Congress · 117th Congress
Garret Graves wants to make a point with his $1 billion earmark
Garret Graves says the nearly $1 billion earmark he requested for a bridge in his Louisiana congressional district is hardly a bridge to nowhere.
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Congress · 117th Congress
$1.9B Capitol security bill passes House; bipartisan talks likely
“It’s hard to imagine that anything we were going to do would happen earlier than Oct. 1,” Blunt said, raising the prospect of Capitol security funds getting lumped in with the end-of-fiscal year
Campaigns · 117th Congress
At the Races: Biden, Trump voters agree?
Political money push: End Citizens United and Let America Vote Action Fund dropped a $1 million digital ad buy this week in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, New Hampshire and West Virginia to urge senators
Policy · 117th Congress
Investors object to CEO pay in judgment on pandemic response
The rate would steadily increase for pay ratios up to 500-to-1 or higher.
Congress · 117th Congress
Divide over scope of military’s extremism problem impedes culture, policy changes
“I don’t think we should have had 1 percent of the people storming the U.S. Capitol having served in the military.
Congress · 117th Congress
Carper sets ‘aggressive’ timeline for marking up Senate highway bill
The GOP bill would also require the Transportation Department to establish a national VMT implementation pilot program for government-owned vehicles by Oct. 1, 2026.
Heard On The Hill · 117th Congress
Raphael Warnock, the ‘senator reverend,’ keeps preaching most Sundays
[jwp-video n=”1″] A balancing act Warnock, who styles himself as Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock on his official Senate website, has consistently sought to inhabit the common language of faith
Policy · 117th Congress
Children face added mental health struggles during pandemic
More than 1 in 5 of the parents surveyed had trouble finding an appointment with a mental health practitioner such as a psychiatrist or social worker.
Policy · 117th Congress
Ransomware wreaks havoc by mimicking Tupperware parties of old
[jwp-video n=”1″] Security researchers studying ransomware attacks and criminal gangs say the operations are mimicking multilevel marketing programs, the most well-known of which is the Tupperware
Congress · 117th Congress
Democrats push tax hikes on wealthy over infrastructure ‘user fees’
Ron Kind, D-Wis., said his constituents weren’t troubled by Biden’s proposals to raise taxes on the top 1 percent of households and corporations, which would be an easier sell than increasing gasoline
Campaigns · 117th Congress
Crist bid for governor opens up competitive seat on Florida’s Gulf Coast
Republicans won the last gubernatorial and Senate elections in the state by less than 1 percentage point. Republicans and Democrats draw opposite conclusions from these trends.
Policy · 117th Congress
Expect more wildfires this year. And expect lawmakers to disagree about them
[jwp-video n=”1″] “These days it seems as if the fire season is the entire year,” Haaland noted.
Congress · 117th Congress
Cheney promises to fight on, while McCarthy covets the speakership
[jwp-video n=”1″] Rather, Cheney said she’d seek reelection in Wyoming next year and then, she implied, the presidency, if that’s what it would take to defeat Trump in 2024.
Congress · 117th Congress
Capitol Police faced equipment shortage during Jan. 6 attack
[jwp-video n=”1″] Ill-fitting helmets The four CDU hard squads, equipped with riot gear, had issues of their own.
Heard On The Hill · 117th Congress
Photos of the week ending May 14, 2021
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Congress · 117th Congress
Elise Stefanik ascends to House GOP No. 3 after Cheney ouster
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Congress · 117th Congress
Graham wants strings attached to debt limit bill
It would have kept lawmaker salaries on ice while the federal government was operating under a stopgap funding bill, in the absence of regular appropriations bills that are ordinarily due Oct. 1 each year
Congress · 117th Congress
Gillibrand military sexual assault bill gets supermajority status
[jwp-video n=”1″] What’s more, the measure now enjoys, for the first time, the support of a majority of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which has traditionally fought the proposal.
Policy · 117th Congress
Congress must pass cyber notification law, top CISA official says
[jwp-video n=”1″] The question of what information private companies that suffer a cyberattack share with CISA and other government agencies was highlighted this week when Colonial Pipeline,
Heard On The Hill · 117th Congress
We started a podcast about ‘political theater.’ Then the term went through the wringer
Brandon Wetherbee, host of “You, Me, Them, Everybody” (Episode 1, January 2018) Gary Hart is driven out in 1987, not because the public decides, we will not have a president who’s had an affair.