Congress · 116th Congress
Bipartisan coronavirus relief package not winning GOP converts
The bipartisan group didn’t include direct payments in their plan because they were told Republicans wouldn’t accept a package costing over $1 trillion.
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Congress · 116th Congress
Cannon renovation expected to go $137 million over budget
Phase 1 began in January 2017 and was projected to be finished by November 2018.
Congress · 116th Congress
Bipartisan coronavirus relief talks stuck on liability waiver
The plan would provide $1 billion for states to upgrade their unemployment systems for technology modernization and fraud prevention.
Congress · 116th Congress
Inauguration planning the latest thing to enter the controversy zone
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Capitol Insiders Survey finds staffers pessimistic on virus relief
Now, it seems, Trump will not sign a bill even as generous as the $1 trillion measure McConnell offered in July.
Congress · 116th Congress
Bipartisan coronavirus relief package hits snags over details
The group initially ran into some trouble with Congressional Budget Office scoring of their four-month unemployment benefits proposal, which they intended to be retroactive to Dec. 1.
Congress · 116th Congress
Adulting might be alive and well in Congress
[jwp-video n=”1″] But in the latter part of his career, Kennedy worked well with people who didn’t necessarily share his ideology, like Ohio Republican John A.
Congress · 116th Congress
Sage grouse, biomass riders trip up omnibus spending bill
The aide said Republicans have proposed negating House report language on a number of topics, including support for $1 million for a National Academies study on reducing racial and ethnic inequalities
Congress · 116th Congress
Timeline for massive year-end bill slipping
agree with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy that $12.5 billion set aside as emergency funds should instead fit within the overall $626.5 billion nondefense cap for the budget year that began Oct. 1.
Congress · 116th Congress
Defense bill seeks to bolster military’s pandemic response
The bill also establishes a coronavirus disease panel to review the military health system’s response to the pandemic and report the findings to Congress by June 1, 2021.
Congress · 116th Congress
No cheers or jeers at the mostly virtual House office lottery
[jwp-video n=”1″] There’s a computer system that members-elect and staff can peruse, which includes some key details about the office suites, including if the office is eligible for new carpet
Congress · 116th Congress
How diverse is the Democratic leadership team compared to the caucus?
Ideologically, the 117th Congress will be nearly equally split between progressive and moderate Democrats, but progressives outnumber moderates in leadership 2-to-1.
Congress · 116th Congress
As recovery bills languish, transit systems cut service
The agency’s budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1, released in the aftermath of a projected $500 million budget shortfall, was the latest cry for help from a transportation mode that is
Congress · 116th Congress
Signs of life for coronavirus relief as bipartisan plan wins key backing
another short-term stopgap funding bill is likely given lingering disagreements on an omnibus package wrapping together $1.4 trillion in unfinished agency budgets for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.
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House releases 2021 legislative calendar
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Comment period underway on paid family leave policies for Capitol Hill workers
While these benefits went into place on Oct. 1, 2020, Congress is operating under interim guidance that does not have the same force of law as final regulations.
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Lawmakers line up showdown with Trump over Confederate base names
[jwp-video n=”1″] Veto threats Trump had threatened to veto the bill if it required name changes at military installations that honor Confederates, such as Fort Benning in Georgia, where two
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Lamar! bids farewell, says Senate not voting on big issues is a ‘waste of talent’
[jwp-video n=”1″] “We first met in 1969, when I was working for a freshman senator named Marlow Cook and he worked down in the executive branch.
Congress · 116th Congress
Rosa DeLauro wins panel vote for Appropriations gavel
[jwp-video n=”1″] Wasserman Schultz released a set of proposals to overhaul the panel’s operations that have won plaudits, including on setting aside funds for minority and underserved communities
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Trump-era court battles weaken congressional power
[jwp-video n=”1″] How bad depends to some extent on what future presidents choose to do, Somin said, as well as the outcome of related challenges to Trump actions in lower courts centered on