Congress · 117th Congress
Groups launch last-ditch effort against drug pricing changes
It recently announced a $1 million ad buy to run on D.C.-area cable channels from July 1 through Aug. 5.
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Congress · 117th Congress
Senate Democrats make their move on fiscal 2023 appropriations
The bills, which were drafted without a bipartisan agreement on funding levels, amount to a wish list of $1.67 trillion in discretionary spending for fiscal 2023, which begins Oct. 1.
Congress · 117th Congress
Manchin: Deal’s tax increases won’t hurt businesses, raise prices
“Enough’s enough for the one-tenth of 1 percent of the wealthiest people in the country having an advantage. So I’m hoping everybody’s OK.”
Congress · 117th Congress
‘Chips and science’ bill on way to Biden’s desk
One of the big concessions to the House that senators did acknowledge was the authorization of a $1 billion pilot program for the Commerce Department to provide grants to help persistently distressed
Congress · 117th Congress
Lobbying ramps up around new health agency headquarters
Congress officially enacted ARPA-H with $1 billion in the fiscal 2022 omnibus spending package, but competing bills in the House and Senate would fill in the details of how the agency would operate, how
Congress · 117th Congress
Health care budget bill to face open-ended ‘vote-a-rama’
The original fiscal 2022 budget resolution provided “instructions” to the Senate Finance panel that its part of the bill must lower deficits by at least $1 billion over a decade.
Congress · 117th Congress
Semiconductor, science bill passes Senate, heads to House
The $11 billion Commerce Department authorization, all of which is on top of baseline funding, includes $10 billion for regional technology hubs and $1 billion for a pilot program to provide economic
Congress · 117th Congress
How the ‘chips-plus’ bill grew by nearly 1,000 pages
House Democrats, meanwhile, secured the inclusion of $1 billion in authorizing funds for the Commerce Department to launch a pilot program that would provide grants to help persistently distressed
Congress · 117th Congress
House Democrats add child nutrition to legislative menu
If approved, the changes would take effect after July 1, 2023.
Policy · 117th Congress
How ‘Build Back Better’ started, and how it’s going: a timeline
Oct. 1, 2021: Biden told House Democrats the budget package would need to be scaled down from $3.5 trillion to around $2 trillion as he asked them to hold off voting on the infrastructure bill until
Policy · 117th Congress
Army tells House panel of enormous personnel shortfalls
The survey also showed that 1 in 6 military families has trouble feeding its members — a problem that pre-dated both the pandemic and the recent surge of inflation but that has not gone away.
Congress · 117th Congress
NDAA a magnet for far-reaching amendments
Although Congress passed a law in 2010 that reduced statutory penalties for crack cocaine offenses to produce an 18-to-1 crack-to-powder ratio for length of sentences — down from 100-to-1 from 1986
Congress · 117th Congress
Senate NDAA has $13 billion extra for defense inflation
Defense inflation goes by a different measure, and it is not known what prices will be like for the Pentagon from Oct. 1, 2022, through Sept. 30, 2023, the time period covered by the legislation.
Congress · 117th Congress
House NDAA would further limit Pentagon officials’ stock ownership
The National Defense Authorization Act that the House passed Thursday includes an amendment that would expand the covered companies to comprise those that earned $1 billion or more in revenue from
Congress · 117th Congress
House easily passes NDAA
The massive piece of legislation would authorize $1 billion in new military aid for Ukraine and force the Biden administration to keep developing a nuclear cruise missile that officials had wanted
Congress · 117th Congress
Pentagon: Hill added $58 billion to current defense budget
These include, for example, money to help Ukraine fight Russia and just over $1 billion for the Red Hill fuel storage facility in Hawaii, much of which was allotted to deal with fuel leaks into local
Policy · 117th Congress
National 988 crisis hotline readied for rollout
Delphin-Rittmon, assistant Health and Human Services secretary for mental health and substance use, said funding from the 2021 COVID-19 relief law allowed the lifeline, still at 1-800-273-TALK, to answer
Congress · 117th Congress
Reconciliation talks complicated by ‘SALT’ tax hurdle
Their negotiations have focused on a package that would raise roughly $1 trillion in revenue, with half to offset spending initiatives on climate and potentially health care and the other half for deficit
Policy · 117th Congress
Park Police radio channels unrecorded for years, watchdog says
Park Police has been under public scrutiny since some of its officers along with officers from other law enforcement agencies violently cleared largely peaceful protesters from Lafayette Park on June 1,
Policy · 117th Congress
New Interior offshore drilling plan draws mixed reviews
President Joe Biden proposed a slate of options in late June he said could lower gasoline prices by as much as $1 per gallon.