Jacob Fischler covers federal policy as a senior reporter in the States Newsroom Washington bureau. Based in Oregon, he focuses on Western issues as well as climate, energy development, public lands and infrastructure.
Several Democratic gubernatorial candidates used the Supreme Court decision to promote their environmental credentials and policies.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra pledged Tuesday to work to preserve abortion access in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s…
Most of the Democrats in the U.S. Senate have signed on to a letter to President Joe Biden pressing him to “take immediate action”…
Testifying at the fourth hearing of the Jan. 6 special committee, three GOP officials related their experiences with President Trump’s pressure campaign.
Former President Donald Trump planted the seeds for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by continually promoting theories that he lost the…
A widely anticipated hearing Thursday by the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol alleged two groups supporting…
The U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol will launch the first in a series of public hearings…
After two years of a temporary provision to allow remote voting in the U.S. House, the top 36 users of the proxy voting system…
Both the Biden administration and Congress moved Wednesday to try to relieve a national infant formula shortage.
President Joe Biden’s administration will seek to hasten construction of roads, bridges, wind farms and more by tweaking the federal review process for environmental…