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“I think proponents will be less willing to compromise, because several ‘S’ as well as ‘E’ proposals got either high or majority support, so there is going to be a reluctance on the proponent side
Photo finish For 2021’s final print issue of Roll Call this week, our photojournalist team shared their 21 best pictures of the year.
Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn., to modify his consent request to include confirmation of several stalled diplomatic nominees including Nicholas Burns to serve as the U.S. ambassador to China.
As Congress seeks solutions to a supply chain crisis, one suggestion keeps recurring: Address the trucker shortage.
At a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing last week, Republicans balked at Democratic bills that would carve out exceptions to Section 230’s protections for civil rights violations or cases
Lawmakers are expected to increase the level of annual security assistance Ukraine receives to $300 million, up from enacted levels of roughly $275 million, according to the text of the final comprise bill (S
Some 295 S&P 500 companies now have policies for general board oversight of political spending, up 13.9 percent from 2020, according to a report released this week from the Center for Political Accountability
The count: 13.9% That’s how many more S&P 500 companies gave their boards of directors oversight of political spending in the past year, a sign corporations recognize how public perceptions about
The task force is co-chaired by Landrieu and National Economic Council Director Brian Deese and will include Buttigieg; Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S.
Jim Risch of Idaho, the top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, and 29 other GOP colleagues have filed a bill (S 2863) that would require sanctions on individuals indirectly or directly engaged
Some of the regulatory reaction so far includes the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in June advising consumers of the benefits and pitfalls, and the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority’s announcement
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Donald S. Beyer Jr., a Ways and Means member, said this week that he expects international tax changes to make it into the final bill.
The Securities and Exchange Commission in August approved Nasdaq Inc.’s requirement for listed companies to have at least one female director and at least one person from an underrepresented minority or
Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn., who hours earlier had dismissed McConnell’s offer as a “terrible idea,” said using reconciliation to raise the debt limit would set a “horrendous” precedent.
“There is enough s— going on without us adding problems. That’s not a good look.” But Democrats stressed the bill will eventually pass. “It’ll get done,” said Nevada Sen.
Christopher S. Murphy, the Democratic catcher, looks down, can bask in the glory of their win.
The reconciliation proposal would require employers that don’t already have retirement plans to provide workers with auto-enrolling savings accounts, such as 401(k)s or Individual Retirement Accounts
This includes defined benefit plans, such as pensions; defined contribution plans, such as 401(k)s for private sector employees and 403(b)s for public educators and employees of nonprofits and government
Scientists already have engineered mushrooms to make leather and programmed DNA to store data files — all of Shakespeare’s sonnets and a snippet of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech