House GOP plans special closed-door meeting to address split on spy powers House Republicans are planning a conference meeting early next week to try to privately work out a longstanding split on how to change a controversial surveillance authority. GOP leadership told members there would be an all-members meeting Monday night to discuss reauthorizing Section…

Exclusive: U.K. Foreign Secretary Cameron’s immigration’s warning to senators David Cameron brought immigration warnings about Europe’s populist uprising to Washington this week — just as senators are trying to negotiate a border security deal. The former British prime minister, now foreign secretary, was dispatched Washington this week for meetings with top lawmakers. He told senators…

Tuberville dropped the right’s anti-abortion mantle. No one in the GOP is picking it up. Tommy Tuberville spent months casting himself as the Senate’s anti-abortion martyr. Now that he’s dropped the torch, nobody is looking to pick it up. Tuberville’s months-long blockade of military promotions not only failed to prompt a change in the Biden…

Fetterman defends ‘reasonable’ border talks as fellow Dems fume As stalled immigration negotiations imperil U.S. aid to Ukraine and Israel, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) is blaming not only Republicans but also members of his own party for what he described as a reflexive political resistance to a border security deal. “I hope Democrats can understand…

Ally-friendly ‘Buy American’ requirement makes it into compromise NDAA A compromise defense policy bill unveiled late Wednesday includes a House-passed requirement that more U.S. military hardware be made in America, nixing a stricter Senate-passed requirement. Negotiators adopted language from Rep. Donald Norcross (D-N.J.) that would codify into law an executive order by President Joe Biden…