One senator's private objection can freeze a Senate nomination indefinitely. Thom Tillis is using that leverage in the open against Todd Blanche, which is the unusual part.

One blue-colored form, sent to two home-state senators, can freeze a federal judge or prosecutor nomination indefinitely -- no vote, no law, just a century of Senate custom. Trump wants it scrapped. Grassley won't move.

One Senate procedure lets any senator force a vote on almost anything, as long as they're willing to stay past 3 a.m.

One procedural rule, named for a West Virginia senator, decides which provisions survive a reconciliation bill — and it shaped how the 2025 tax law was written.

The House minority's last-ditch procedural motion used to force real amendment votes. A 2021 rules change quietly stripped that power.

No member of Congress has ever been prosecuted for insider trading under the STOCK Act. A bill to close the gap has 93 co-sponsors and no floor vote.

A 1996 law lets Congress erase agency rules with a simple vote, and this month it's aimed squarely at California's authority to write its own tailpipe standards.

A discharge petition lets a House majority bypass its own leadership and force a floor vote, but it takes 218 signatures to even try. The tool sat mostly unused for two decades until 2025.

A pocket rescission lets a president freeze spending until it legally expires, no vote required. The GAO says it's illegal. The current OMB director wants to use it anyway.

Residential electricity averaged 18.83 cents per kilowatt-hour in April 2026, up 7.3% in a year. Most of that increase was granted in writing, by a state commission, at the end of an 11-month legal proceeding almost nobody attends.

Five days before NATO's leaders gather in Ankara, the president reopened the burden-sharing fight, and tied it to a grievance over Iran.

Trump says the two-day event at the American Airlines Center will be a ‘rally like none other,’ the first national party convention ever held in a midterm year.

A 6-3 court held that the president cannot narrow by executive order a citizenship guarantee the majority located in the Constitution itself.

The justices left Lisa Cook on the Federal Reserve Board while her suit proceeds, but cleared Trump to remove an FTC commissioner the same day.

ICE hasn't had a Senate-confirmed director since 2017. Trump's pick of an Oklahoma trooper, Lance Schroyer, tests whether that decade-long gap finally closes.

The decision turns on a single jurisdictional question: whether courts may review the move at all. The majority said no.

The most sweeping housing bill in decades cleared Congress with veto-proof majorities. Then the president attached a condition no one had agreed to.

Three candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani won New York's Democratic House primaries, with two beating sitting members of Congress in a pointed message to party leadership.

The Senate cleared the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which would expand supply and bar large investors from buying single-family homes. The House could vote within days.

The prime minister will stay on as a caretaker while Labour, not the country, picks Britain's seventh leader in a decade.