Friday is the wrong day for this week’s dispatch from Washington, since the big House votes of the week – on a major package of foreign aid bills – won’t be until tomorrow. The House did, however, hold an extremely...
As is often the case each cycle, the first fundraising quarter of 2024 – covering January 1 through March 31 – was when the state of play in many of New Jersey’s top races came into focus. The state’s congressional...
After a two-week recess – and with the government at last fully funded – Congress returned this week and immediately threw itself into a debate over Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA for short), a major federal...
March 2024 may best be remembered as the month that Congress finally funded the federal government, passing two big packages of appropriations bills that were initially supposed to be approved back in September of last year. But the House and...
Both chambers of Congress have passed a major set of bipartisan appropriations bills, averting a partial government shutdown; along with a previous bill package from two weeks ago, the vote means that the federal government is finally funded long-term after...
The government will probably keep the lights on! House Speaker Mike Johnson is under threat of losing his job! The first-ever Muslim federal appeals court nominee, a New Jerseyan, may not make it through the Senate! It was an eventful...
Reps. Tom Kean Jr. (R-Westfield) and Chris Smith (R-Manchester), two Republicans who have frustrated the more conservative wings of their party at times, both officially got primary challengers today – but neither has much to worry about. In the 4th...