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• Trump officials blur Hatch Act lines with GOP convention speeches

  11-09-2026 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Five years after top Trump officials were found in violation of the Hatch Act over their appearances at the 2020 Republican National Convention, President Trump's Cabinet is once again taking the stage to boost Republicans ahead of the midterms.   Administration officials have notably been introduced without their official titles for their speeches at the GOP...
  
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• Zach Barnes: Executive director, House Freedom Caucus 

  15-09-2026 12:01 via thehill.com
  
  Zach Barnes says that working with members of the House Freedom Caucus — the hard-line conservative group famous for confronting Republican leadership and instigating procedural and floor fights — makes him joke about how Congress must have operated a century ago. “Members of Congress didn't have 15 to 18 full-time staff in D.C., in their...
  
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• Wyndee Parker: National security adviser, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)

  15-09-2026 12:01 via thehill.com
  
  No two days are the same for Wyndee Parker. As national security adviser to House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), Parker is responsible for overseeing the activities of all of the lower chamber’s national security committees, including Armed Services, Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, Homeland Security and their Appropriations counterparts. She also works with the executive branch...
  
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• Tom Rust: Chief counsel and staff director, House Ethics Committee

  15-09-2026 12:01 via thehill.com
  
  For nearly two decades, Tom Rust has worked behind the scenes to help police the conduct of lawmakers. Rust joined the House Ethics Committee in 2009 after nearly a decade in private legal practice. He quickly moved up the ranks, serving as senior counsel and acting director of investigations before taking the role of staff director in 2014. Today, Rust oversees...
  
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• Rubi Flores: Policy director, Congressional Hispanic Caucus

  15-09-2026 12:01 via thehill.com
  
  Rubi Flores, 30, is a concert pianist turned policy director who has landed at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) as it positions itself to fight the Trump administration on its mass deportation agenda and other issues key to Latinos. An immigrant from Mexico who moved to the U.S. at age 10, Flores excelled not only...
  
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• Raphaël Schreiber: Legislative director, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)

  15-09-2026 12:01 via thehill.com
  
  July 15, 2025, was “the most stressful day” of Raphaël Schreiber’s career in Congress. The legislative director for Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) had a “very brief” conversation with the congressman about the idea of a bill directing the Department of Justice to publicly release materials on its Jeffrey Epstein investigation. “And then he told me,...
  
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• Omar Hossino: Chief counsel and national security adviser, House Republican Policy Committee

  15-09-2026 12:01 via thehill.com
  
  For many in Washington, being sanctioned by America’s adversaries is a badge of honor. Omar Hossino, the national security lead for the House Republican Policy Committee, is viewed as the staffer who has helped members get on those blacklists.“His greatest achievement: He had me identified by the Assad dictatorship [in Syria] as an enemy...
  
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• Nelly Decker: Communications director, House Judiciary Committee Democrats

  15-09-2026 12:01 via thehill.com
  
  Nelly Decker is a quintessential under-the-radar staffer who prizes being nearly un-Googleable. But she has nonetheless been a pivotal player in some of Congress’s biggest battles — and will be central in many of the body’s coming clashes should Democrats retake the House. “I have worked in a majority, then minority in Oversight, waged a battle against...
  
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• Marcus Towns: Member services director, House Appropriations Committee Republicans

  15-09-2026 12:01 via thehill.com
  
  Advancing any legislation with a slim Republican majority is a challenge, but navigating the variety of GOP viewpoints while trying to advance appropriations bills adds a new layer of difficulty.For Marcus Towns, the member services director for the House Appropriations Committee, it helps to be a people person.“It's a very personality-driven job,” Towns...
  
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• Julia Bartusek: Executive director, House Democratic Women’s Caucus

  15-09-2026 12:01 via thehill.com
  
  Julia Bartusek never expected to end up in Washington. The executive director of the House Democratic Women’s Caucus grew up on a pig farm in Minnesota, a far cry from the halls of Congress where she now helps shape one of the House Democrats’ most prominent coalitions. But she said that she’s always had an...
  
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• Jessica Hayes: Senior adviser in district, Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.)

  15-09-2026 12:01 via thehill.com
  
  Jessica Hayes said serving in Georgia’s 10th Congressional District during the chaotic and deadly U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan in August 2021 was a “holy calling.” Now a senior adviser working in the 9th District for Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), Hayes was working for former Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.) when the office started getting calls from...
  
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• Christiana Stephenson: Communications director, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)

  15-09-2026 12:01 via thehill.com
  
  Christiana Stephenson has spent more than seven years helping House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) navigate the relentless communications demands of House Democratic leadership. Stephenson joined Jeffries’s leadership operation as press secretary in January 2019, when he was House Democratic Caucus chair. She has been with him ever since. Her path to the Capitol was less direct. Stephenson first...
  
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• Chris Bien: Deputy chief of staff, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)

  15-09-2026 12:01 via thehill.com
  
  Managing the House floor is a big job in any Speaker's office. That challenge is turned up to the max in the current House Republican majority, where super-slim margins and a culture of rebellion make drama on the House floor a regular occurrence. Chris Bien, Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) deputy chief of staff, has helped...
  
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• Carrie Hughes: Health and human services director, House Education and the Workforce Committee 

  15-09-2026 12:01 via thehill.com
  
  Carrie Hughes knows she is somewhat of a rarity on Capitol Hill.Her first job as a congressional aide was in the office of Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.). Eighteen years later, he’s the only member she has worked for. Hughes started in Scott’s personal office and now serves as the director of Health and...
  
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• Andrew Bower: Deputy staff director, House Oversight Committee Democrats

  15-09-2026 12:01 via thehill.com
  
  Andrew Bower followed Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) from his personal office to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee as Democrats elevated a fresh face, and with him, a fresh new approach to investigations. The committee has faced an avalanche of issues, but it's the probe into deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that Bower said “has...
  
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• Alyssa Erdel: Deputy chief of staff, House Republican Conference

  15-09-2026 12:01 via thehill.com
  
  Heading up member services is a “chameleon position,” Alyssa Erdel says — highly adaptable depending on the vision of the lawmaker in charge, whether for the House’s Republican Conference or in a committee. “My mission is always the same: I listen, identify what's missing, build trusted relationships, solve problems, and fill voids,” Erdel said. Erdel...
  
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• The 25 notable Capitol Hill staffers for 2026

  15-09-2026 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  The 119th Congress has had no shortage of pitched battles, fragile negotiations and high-profile scandals. Lawmakers may have taken center stage in each, but today we’re featuring 25 staffers who worked diligently behind the scenes on the issues in the spotlight: the legislative director who drafted the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the Ethics Committee staff...
  
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• GOP leaders throw cold water on AI regulation despite apocalyptic industry warnings

  15-09-2026 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  GOP leaders in the Capitol and White House are throwing cold water on the notion of quickly adopting new AI safeguards, despite an apocalyptic new warning from industry titans about the threat the technology poses to humankind. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) quickly dismissed the idea of moving swiftly to enact new regulations on the rapidly...
  
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• Nancy Mace calls for public execution of Lindsay Clancy

  15-09-2026 05:04 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said Monday that Lindsay Clancy should be publicly executed, as the Massachusetts woman faces a new trial for allegedly murdering her three children. “Her children are dead, she should be dead too,” Mace told TMZ. The South Carolina Republican later said, “She should get the death penalty. It should be public,...
  
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• Russia sanctions bill passes House Rules Committee

  15-09-2026 04:31 via thehill.com
  
  The House Rules Committee on Monday approved bipartisan legislation aimed at increasing sanctions on Russia amid its war in Ukraine. The bill, which the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) championed, would allow President Trump to impose penalties on individuals working on behalf of the Russian government to stall peace negotiations with Ukraine, violate a negotiated...
  
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• Blanche to hold press briefing in Rose Garden Tuesday

  15-09-2026 02:39 via thehill.com
  
  Attorney General Todd Blanche will brief reporters in the White House Rose Garden on Tuesday, as he will become the latest administration official to fill the shoes of former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. A White House official confirmed to NewsNation, The Hill’s sister network, that Blanche will speak to members of the press. ...
  
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• Paxton gets $54M boost from Senate Leadership Fund's Texas PAC

  15-09-2026 01:47 via thehill.com
  
  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) Senate campaign received nearly $54 million from the GOP-aligned Senate Leadership Fund’s (SLF) Texas affiliate, according to a filing. The Austin-based Texas PAC donated more than $53.8 million to Paxton’s campaign, based on filings to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). The committee is affiliated with the SLF, which is...
  
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• Supreme Court won’t restore Trump’s mail-in voting plan for midterms 

  15-09-2026 01:46 via thehill.com
  
  The Supreme Court refused to clear the way for President Trump’s mail-in voting plan for the midterms on Monday over the dissents of two conservative justices, keeping intact a judge’s block that declared the plan unlawful. It’s the third time the Trump administration brought the plan to the high court’s emergency docket after groups have blocked the effort. Previously, the...
  
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• 6 takeaways as Trump takes sledgehammer to power plant climate regs

  15-09-2026 00:56 via thehill.com
  
  The Trump administration on Monday gutted the rules governing the nation’s climate regulations for power plants.Here’s what you should know about the final rule from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): It axes most, but not all, power plant climate rules The rules, which have been announced but whose underlying text did not appear to...
  
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• As AI fears spike, Trump bats down calls for regulation

  14-09-2026 23:45 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump is downplaying the growing concerns about artificial intelligence and resisting calls for regulation, putting him out of step with a growing chorus of concerns coming from within the tech industry and both sides of the political aisle. Trump, speaking with reporters over the weekend and in social media posts on Monday, said warnings...
  
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• Trump nominates Wesley Hunt to Saudi Arabia ambassador post

  14-09-2026 23:05 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Monday nominated Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas) to serve as U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Trump sent the nominations of Hunt and a slew of other individuals to the Senate, which has to confirm his appointments. The U.S. has not had a full-time ambassador to Saudi Arabia since Michael Ratney left office at...
  
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• Trump guts climate rules for coal and gas power plants

  14-09-2026 22:45 via thehill.com
  
  The Trump administration on Monday gutted regulations that limited planet-warming emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants.The move allows a sector that makes up a large share of the U.S.’s climate change contributions to release greenhouse gases unchecked by the government. It’s expected to be a win for the fossil fuel industry, while allowing...
  
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• Jeffries calls on Congress to stay in Washington to address AI concerns

  14-09-2026 22:45 via thehill.com
  
  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is calling on House GOP leaders to remain in Washington to allow Congress to consider new limits on AI companies following dire warnings from industry insiders about the threat the technology poses to humanity.  Speaking to reporters Monday in the Capitol, Jeffries said the calls for a slowdown from...
  
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• Chicago Democratic mayor says he'll run for reelection

  14-09-2026 22:32 via thehill.com
  
  Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) announced Sunday he is running for reelection, more than three years after he ascended to the office. “My name is Brandon Johnson, and I am running for reelection in the greatest fricking city in the world, Chicago,” an impassioned Johnson said at a rally, to cheers of “four more years”...
  
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• Trump adds extra sanctions to Russian bank for ties to Iran

  14-09-2026 22:31 via thehill.com
  
  The Trump administration on Monday added extra sanctions on one of Russia’s largest financial institutions, VTB, over its ties to Iran, layering on penalties first imposed because of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.  The Treasury Department is redesignating VTB as part of the administration’s “Operation Economic Outcast.” The sanctions campaign was launched in August to...
  
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