Debt limit package passes House, heads to Senate
The bill would suspend the debt limit until Jan. 1, 2025, pushing it past the November 2024 elections. The debt limit was last raised in December 2021 to $31.4 trillion.
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House Republicans paint DC as hellish in move to strike another city bill
In a quarrelsome House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing titled "Overdue Oversight of the Capital City: Part 1," Republicans such as Georgia Rep.
McCarthy says Iraq AUMFs will first go to House committee
It was rejected in a 1-20 vote.
Policy · 117th Congress
Post-pandemic, CDC faces ‘uphill battle’ for backing in new Congress
The U.S. reported its first case of mpox on May 17 and the agency had its vaccination strategy in place by June 28, but it took until Sept. 1 for the agency to access data on how the vaccination had been
Policy · 117th Congress
Fauci to step down in December
The COVID-19 pandemic turned Fauci into a politically polarizing figure as the virus shut down the world and upended normal daily life, claiming more than 1 million lives.
Congress · 117th Congress
Democrats confident about budget vote as GOP plans amendments
Rubio also said he’ll offer an amendment to ensure the reconciliation measure can’t pass ahead of a permitting overhaul Schumer promised Manchin a vote on before Oct. 1.
Policy · 117th Congress
Afghanistan’s fall was inevitable once U.S. left, watchdog finds
The bill provides $4 million for oversight activity by the State Department inspector general, with an additional $1 million for the U.S.
Congress · 117th Congress
Senate unanimously passes Russia trade, embargo bills and House clears them
Under the legislation, the president would have the authority until Jan. 1, 2024, to set by proclamation tariff rates that are higher than the standard rates known as Column 2 for imported products
Heard On The Hill · 117th Congress
Senate holds subdued ‘baby step’ hearing on DC statehood
[jwp-video n=”1″] Soon afterward, the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee came to order for only the second Senate statehood hearing in recent memory.
Heard On The Hill · 117th Congress
People are returning to the Capitol, and not everyone’s wearing a mask
[jwp-video n=”1″] “I don’t wear it in my office, everybody’s been vaccinated,” said Sen. Bill Cassidy, a gastroenterologist by training.
Policy · 117th Congress
Immigration emerges as policy response to slowed US growth
In addition, the agency predicts that by 2030, 1 in 5 U.S. residents will be of retirement age. By 2060, there will be 2.5 working-age adults to every retirement-age adult.
Congress · 117th Congress
Nonprofits unsure about small-business loan access as clock ticks
This expanded group of nonprofits isn’t eligible if they engage in substantial lobbying activities or paid more than $1 million to lobby in 2019, so some of the biggest labor unions would likely be excluded
Congress · 117th Congress
One-tenth of Congress had COVID-19, but cases halted soon after vaccinations
Roughly 1 in 10 members of Congress contracted COVID-19 in the past year since the pandemic significantly changed daily life in the United States and on Capitol Hill.
Congress · 117th Congress
Impeachment trial first: No public view of proceedings as COVID-19 and press access questions remain
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Congress · 117th Congress
Trump conviction unlikely after most GOP senators vote to dismiss impeachment trial
[jwp-video n=”1″] “Will it heal? Will it unify? I think the answer is clearly it will not,” Wisconsin Republican Ron Johnson said Tuesday.
Campaigns · 116th Congress
GOP has outside spending advantage in Georgia runoffs
Below is a roundup of the two dozen outside groups that have each spent $1 million or more since Nov. 3.
Congress · 116th Congress
Trump signs weeklong funding extension to buy time to prep omnibus
[jwp-video n=”1″] Under the House procedural maneuver, adoption of the rule for floor debate on the big spending package would automatically send the new stopgap bill to the Senate, which would
Congress · 116th Congress
Senators clash as panel hears discredited claims of election fraud
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Congress · 116th Congress
Trump signs short-term spending bill, preventing shutdown
The new stopgap law gives lawmakers an extra week to negotiate an omnibus spending package for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. Current funding had been set to expire at midnight Friday.
Heard On The Hill · 116th Congress
Photos of the week ending Dec. 11, 2020
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