Middle East.
Oversight
House Preps Highway Extension as Deadline Looms
Funding would continue until July 31, but a long-term solution remains elusive.
Oversight
McConnell Introduces Short-Term Reauthorization of Patriot Act
The majority leader’s new legislation would extend NSA mass spying only until July 31.
Oversight
Play of the Day: Jeb Bush Doesn't Ride a Bucking Manatee
The former governor of Florida declared his 2016 candidacy accidentally in a Nevada hallway.
Defense
IG Says the Pentagon's Estimates of Improper Payments Are Unreliable
Audit notes that too few expenditures were reviewed.
Management
Republican Senator Pressures Agencies on Regulatory Review
Lankford requests detailed priorities at Labor, EPA, Interior, Agriculture and PBGC.
Oversight
GOP Delays Hillary Clinton Benghazi Hearing, Puts Onus on John Kerry
The House select committee won't call in the Democratic frontrunner to testify until the State Department hands over documents.
Oversight
NSA Spying Heads to Critical Senate Showdown
Mitch McConnell will force a vote on a clean reauthorization of the Patriot Act next week as a deadline looms.
Oversight
Amtrak Has a Trust Problem in Congress
Democrats want to give the rail service more money, and Republicans are demanding more accountability.
Oversight
Play of the Day: Jeb Bush's Iraq Mistake
The presidential hopeful fumbles an easy question.
Oversight
Sen. Bob Corker Is 'Shocked' by How Little Data the NSA Is Collecting
The NSA bulk-data program is so scaled down, it might not even be effective, the Senate Foreign Relations chairman claims.
Oversight
Debunking the Myth That Only Drivers Pay for Roads
Landing on the moon was still a wild dream the last time gas taxes paid nearly the full cost of our roads.
Management
VA Officials Say They're Trying to Fire People, But It's Still Really Hard
Department already wants to reform 2014 reforms.
Oversight
House Democrats: Train Crash Serves as Reminder of Amtrak's Financial Problems
Lawmakers made a push for more federal funding for the rail system on Wednesday during a House committee hearing on transportation budgets.
Oversight
Play of the Day: Barack Obama Completes His Travels to All the States
The president's visit to South Dakota was not long, but it happened.
Pay & Benefits
House Passes Bill Exempting Some Feds From Retirement Tax Penalty
Legislation would allow law enforcement officers and firefighters to access TSP savings before age 55 without 10 percent tax.
Oversight
Obama Administration Backs Bill to End NSA Bulk Records-Collection
The White House says it supports the USA Freedom Act.
Oversight