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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

Congress · 117th Congress

Congress cuts humanitarian spending despite billions for Ukraine

supplemental humanitarian funding for Ukraine is excluded, the baseline fiscal 2022 spending level for humanitarian accounts covered by the State-Foreign Operations title comes in at $6.8 billion — a $1

Congress · 117th Congress

Partisan skirmishes threaten swift omnibus timetable

Hoyer said he hopes that debate over supplemental aid won’t slow consideration of the omnibus, which is already five months overdue from the Oct. 1 start of fiscal 2022.

Opinion · 117th Congress

Biden always behind the curve

In this week’s new Gallup Poll, taken Feb. 1-17, Biden’s job approval came in at 41 percent approve to 55 percent disapprove.

Congress · 117th Congress

Senate Democrats plot March legislative push on inflation

A group of Democrats introduced a bill last week to cut the excise tax on gasoline produced, imported or sold from 18.4 cents per gallon to zero until Jan. 1, 2023.

Campaigns · 117th Congress

Senate ratings show three Democrats in toss-up races

That doesn’t bode well for the party this year when Biden’s victory in five of the battleground states was by less than 2.5 points, including three by less than 1 point. 

Congress · 117th Congress

Democrats push climate proposals amid internal fights

“I would rather approach it from an ‘it makes no sense for me from a business standpoint to run diesel engines anymore, because there’s an electric engine sitting there that No. 1 I don’t go deaf

Opinion · 117th Congress

Time for Biden to get out of the Build Back Better bubble

An Oct. 1-4 Quinnipiac poll put his overall job approval rating among registered voters at 40 percent approve to 53 percent disapprove, and his approval among all adults was only 38 percent. 

Congress · 117th Congress

Democrats, Republicans agree to short-term debt limit increase

benefits scheduled for Oct. 20 could be delayed by five days.Food stamp benefits due Oct. 25 would be delayed by a week.Federal employee salaries due to be paid Oct. 29 could be postponed by 11 days.Nov. 1

Policy · 117th Congress

Federal courts boost request for judicial reinforcements

That includes concerns about which president would pick those judges, the roughly $1 million annual cost each new judgeship would bring, and whether any measure should make bigger changes, particularly

Congress · 117th Congress

Infrastructure vote suspense prompts worries about highway bill

DeFazio’s bill to reauthorize spending for surface transportation, as well as drinking water and wastewater projects, passed the House on July 1, but Senate negotiators crafting the bipartisan infrastructure

Policy · 117th Congress

Ethiopia violence stokes alarm in Washington about civil war

Some 1 million people in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray area are experiencing famine-like conditions, and an estimated 5.2 million of the region’s 6 million people need some form of humanitarian aid,

Congress · 117th Congress

Foreign aid for Afghanistan in flux after Taliban takeover

“We need Congress and the White House to be working with us right now on what happens Sept. 1 and forward,” said Rita Sharma, vice president of U.S. programs and policy advocacy at CARE, a major