https://pressclub.us/tags/congress/ Recent content in congress on Press Club US Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pressclub.us/trump-administration-clears-saudi-nuclear-deal-without-enrichment-safeguards/ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pressclub.us/trump-administration-clears-saudi-nuclear-deal-without-enrichment-safeguards/ The Trump administration has finalized a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia that opens the door to the Kingdom enriching uranium on its own soil, forgoing the strictest nonproliferation conditions that arms control advocates had pushed for. The deal, structured as a 30-year “123 Agreement,” is designed to give US companies a central role in building out Saudi nuclear infrastructure, including a domestically sited enrichment facility, while generating billions of dollars in contracts for the American nuclear industry. https://pressclub.us/f-110-engines-to-turkey-congress-has-15-days-to-say-no/ Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pressclub.us/f-110-engines-to-turkey-congress-has-15-days-to-say-no/ The Trump administration notified Congress on June 24 that it intends to sell more than $700 million worth of GE Aerospace F-110 engines to Turkey, enough to power roughly 80 units for Ankara’s indigenous KAAN fighter program. Congress now has a narrow, fifteen-day statutory window to introduce a joint resolution of disapproval. That window is closing, and it should be used. The case against the sale is not abstract. Turkey still operates the Russian-made S-400 air defense system it purchased in 2019 — the same purchase that got Ankara expelled from the F-35 program in the first place and triggered CAATSA sanctions that remain in effect today. https://pressclub.us/garamendi-calls-trumps-iran-mou-nothing-as-markets-price-a-victory/ Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pressclub.us/garamendi-calls-trumps-iran-mou-nothing-as-markets-price-a-victory/ The same agreement produced two verdicts this week. Wall Street read the US-Iran memorandum of understanding as the end of a war, sent oil below $79, and pushed the major indices to records. A senior Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee read it as a hollow ceasefire that settles nothing. Both verdicts are defensible, because they are measuring different things — and the gap between them is the story.