Congress · 117th Congress
Record pace for green cards won’t last without congressional action
Backlog remains But the impact on the larger backlog as a whole — estimated to include more than 1 million immigrants — remains to be seen, analysts said.
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Congress · 117th Congress
Manchin unveils permitting proposal as battle lines harden
Schumer, D-N.Y., has pledged to include the legislation in a continuing resolution needed to fund the federal government before the beginning of fiscal 2023 on Oct. 1.
Congress · 117th Congress
Pipeline’s backers have financial, campaign ties
The Equitrans PAC was first registered on Oct. 1, 2018, federal records show. Manchin has received $10,000 from the same PAC, which also gave $7,500 to Sen. John Barrasso’s campaign.
Congress · 117th Congress
Power Rankings: How political players resemble the top college football teams in all the land
Playoff-bound 1. Alabama — Senate Majority Leader Charles E.
Congress · 117th Congress
72 Democrats sign letter opposing Manchin permitting bill
permitting laws, rewrite the Clean Water Act and approve a gas pipeline should not be folded into the so-called continuing resolution, or CR, to fund the government in the new fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.
Congress · 117th Congress
Doctors lobby Congress for Medicare payment bump, again
Doctors are again ramping up what has become a perennial lobbying campaign to urge Congress to increase Medicare payments in order to offset cuts scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1.
Congress · 117th Congress
Stopgap funding bill set to dominate September agenda
Washington this month to wrestle with a White House request for $47.1 billion in emergency supplemental funds and the need to pass a stopgap spending bill to avoid a partial government shutdown starting Oct. 1.
Congress · 117th Congress
White House $47B supplemental request seeks COVID, Ukraine funding
Congress reconvenes next week to start working on stopgap funding legislation on which President Joe Biden’s signature is required before Oct. 1 in order to avert a partial government shutdown.
Congress · 117th Congress
Pentagon discloses a record rate of sexual assaults
Of all servicemembers, 8.4 percent of women (roughly 1 in 12) and 1.5 percent of men said they had been assaulted or that someone had tried to assault them.
Congress · 117th Congress
House prepping stopgap funding bill through mid-December
Anything that can’t get 60 votes in the evenly divided Senate will need to be dropped or risk being unable to pass a continuing resolution by Oct. 1, which would lead to a partial government shutdown
Congress · 117th Congress
Lawmakers may argue about climate change, but they want seawalls
The U.S. is on track for 1 foot in sea level rise by 2050 and 2 feet by 2100, according to NOAA and NASA.
Congress · 117th Congress
Earmarks’ future unclear as Republicans split ahead of midterms
Republicans voted in March 2021 to allow conference members to request earmarks after Democrats announced they would be bringing the practice back with public disclosure of all requests and a cap at 1
Congress · 117th Congress
Biden signs major climate, health care and tax bill into law
The package is estimated to cut the federal deficit by about $300 billion over the next decade, thanks to revenue raisers that include a 15 percent minimum tax on the largest corporations, a 1 percent
Congress · 117th Congress
Budget bill clears as Democrats seek to head off midterm losses
Combined with last year’s bipartisan infrastructure law that represents the other pillar of Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda, Democrats will have delivered on roughly $1 trillion out of the $4
Campaigns · 117th Congress
Herrera Beutler, who voted to impeach Trump, concedes loss in primary
A mandatory recount would occur if the margin of votes between the No. 2 and No. 3 candidates is less than half of 1 percent and closer than 2,000 votes, the AP reported.
Congress · 117th Congress
Crypto sector lobbying expenditures up a third in second quarter
The cryptocurrency exchange spent $1.3 million last quarter, almost a fifth of all lobbying expenditures by the industry, with spending on its internal lobbying team accounting for $1 million of
Congress · 117th Congress
Democrats stand ground against GOP immigration amendments
James Lankford, R-Okla., offered the amendment that would provide $1 million for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue expelling asylum-seekers at the U.S.
Congress · 117th Congress
Thune breaks through Democratic bloc on ‘vote-a-rama’ amendments
James Lankford, R-Okla., offered an amendment to provide $1 million for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue to implement Title 42 until 120 days after the termination of the COVID
Congress · 117th Congress
Sweeping budget package passes Senate; House on deck Friday
[Sinema ready to advance budget bill after tax changes] The new taxes that made it into the Senate’s final bill are a 1 percent tax on what public companies spend on stock buybacks and a 15
Congress · 117th Congress
After four-hour debate, Senate begins voting on budget bill amendments
Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., including adjustments to a 15 percent corporate minimum tax based on income reported to shareholders, a 1 percent tax on companies’ stock buybacks and $4 billion for drought relief