Policy · 117th Congress
Biden to announce summer sales of 15 percent ethanol fuel blend
Strategic Petroleum Reserve every day for 180 days and a separate 30 million-barrel sale, announced March 1.
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Congress · 117th Congress
House appropriators plan June markups on fiscal 2023 bills
expected to meet shortly after the two-week recess this month to begin discussions aimed at reaching a bipartisan agreement on overall discretionary spending levels for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.
Congress · 117th Congress
House passes $55B aid package for restaurants, other businesses
would tack on another $13 billion for small businesses that suffered revenue losses of at least 40 percent during the pandemic, without regard to what industries they operate in, with grants capped at $1
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
Congress · 117th Congress
Qualified blind trust proposal receives chilled reception at congressional stock hearing
“No. 1, you know what you put in, so it’s not really blind. No. 2, apparently it’s very bureaucratic and expensive.
Policy · 117th Congress
Investors keep up diversity pressure after California law tossed
Companies have until Sept. 1 to comply.
Campaigns · 117th Congress
Ratings show South Carolina’s competitive races are limited to June primary
And Republicans are likely to retain their 6-to-1 edge in the House delegation for another decade. This year, Republicans need a net gain of five seats for the majority.
Congress · 117th Congress
Obama and Biden reunite to tout signature health care law
The proposed rule would close the family glitch loophole beginning Jan. 1, 2023. Lawmakers and advocates have pushed the administration to act on the family glitch for some time.
Congress · 117th Congress
Biden budget’s omission of tax cut renewals leaves deficit hole
President Joe Biden made deficit reduction a top priority in his election year budget request, promising $1 trillion in savings over the next decade.
Congress · 117th Congress
Senate reaches deal on $10 billion in COVID-19 spending
Senators left town last week undecided on whether to use $1 billion of the $10 billion for international aid to help increase the global vaccination rate or to spend it all on domestic needs.
Heard On The Hill · 117th Congress
Photos of the week ending April 1, 2022
The April Fools’ Day edition of photos of the week is no joke, with shared beer nuts, two Scotts on one train and a farewell to Don Young.
Congress · 117th Congress
House readies relief package for restaurants, other industries
The negotiators couldn’t agree on enough offsets for appropriating another $5 billion in foreign assistance, but they were debating whether to take approximately $1 billion from the domestic funds
Congress · 117th Congress
Pelosi dismisses gas tax hiatus, says consumers wouldn’t benefit
a group of six Senate Democrats — four seeking reelection — who last month introduced a bill to cut the excise tax on gasoline produced, imported or sold from 18.4 cents per gallon to zero until Jan. 1,
Campaigns · 117th Congress
Race ratings show Republicans positioned for pickups in Pennsylvania
Biden won the old 7th by 5 points but would have won the new 7th by less than 1 point.
Heard On The Hill · 117th Congress
John Amara Walters had an ‘infectious laugh.’ Now his memory inspires interns
Sickle cell disease disproportionately affects African Americans, occurring among 1 out of every 365 African American births.
Congress · 117th Congress
Senate close to COVID-19 aid deal; global funds in question
But Romney said negotiators were still debating whether to take $1 billion of the $10 billion slated for HHS and instead give that to the United States Agency for International Development for foreign
Opinion · 117th Congress
Can we just leave God out of it?
Lindsey Graham asked me to rate mine on a scale of 1 to 10, as he did Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, I would have to, as she did, refuse.
Heard On The Hill · 117th Congress
They work in the halls of power. But Senate dining workers are ‘still struggling’
The company retaliated against striking workers, the National Labor Relations Board said, and a separate probe found it owed over $1 million in back pay.
Policy · 117th Congress
Government prepares for possible spike in migration
Since the start of fiscal 2022 on Oct. 1, government data shows border officials have recorded more than 900,000 encounters with migrants, a 99 percent increase from the same time frame in fiscal
Opinion · 117th Congress
The era of laissez-faire COVID-19 prevention
Only amid the crazed partisanship of the moment would anyone consider filibustering a modest appropriation to deal with a deadly virus that has killed almost 1 million Americans in just two years.