Congress faces packed legislative agenda, including ICE funding, FISA and farm bill

Congress returns from its one-week recess to a packed agenda, diving back into many of the same high-stakes issues that ...
JD Supra

Budget Reconciliation and Health Policy: Understanding the Legislative Process and Where Congress May Go Next

The FY 2027 budget process is underway, with the president submitting his proposal April 3 and committees beginning hearings the week of April 13. Senate leadership is expected to move a budget ...
AgWeb

Can Congress Pass a New Farm Bill in 2026?

On December 20, 2018, President Trump signed the Agricultural Improvement Act, commonly known as the 2018 farm bill. Like most recent farm bills, it was scheduled to expire in five years, on September ...
Roll Call

GAO, Library of Congress avoid cuts in Legislative Branch bill

Senate appropriators Sunday unveiled a roughly $7.3 billion draft fiscal 2026 Legislative Branch appropriations bill, part of a three-bill package that could be paired with a stopgap spending measure ...
Des Moines Register

Texas, Indiana and New York are talking about gerrymandering. Why that's unlikely in Iowa

Texas Republicans' highly unusual effort to pass new mid-decade congressional maps in an attempt to win the party five more seats in Congress has set off a national debate about redistricting and ...