Policy · 114th Congress
Senate Makes First Move on Zika Emergency Funding
“We must act before July 1. I don’t mean start it July 1 – complete it,” she added. “We are in a race against the clock.
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Video · 114th Congress
Best of ‘Office Space’
[jwp-video n=”1″] Who knew Rep. Joe L. Barton of Texas knew so much about Dr Pepper?
Politics · 114th Congress
Zika Funding Compromise Proves Elusive So Far
Such a massive omnibus measure might not hit the president’s desk before the third month of the new fiscal year which begins Oct. 1.
Zika Funding Fight Reignites
Rogers was referring to fiscal years 2016, which is more than half over, and fiscal 2017, which begins Oct. 1.
Ryan Dons Hard Hat as Congress Sinks
[jwp-video n=”1″] It’s no wonder Speaker Paul D. Ryan keeps saying he won’t run for president : Just 11 percent of the public approves of the job Congress is doing.
House and Senate Charge Ahead on 2017 Spending Bills
House subcommittee markups of fiscal 2017 Energy-Water and Agriculture appropriations measures are also scheduled on Wednesday: Energy-Water will be at 1:30 p.m. and Agriculture at 4 p.m.
Capitol Police: A Spending Force
The police are consuming $1 out of every $12 that Congress is spending on itself and its support agencies in fiscal 2016. In the first half of the 1990s, the ratio was $1 in $35.
Heard On The Hill · 114th Congress
Lawmakers’ Personal Stories Featured in Alzheimer’s Forum
By 2050, the senator said, costs could be more than $1 trillion. Another senator, Roy Blunt, R-Mo., spoke at the forum’s Tuesday night’s dinner.
Policy · 114th Congress
Obama to Congress: End ‘Insidious’ Corporate Tax Inversions
Obama Looks to Congress on Panama Papers [jwp-video n=”1″] “Only Congress can close it for good,” Obama said, adding Congress should “give tax breaks to working families” rather than
Policy · 114th Congress
Obama Takes Uphill Supreme Court Battle to Chicago
Everything You Need to Know About the Supreme Court Battle [jwp-video n=”1″] White House officials said they see a “sea change” among Senate Republicans about the nomination, noting
Policy · 114th Congress
Meetings but no Movement on Garland Nomination
Everything You Need to Know About the Supreme Court Battle [jwp-video n=”1″] He is to meet Wednesday with a trio of Judiciary Committee Democrats: Richard J.
Video · 114th Congress
Bill Nelson Asks Rhetorical Questions
[jwp-video n=”1″] Heard on the Hill pays tribute to the unmatched oratory skills of Sen. Bill Nelson.
Policy · 114th Congress
A Different Kind of Washington Gridlock
Evans also made a plea for $1 billion in additional funding for Metro, which would more than double what it has allocated for infrastructure costs in its fiscal 2017 budget to support Metrobus,
Video · 114th Congress
Chicago Politicians Talk Chicago Pizza
[jwp-video n=”1″] Illinois Republicans Peter Roskam and Randy Hutlgren chat with Roll Call about what makes Chicago pizza unique while chowing down on the newest Chicago-style pie in
Policy · 114th Congress
Obama: Opioid Treatment Too Scant, ‘Underresourced’
That legislation, which passed 94-1, also would give the Justice Department additional tools to combat drug trafficking. Partisan squabbling could sink the Senate’s measure.
Policy · 114th Congress
States Highlight Congressional Power in Immigration Case
Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans, in a 2-1 decision in November, declined to lift an injunction issued in that lawsuit by U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen.
Policy · 114th Congress
Obama to Stump for Anti-Heroin Plan as GOP Resists
That legislation, which passed 94-1, also would give the Justice Department additional tools to combat drug trafficking.
Police Shoot, Wound Man at US Capitol
[jwp-video n=”1″] D.C. Police characterized the incident at the sprawling visitor’s center underneath the east side of the Capitol as isolated with no threat to the general public.
Video · 114th Congress
Rosie the Riveter Gets Her Due in Washington
[jwp-video n=”1″] A lifetime after the slogan “We can do it,” became the memory, “We did do it,” 30 of the thousands of ‘Rosie the Riveters’ — American women who contributed to the war
Opinion · 114th Congress
Congress Needs More and Better-Paid Staff
By my count, for every $1 spent on lobbying by public interest groups and labor unions combined, businesses and business associations spend $34 .