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Double-booked: Busy budget season highlights scheduling woes
A CQ Roll Call analysis shows at least 10 House appropriators are expected to be at two simultaneous hearings on Thursday.
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Interior official: Border wall helps environment, sacred sites
Border wall construction has triggered a raft of environmental lawsuits, including over the destruction of Native American sacred ancestral sites.
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Bern notice: House Democratic leaders calm rank and file as Clyburn boosts Biden
Democrats tamped down concerns members have been privately raising about the down-ballot effect of a potential Bernie Sanders presidential nomination.
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How the military could tip the census scales, explained
Gaining or losing representation depends upon who is counted where in the census. Troops abroad could tip the scales in favor of one state over another.
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Trump open to higher price tag for emergency coronavirus funds
President Donald Trump says he’s willing to accept whatever spending level Congress deems appropriate to combat the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
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Carbon-free nuclear power in a crisis just when it’s most needed
Carbon-free nuclear power in a crisis just when it’s most needed - Energy
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House wants anti-lynching bill on Trump’s desk this week
Congress will send Trump bill to make lynching a federal crime for first time, long overdue recognition of country’s history of hateful acts, sponsors say.
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House Democrats announce annual retreat for April in Philadelphia
House Democrats will decamp to Philadelphia on April 1-3 for their annual "Issues Conference" retreat, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries announced Wednesday.
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Will America get a Space National Guard?
The United States has a new military service, the Space Force, but it has never been clear whether or not America will also have a Space Guard and Reserve.
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The waste problem continues to weigh down nuclear power
The Trump administration may have put final nail in the coffin of a long-studied effort to build a permanent repository for nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
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DHS expands programs that fast-track asylum process
The Department of Homeland Security has broadly expanded two pilot programs that fast-track the deportations of asylum-seeking migrants at the U.S. border.
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A trillion trees not enough to fix climate crisis, critics say
Democrats and scientists told Republicans embracing the proposal the trees won't put a dent in the climate crisis, but reducing carbon emissions will
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Surveillance standoff ahead as attorney general seeks ‘clean’ reauthorization
Congress could be headed for a standoff over reauthorizing key surveillance standards, as Attorney General William Barr seeks little changes.
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Senate confirms a second former lobbyist atop Interior
The Senate confirmed former lobbyist Katharine MacGregor to be deputy secretary of the Interior Department, filing a post that sat vacant since late 2018.
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Coronavirus threatens U.S. military base operations in Europe, general says
Spread of coronavirus in Europe is affecting operations on some U.S. military bases in Italy and could soon extend to the thousands of personnel in Germany.
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Senators: Trump coronavirus request just a down payment
White House officials tell senators that request for $2.5B to combat coronavirus outbreak is just the beginning, with more needed as early as this fall.
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Democrats resist plan for new student aid agency
Buried within the Education Department’s fiscal 2021 budget request is a proposal that would transform student loan financing.
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Who champions judicial nominees from Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico?
Despite absence of senators to champion them, the Senate confirmed judges for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands with overwhelming bipartisan support.
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Elections have consequences, but so do election years
Pentagon planners say the defense budget needs to grow by 3 to 5 percent annually. And that growth needs to be in real terms, above inflation.
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Senate rejects effort to advance anti-abortion bills
The votes come the week before the Supreme Court holds oral arguments in a highly anticipated case involving a Louisiana abortion law.