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Top 25 congressional leadership PACs gave $27.3 million to other committees this cycle, FEC data show
Clark, Emmer, Hoyer and Scalise lead an Inquisitor Data ranking of member-sponsored leadership PACs; pre-general reports show $403,500 in contributions from 11 of them in the first two weeks of October.
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House bills would revoke Treasury license allowing Russian diesel imports
Bills from Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick and Rep. Gregory Meeks would nullify General License 135, which the administration issued Oct. 9 to add Russian diesel to a market where prices have set records.
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Two former FBI officials charged with lying to Congress in 2023 about Hunter Biden investigations
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro says Nikki Cole Floris and Bradley Benavides, who led the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, falsely told the House Judiciary Committee they had no role in the…
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Ways and Means Democrats give Treasury until Oct. 28 to explain missing IRS tax-return statistics
Ten House Ways and Means Democrats asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent why the IRS’s 2026 filing season statistics have not been published. The IRS statistics page still lists 2025 as the latest…
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Trump signs 13 bills in six days, creating Chiricahua National Park and extending drilling-permit fees
With Congress away campaigning, the president signed laws 119-122 through 119-134, from a new Arizona national park and an oil and gas permit-fee extension to dating-app fraud warnings and a Crow Tribe…