Roughly half of Congress own individual stocks, but members tend to make disproportionately higher returns on their trades and investments than ordinary Americans on the market. Are senators and representatives insider trading?

To get to the heart of this question, Drop Site’s Julian Andreone will be embarking on a new series — Capitol GAINS. He’ll analyze the most significant stock trades and traders in Congress each week, examining the committees they sit on, the returns they’ve made, and any conflicts of interest or news developments that make the trades particularly notable.

Israel has killed more than 270 Palestinian journalists in Gaza over the last two years, and foreign reporters remain barred from entering the territory.

What does Congress actually know—and what are they doing about it? Drop Site’s Julian Andreone went to Capitol Hill and pressed members, not just on press freedom but on Israeli ceasefire violations and whether they plan to take action in response.

As the media and members of Congress were sifting through the latest Jeffrey Epstein files released by the Department of Justice, one topic continued to elude them — Epstein’s well-established ties to Israeli and U.S. intelligence.

Drop Site’s Washington correspondent, Julian Andreone, went to Capitol Hill to put that question directly to members of Congress. Here’s how they responded.