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House earmarks totaled $3.7 billion, or about 0.25 percent of the 1 percent cap Democratic leaders placed on “congressionally directed spending” for the upcoming fiscal year.
The net effect could be somewhere in the ballpark of $500 billion to $1 trillion in paper deficits, which would mean a still-hefty $2.5 trillion to $3 trillion worth of necessary offsets for the
On June 1, Sopko sent lawmakers and Biden administration officials a white paper requesting, among other things, that the U.S. government “strictly condition” future aid to Afghanistan on his team
House Armed Services subcommittees plan to mark up their portions of the NDAA this week, though the full committee does not plan to finish its work until Sept. 1. Rep.
Pelosi announced her eight choices on July 1. One of them was Wyoming Rep.
If the House and Senate cannot agree to all dozen full-year spending measures before the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1, they’ll likely pass a short-term spending bill that would extend current spending
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.
[jwp-video n=”1″] It is this apparent bias that members hope a revamped military justice system will fix.
[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
[jwp-video n=”1″] Georgia will also host one of the most interesting gubernatorial races in the country as GOP Gov.
The Rules Committee is meeting at 1 p.m.
“While the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 and First Step Act of 2018 brought us a long way toward eradicating the vestiges of the 100-to-1 crack-to-powder disparity, some people have been left behind
[jwp-video n=”1″] ‘Defense of the homeland’ A 2011 judicial decision made it harder for the Defense Department to withhold certain unclassified information that officials believe is important
But Pelosi and other Democrats say it is not a suitable swap for the sweeping, 800-plus-page package, known as the For the People Act and dubbed HR 1 in the House and S 1 in the Senate.
[jwp-video n=”1″] In addition, she wrote that a revised budget resolution with additional reconciliation instructions can’t be automatically discharged to the floor in the absence of a Senate
Leahy, D-Vt., placed new transparency requirements and guardrails on the process when they opted to end the ban this year: The total amount of earmarks will be capped at 1 percent of discretionary funding
[jwp-video n=”1″] On May 23, Senate Armed Services Chairman Jack Reed issued a statement saying he plans to include in the fiscal 2022 defense authorization bill a provision moving to independent
The rate would steadily increase for pay ratios up to 500-to-1 or higher.
[jwp-video n=”1″] What’s more, the measure now enjoys, for the first time, the support of a majority of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which has traditionally fought the proposal.
[jwp-video n=”1″] Most of those waivers expire once officials end the public health emergency, which gives Congress a limited window to act.