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Senate sets NDAA markups for mid-July
The full panel will consider the bill on Sept. 1. Unlike most of their Senate counterparts, the House panels tend to conduct their markups in open session.
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GOP unity on spending bills holding, despite earmarks galore
Diaz-Balart requested $12 million in earmarks and so far gotten two — $1 million for a drinking water project in Miami-Dade County and $750,000 for a sewer project in the same area.
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Senate appropriations earmark requests start rolling in
The Senate has officially kicked off its process for inserting “congressionally directed spending” into appropriations bills for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1, with almost all Democrats but only 15 Republicans
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House Democrats to skip budget markup, wait for Senate
Under budget law, if the Senate Budget panel hasn’t marked up a budget by April 1, any senator can introduce a budget on the floor of that chamber.
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Donald Rumsfeld, a DC legend in war and peace, dead at 88
He oversaw the transition to an all-volunteer military and led the development of the B-1 bomber and other weapons. America’s foes would later become more shadowy and harder to find.
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Spending panel releases trial balloon on raising member pay
Overall, the spending bill includes $1 million for the feasibility study on combating communicable diseases within the Capitol.
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Biden plan gives moderate Democrats sticker shock
Peters supports the bipartisan compromise that Romney helped broker, calling the $1 trillion figure “historic.” “Five years ago, we would have never dreamed of numbers like that,” he said.
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Earmark requests grow as House Appropriations panels begin work
.; $1.5 million for renovations to research facilities at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque; and $1 million for the Albuquerque Police Department to establish a trauma recovery center for survivors
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Yarmuth: House budget blueprint won’t veer too far from Senate’s
The focus for those last two weeks of the month is likely to be fiscal 2022 appropriations and avoiding a partial government shutdown when current-year funds lapse on Oct. 1, he said.
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Senate voting and ethics overhaul stalls, but Democrats united in vote
[jwp-video n=”1″] “This is a battle for the soul of America,” Schumer said.
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Military brass resists big changes to prosecution decisions
The commanders instead refer allegations about such crimes to the 1 percent of senior officers who are empowered to make such decisions.
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Democrats promise to do it all despite dissension in the ranks
[jwp-video n=”1″] But if Schumer can pass the more ambitious provisions in his 50-50 Senate, and Jeffries in a House with just a nine-vote Democratic majority, their pursuit of the bipartisan
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Capitol Police could run out of funds over August recess
The association also warned of “deep cuts” if not reimbursed before Aug. 1. Defense Secretary Lloyd J.
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Senators running out of patience on mask mandate for travelers
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House passes repeal of 2002 military authorization for Iraq war
[jwp-video n=”1″] “The Bush administration misled the American people by saying there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, that Iraq posed an imminent threat and by drawing a false connection
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House Republicans, Yellen spar over Biden tax proposals
Several Republicans mentioned opposition to Biden’s proposal to eliminate stepped-up basis on assets above $1 million, saying it doesn’t do enough to protect family farms and small businesses even
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Showdown over border wall spending reaches Supreme Court
[jwp-video n=”1″] In September, a panel of the U.S.
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Capitol Police teams were lacking in weapons certifications
[jwp-video n=”1″] Hundreds of investigations The Jan. 6 insurrection also played out Tuesday in another House hearing room, where FBI Director Christoper Wray told the Oversight Committee that
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Hill staffers expect infrastructure bill to pass, but little else
Both Republicans and Democrats agreed that Congress will pass an infrastructure bill, and most of them expect it will be close to the $1 trillion plan Biden offered to the Republicans’ negotiator
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House Democrats propose $1.5 trillion spending ceiling
The Rules Committee is meeting at 1 p.m.