Backstabber Watch

President Donald Trump’s "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" may be in trouble.Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) told CNN on Friday that Republican lawmakers are increasingly “nervous” over the potential political fallout from supporting the megabill...

The bipartisan spending deal reached in the House of Representatives contains some provisions that are certain to raise some eyebrows, reports Punchbowl News' Melanie Zanona. Specifically, it seems that lawmakers have slipped themselves "a cost-of-living pay raise for first time since 2009"...

At least 50 U.S. lawmakers or members of their households are financially invested in companies that make military weapons and equipment—even as these firms "receive hundreds of billions of dollars annually from congressionally-crafted Pentagon appropriations legislation," a report published Thursday revealed.

42 members of Congress have violated the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act by failing to properly disclose their personal stock trades. Some lawmakers want to ban members of Congress and their immediate family members from trading stocks.

Ousted U.S. vaccine chief Dr. Rick Bright testified on Thursday that “lives were lost” because the Trump administration failed to ramp up the production of personal protective equipment like N95 respirators.

 During testimony before a House committee, the former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority said that he sounded the alarm about the need for protective equipment at the outset of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

The Office of Congressional Ethics does not have subpoena power, so lawmakers have increasingly decided that not cooperating is the better approach.

Cliven Bundy may be in jail, but he still has friends in Congress.

Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, lashed out at President-elect Donald Trump's former Department of Justice for obtaining records of lawmakers, staffers and journalists during an investigation of leaks.

Congress plans to spend just 35 days between now and the end of the year in the nation’s capital, a fitting end to one of the least productive sessions in decades.

Months after it was revealed that he had made dozens of questionable stock trades ahead of a global pandemic—and advised wealthy constituents to do the same—Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina had his cellphone seized by federal agents Wednesday night. The agents were at the senator’s Washington, D.C., residence.

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