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House Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith conducts a hearing in May 2021.

Military budget set to swell

By Peter Cohn and John M. Donnelly
Posted June 24, 2022 at 1:34pm
Chairman Jack Reed, left, and ranking member Sen. James M. Inhofe are seen at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in 2021. Disputes in the panel over defense spending could stall appropriations.

Defense spending battle lines

By David Lerman and Peter Cohn
Posted June 17, 2022 at 1:48pm
From right, House Appropriations Chair Rosa DeLauro and Reps. Barbara Lee and Katherine Clark are pictured during a committee hearing in the Rayburn Building on March 31.

Appropriations kickoff

By David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted June 10, 2022 at 12:25pm
The Capitol dome reflects in the Lower Senate Park reflecting pool on May 15.

UFOs in budget projections

By David Lerman and Peter Cohn
Posted May 27, 2022 at 12:48pm
Senate Small Business Chairman Benjamin L. Cardin, left, and Sen. Roger Wicker worked on the bipartisan small-business aid package that was blocked in a procedural vote on Thursday.

Pandemic aid derailment

By David Lerman and Lindsey McPherson
Posted May 20, 2022 at 2:20pm
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was the lone Senate holdout on aid for Ukraine, pushing the measure to next week.

Senate fumbles on Ukraine aid

By David Lerman and Peter Cohn
Posted May 13, 2022 at 2:06pm
The latest episode of CQ Budget takes a look at some of the pieces complicating aid measures for Ukraine and COVID-19.

Aid package puzzle

By David Lerman and Lindsey McPherson
Posted May 6, 2022 at 1:50pm
The Ukrainian flag is raised by demonstrators outside the Russian Embassy in Washington on Feb. 27. Additional aid to Ukraine is mired in a congressional funding fight.

Aid quandary for Congress

By David Lerman and Peter Cohn
Posted April 29, 2022 at 1:35pm
Fog surrounds the Capitol dome on the morning of March 18, 2022. Congress faces a heavy legislative agenda when it returns after the April recess.

Unfinished fiscal agenda

By David Lerman and Paul M. Krawzak
Posted April 15, 2022 at 1:40pm
Migrants caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border are loaded into a transport van by Border Patrol agents in Sunland Park, N.M., on July 22, 2021. A fight over ending the Title 42 expulsion policy derailed a bipartisan deal in the Senate this week on COVID-19 aid.

Pandemic aid package derailed

By David Lerman and Aidan Quigley
Posted April 8, 2022 at 1:19pm