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The strange case of the casino, the Senate leader and the defense bill
Another lobbyist, Rob Lehman of D.C.’s WilmerHale firm, also received $90,000 from the Catawba Nation in the first nine months of 2021.
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Another lobbyist, Rob Lehman of D.C.’s WilmerHale firm, also received $90,000 from the Catawba Nation in the first nine months of 2021.
Delaying those taxes to 2023 — including a new “surcharge” on multimillionaires’ income and a new tax on owners of “pass-through” businesses, including partnerships and S corporations — could cost
In October 2011, she wrote a letter to then-FBI director Robert S. Mueller III saying the definition unfairly excluded victims who were drugged or impaired by alcohol and “explicitly excludes men.”
Losing can often breed more losing. Washington Democrats are on a remarkable losing streak, with few clear answers on how to get a win.
“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.
addition to the 10 Democratic senators mentioned above, the list of Senate liberals in the 107th Congress included California’s Barbara Boxer, New York’s Hillary Clinton, Iowa’s Tom Harkin, Maryland’s Paul S.
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.
| Congress will soon decide whether to agree to a Biden administration proposal to cut spending on Defense Department programs that detect and counter diseases, even as COVID-19’s U.S. death toll
At first, McConnell and Schumer discussed attaching the provision to the fiscal 2022 defense authorization measure (S 1605), but that plan ran into pushback from Republicans who didn’t want to tie
The cryptocurrency industry plans to spend next year building on 2021’s record political engagement to lobby Congress and regulators for clarity around tax reporting, stablecoins and asset classes.
Christopher S. Murphy said.
New permutations of S. B. 8 are coming.
House and Senate leaders removed bipartisan provisions targeting Saudi Arabia before the House passed its defense policy bill.
The final version disappointed Washington, D.C.’s delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, because it did not grant the D.C. mayor control over the city’s National Guard troops.
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
This summer, the Senate passed a comprehensive China competition policy bill (S 1260) that included a provision requiring a diplomatic boycott of the games.
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