Campaigns · 117th Congress
What happened in Tuesday’s elections in seven states
Raja Krishnamoorthi beat back a primary challenge in the 8th District Tuesday from IT consultant Junaid Ahmed, who had raised more than $1 million.
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Congress · 117th Congress
State policy changes intensify in wake of Supreme Court decision
Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood, the Center for Reproductive Rights and others were in court Monday arguing against implementation of Florida’s 15-week abortion ban, scheduled to take effect July 1.
Congress · 117th Congress
Senate Armed Services panel goes big with new defense budget
Last year’s vote was 25-1, with Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., the sole opponent.
Campaigns · 117th Congress
New debate over gun laws will test the gun lobby’s influence
By more than 3-to-1, gun rights groups — including the best-known National Rifle Association, which has filed for bankruptcy and may no longer be the political behemoth it once was — have outspent
Policy · 117th Congress
SCOTUS leak prompts investors to press companies on abortion
recommended to its clients with shares in Walmart to vote for Clean Yield’s resolution on addressing the impact of state laws on employees’ access to reproductive health services at the company’s June 1
Congress · 117th Congress
States, localities await federal help on cybersecurity
The $1.2 trillion infrastructure spending bill enacted last year included $1 billion in grants over four years to state, local, tribal and territorial governments.
Policy · 117th Congress
Doctors, advocates worry end of Roe v. Wade could endanger infertility treatment
There are an estimated 1 million frozen embryos in the U.S., according to The National Embryo Donation Center in Knoxville, Tenn. ‘Scared’ Since a draft decision in the case Dobbs vs.
Congress · 117th Congress
New requests bring military’s ‘unfunded priorities’ above $21 billion
Pentagon brass have asked Congress for nearly $1 billion for anti-missile and cybersecurity programs that are not part of President Joe Biden’s budget request, bringing to more than $21 billion the so-called
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
Policy · 117th Congress
Facing new Superfund taxes, chemical lobby boosted spending
Dow Chemical Co. spent $1.14 million in lobbying last quarter, including on the Superfund taxes, up from $1 million in the final period of 2020.
Congress · 117th Congress
A Groundhog Day fight in Rules Committee over resolutions of inquiry
However, the language, which has been included in committee resolutions for more than 1 1/2 years, limits the use of resolutions of inquiry — a legislative tool to request that the executive branch
Congress · 117th Congress
Charities lobbying to restore expanded tax deduction for giving
Higher limits on corporate giving also lapsed on Jan. 1. The JCT estimated the 2021 extension of those breaks would cost $643 million.
Congress · 117th Congress
House competition bill includes more trade aid for workers
The program reverted to one with fewer benefits and limited to workers in manufacturing on July 1, 2021, after Democrats and Republicans could not agree on an extension.
Congress · 117th Congress
Supreme Court won’t review House COVID-19 proxy voting
The House hammered that point for the justices, using an example of how the proxy-voting process worked on a Nov. 1 vote on a bill to extend federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina
Congress · 117th Congress
GOP would amend defense bill to block immigration settlements
“I’m open to any and all legislative options to ensure that an approximate $1 billion of taxpayer dollars does not go to illegal immigrants,” he said.
Congress · 117th Congress
‘Deem and pass’ rule has bipartisan history
“Rules of this sort contain customary, or ‘boilerplate,’ language, such as: ‘The amendment printed in [section 2 of this resolution or in part 1 of the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying
Congress · 117th Congress
GOP blasts vaccine mandate, and defense contractors are fretting
Raytheon had already issued its own corporate vaccine mandate, but with a Jan. 1 deadline.
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
Pentagon told Biden not to withdraw from Afghanistan
Reached in February 2020, the Trump administration’s deal with the Taliban committed to a complete U.S. withdrawal by May 1, 2021, so long as the Taliban met stipulated conditions.
Policy · 117th Congress
Conservatives take aim at infrastructure bill in Senate
Though up to 17 GOP lawmakers have signaled tentative support for the nearly $1 trillion infrastructure measure being debated in the Senate, conservatives urged on by former President Donald Trump are