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Amtrak’s proposed $80 billion windfall: Too much or too little?
As Congress weighs Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan, how the money for passenger rail would be spent will be an important question.
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As Congress weighs Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan, how the money for passenger rail would be spent will be an important question.
one of the city’s top-grossing lobbying firms, reported $12.5 million in fees in the first quarter, down from $12.6 million in the first quarter of last year but up slightly from $12.4 million in 2020’s
the Georgia law embarrassed Republicans, business has not joined Democrats in their proposed solution to that law’s election strictures — the voting rights, campaign finance and ethics bill, known as S
President Biden has picked two experienced professionals for top cybersecurity posts with backgrounds in national security.
It’s even more problematic for fiscal 2022 appropriations, since there’s little chance Republicans in the 50-50 Senate will go along with Appropriations subcommittee allocations, known as 302(b)s,
Parliamentarian advisory on reconciliation instructions could possibly trigger more filibuster-proof legislative packages.
The House transportation chairman tried to keep the low-cost Norwegian airline out of the U.S. in 2016. Now it's back.
Included would be $50 billion for semiconductor research and manufacturing plus $50 billion for the National Science Foundation
The biofuels industry is disappointed that Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure proposal makes little mention of biofuels.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday will outline a wide swath of changes to investing in the U.S. infrastructure system.
‘No clear path’ José Ceballos, a longtime chief lobbyist for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association who recently joined the lobby shop S-3 Group, said clients, taking their cues from Capitol
While 49 of the 50 Senate Democrats support S 1, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin III is not on board with the full package.
Also being considered is a $2 trillion energy tax, raising the estate tax and potentially taking aim at small businesses and S corporations.
Toomey ‘s floor comments echoed his criticism of Fudge at the Feb. 4 committee vote for her response to his question about better targeting HUD programs to low-income people.
Senate Democrats won two procedural battles Monday on a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package they hope to pass by week’s end.
On votes that split a majority of Republicans from a majority of Democrats in 2020, the average Democratic representative voted with his party 98 percent of the time, matching 2019’s record level.
After spending weeks denouncing the mob attack on the Capitol and the past president’s role in the assault, Democratic stalwart Christopher S.
Christopher S. Murphy confirmed Pelosi’s announcement that a bill to boost funding for Capitol and member security is in the works.
Even Trump, after his success using reconciliation to enact 2017’s tax overhaul, worked with Democrats on 2018’s law to offer more leniency to nonviolent criminals and to improve prison programs aimed
lead and when to let the experts take over,” Samsel said, referring to blowback within the Commerce Department when National Weather Service staff contradicted Trump’s incorrect insistence that 2019’s