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[jwp-video n=”1″] Wasserman Schultz released a set of proposals to overhaul the panel’s operations that have won plaudits, including on setting aside funds for minority and underserved communities
[jwp-video n=”1″] How bad depends to some extent on what future presidents choose to do, Somin said, as well as the outcome of related challenges to Trump actions in lower courts centered on
[jwp-video n=”1″] Advocates for the legislation say it would help correct years of policy that resulted in mass criminalization and incarceration that disproportionately affected minority populations
Corrected, Dec. 1 | Beneficiaries of more than $1.4 trillion in annual federal funding will find out this week who will be steering the ship as Appropriations Committee chairwoman for the 117th Congress
Despite Republican opposition, Congress has approved more than $1 billion in federal grants to be administered by the Election Assistance Commission since the 2016 elections.
The compromise forged between the leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations committees sets spending allocations for the dozen bills that fund federal agencies for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.
[jwp-video n=”1″] The Senate’s draft fiscal 2021 Homeland Security bill would provide the requested $2 billion.
Overall nondefense accounts would see increases greater than 2 percent on average for the budget year that began Oct. 1, as opposed to a less than 0.5 percent boost without the veterans health care carve-out
[jwp-video n=”1″] Hoyer said he’s optimistic that both Republicans and Democrats will participate in the process if earmarks come back into the picture.
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Negotiators, however, may be making better progress on an omnibus spending package for the current fiscal year that began Oct. 1. Current stopgap funding is set to run dry on Dec. 11.
[jwp-video n=”1″] The two chambers’ Pentagon spending bills are both generous with Navy shipbuilding programs, albeit in different ways.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Paul M. Krawzak, David Lerman and Lindsey McPherson contributed to this report.
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[jwp-video n=”1″] “It’s a roll of the dice” on where Trump will come down on spending bills and COVID-19 aid, according to a House Republican lawmaker who spoke on condition of anonymity to
Lafayette Square Resistance to body cameras from the USPP has come under scrutiny after USPP officers, joined by federal and state police agencies, aggressively cleared Lafayette Square on June 1,
[jwp-video n=”1″] She said seeing women be successful in getting elected, but not sharing the same philosophies or policy positions, led GOP women to say, “Maybe I should try.”
[jwp-video n=”1″] The Homeland Security bill was scheduled to go to the floor in a package with five other bills but was pulled at the last minute after progressive and moderate Democrats expressed
[jwp-video n=”1″] If the parties can’t agree during a lame-duck session over the next several weeks, Democrats will need to pass a bill in January, and the $2.4 trillion measure, or perhaps
McConnell made clear back in July that $1 trillion was his ceiling, and they’ll likely end up closer to that instead of the $2 trillion-plus Pelosi wants.