Heard On The Hill · 116th Congress
Photos of the week: As RBG is honored, Congress plods on
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Campaigns · 116th Congress
Can firing up the partisan base backfire in Alaska?
[jwp-video n=”1″] Sullivan, though, is a different animal.
Congress · 116th Congress
Air Force, SpaceX mum about sky-high rocket costs
And ULA won in 2018 nearly $1 billion from the Air Force to develop its Vulcan rocket. SpaceX, too, had competed for such backing but lost.
Policy · 116th Congress
Trump contradicts CDC, pledging 100 million vaccines in 2020
State public health departments have received just a few million dollars for COVID-19 vaccine distribution — sometimes less than $1 million — while some states are still waiting on word from the
Campaigns · 116th Congress
What to watch in New Hampshire, Rhode Island primaries this week
1. Will Trump’s voters do as he says?
Congress · 116th Congress
At Gettysburg, worry over preserving history without sugarcoating
[jwp-video n=”1″] After protesters near the White House tried to topple a statue of Andrew Jackson, a president who owned slaves, Trump signed an executive order in June that directed law enforcement
Heard On The Hill · 116th Congress
Photos of the week ending July 31, 2020
Park Police, testifies Tuesday before the House Natural Resources Committee on the June 1 confrontation between officers and protesters at Lafayette Square near the White House.
Congress · 116th Congress
House votes to end military ban on transgender troops
[jwp-video n=”1″] Among the amendments adopted is another by Speier that would allocate $1 million to ensure surveillance systems are operational at certain Army facilities.
Congress · 116th Congress
House would overturn Trump’s transgender ban in military
[jwp-video n=”1″] Peter Perkowski, the group’s legal and policy director, acknowledged in an interview that convincing the Senate to overturn the ban could prove difficult.
Congress · 116th Congress
GAO: Higher nuke budgets won’t add much capability
sought $15.6 billion of that total just for nuclear weapons — as opposed to nonproliferation and other programs — but the House bill would allocate $13.7 billion for that purpose, still also more than $1
Policy · 116th Congress
Trump team’s case for new nuke cites risks in current arsenal
The decision on whether to design and build the W93 is part of a larger debate about a planned $1 trillion upgrade of the U.S. nuclear arsenal of aircraft, subs, missiles, bombs and warheads.
Congress · 116th Congress
Senate uses pandemic bill to fill accounts raided for Trump’s border wall
Billions of dollars included in Senate Republicans’ proposed $1 trillion installment of coronavirus emergency relief funding would restore money for military hardware that was redirected to pay for President
Congress · 116th Congress
Guard officer: Lafayette Square police tactics ‘disturbing’
[jwp-video n=”1″] The Interior Department’s inspector general is investigating the U.S.
Opinion · 116th Congress
Stop saving businesses and start saving schools
[jwp-video n=”1″] Schools first The next round of COVID-19 relief funding that the Senate will debate this week has to put schools in the front of the line for funding, not the back.
Congress · 116th Congress
Pandemic relief package would become weapons bazaar
Senate Republicans have laced their roughly $1 trillion coronavirus relief package with at least $7 billion for weapons, most of which are built by leading contractors that contribute heavily to congressional
Opinion · 116th Congress
Rebel with a lost cause
[jwp-video n=”1″] Indeed, Trump ended his screed against Warren’s language with this: “Hopefully our great Republican Senators won’t fall for this!”
Congress · 116th Congress
Congress pays respects to ‘revered and beloved’ John Lewis in a Rotunda memorial service like no other
[jwp-video n=”1″] “Here in Congress, John was revered and beloved on both sides of the aisle, on both sides of the Capitol,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.
Congress · 116th Congress
Mother pushes Congress for change after son’s ‘preventable’ death in military accident
A July 1 report released by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service found that between 2006 and 2018, 32 percent of active-duty military deaths were the result of training accidents.
Congress · 116th Congress
Confederate statues targeted for removal in series of House bills
[jwp-video n=”1″] Also at Tuesday’s hearing of the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands, Rep. A.
Congress · 116th Congress
Senate chooses minimal new restrictions on weapons for cops
[jwp-video n=”1″] The Senate, after falling short of the votes needed to adopt Schatz’s amendment, then approved an alternative amendment on the Section 1033 program by James M.