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Earmarks flood spending bills after a year’s hiatus
Congressional earmarks returned with a vengeance in fiscal 2026, with familiar faces topping the rankings in each chamber.
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Congressional earmarks returned with a vengeance in fiscal 2026, with familiar faces topping the rankings in each chamber.
Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn. "And we want to stay together."↵↵Sen.
To win Republican support, Senate negotiators promised that a bipartisan COVID-19 aid package would be fully paid for.
You know what kind of defense systems we need: S-300 and others,” the Ukrainian president said.
Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Menendez, D-N.J. said he was pleased to see so many of the announced sanctions match what was in contained in legislation (S 3488) he previously wrote.
Lawmakers sharply criticized the FCC and FAA process leading up to the deployment of 5G wireless technology around airports last month.
Markey, D-Mass., and other progressives have rallied behind their own infrastructure vision in a Green New Deal-like resolution (H Res 104, S Res. 43) calling for what sponsors say would amount to about
The House transportation chairman tried to keep the low-cost Norwegian airline out of the U.S. in 2016. Now it's back.
‘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
Limiting Chinese influence at the world body and focusing on refugees will be among Linda Thomas-Greenfield's priorities as chief diplomat to the U.N.
It is a collection of proposals meant to induce Americans to save more for their retirement, including a proposed increase in the age for required minimum distributions from 401(k)s and other tax-favored
The industry has taken some comfort in a House bill (HR 7642) and a Senate bill (S 4150) that would provide it $10 billion, but they have not advanced from committee.
The $100 billion for hospitals in the bill (S 3548) — almost a third of the package — would provide reimbursement to cover health care expenses and lost revenue due to the outbreak of COVID-19.
var rcrdTwitter = 1; Last year, Facebook, under pressure on Capitol Hill and from the executive branch, spent more on federal lobbying, $16.7 million, than ever before — more than 30 percent above 2018’s
That is except, of course, when former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III seizes all the attention when he testifies before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees.
The House passed the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill that would give D.C.’s emergency planning fund $16 million, an increase of $4 million over the previous fiscal year.
The top televised hearing of the week, however, is likely to come Thursday when the House Judiciary panel holds its second in a series of hearings on lessons from former special counsel Robert S.
The Judiciary Committee had hoped to bring Robert S. Mueller III in himself to discuss his report, but that is not likely to happen this week as talks about getting him to testify continue.
Norm Dicks of Washington, who was once the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, has represented Boeing’s interests in defense policy, as has the S-3 Group, whose partners include former
He’s not concerned about the anti-lobbyist, anti-corporate positions of some of the panel’s newest members, such as Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts freshman Democrat Ayanna S. Pressley.