More former members of Congress win election for lower office this year
They’ll represent more people than when they served in the House (close to 1 million constituents versus around 760,000).  "It’s prestige.
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Baseline Battleground: How the partisan landscape has shifted after the election
Even after the 2016 elections, Democrats had just a 1-point Baseline edge in Virginia, but that’s far from the case now.
Biden floats recess action on Helene supplemental
town last week, Congress passed a stopgap funding measure that includes a provision allowing the Federal Emergency Management Agency to tap into about $20 billion in disaster relief funds beginning Oct. 1,
Tuberville blocks an Army nominee over Austin hospitalization
He was readmitted to the hospital on Jan. 1 for complications stemming from the earlier procedure.During his January hospital stay, Austin spent time in the intensive care unit, and some of his duties
Departing GOP leader dominates Senate earmark rankings
McConnell says he’s already helped deliver more than $1 billion in federal funds toward the project over the years, and the fiscal 2025 dollars are all but guaranteed given the $218 million is also included
Navy in court over Pearl Harbor water contamination
Hawaii’s congressional delegation was able to include $1 billion for Red Hill cleanup activities in last year’s National Defense Authorization Act, but Tanaka is not hopeful for a full cleanup given the
Senate readies for Mayorkas impeachment showdown
Schumer, D-N.Y., said the chamber would swear in senators as jurors at 1 p.m. on Wednesday.
Critical spending decisions await Tuesday White House meeting
Andy Harris, R-Md., that panel’s subcommittee chairman, is insisting that in exchange for adding about $1 billion to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children food program
Johnson offers up two-tiered stopgap funds plan
Other extensions The measure would extend most lapsed farm bill programs through Sept. 30, 2024, retroactive to the beginning of this fiscal year on Oct. 1.Â
Republicans seek roadblocks for FCC’s school bus Wi-Fi plan
In a divided vote, the five-member Federal Communications Commission issued a declaratory ruling on Oct. 19 that it will allow E-Rate program funding to be used for Wi-Fi on school buses starting July 1,
Lawmakers urge expanded ‘basic needs allowance’ for troops
Nearly 1 in 4 active-duty servicemembers — or about 286,800 people, not counting their family members — are beset by food insecurity, according to the most recent Pentagon survey of the force.
Lawmakers look at data privacy in post-Dobbs world
Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, abortion prosecution was not a new phenomenon: According to Pregnancy Justice, there were 1,396 criminal arrests for pregnancy-related cases between Jan. 1,
Senate mulls going first on stopgap, supplemental funds package
After Labor Day, lawmakers will have just a few weeks to avert a partial government shutdown when current appropriations lapse on Oct. 1.
Generational shift ushers in new era for Senate earmarks split
For the second consecutive year, Alaska is fourth in overall earmarks but No. 1 in per capita "congressionally directed spending," with about $633.88 per resident in the Senate bills.
Big shoes filled as Senate appropriators spread earmarks wealth
Republican on the Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee, secured $465 million for her remote home state, a slight decrease from last year’s Senate bills but still enough to put her at No. 1.
Washington’s defense spending habit is a cluster bomb of strategic risk
His decision shows that since Washington Republicans and Democrats have decided a peacetime U.S. military needs a military budget on a path toward $1 trillion a year, U.S. allies are going to expect Washington
House, Senate majorities putting their stamps on earmarks
While spending in those two bills would grow by close to 1 percent combined from what the Senate panel released initially last year, the new Senate Appropriations leadership this year would cut earmarked
NDAA takes aim at critical mineral supply chain
The fiscal 2023 defense policy bill boosted the National Defense Stockpile by $1 billion specifically to acquire critical minerals.
Wide gulf between debt limit negotiators as time grows short
The precarious nature of negotiations has lawmakers on both sides of the aisle worried about their ability to lift the debt limit before June 1, when the Treasury Department expects it may run out of cash
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Lawmakers eye opportunities as Philippines base access expands
Those five existing bases have received more than $82 million in U.S. infrastructure investments, according to DOD’s announcement Feb. 1.