Health deadlines pile up as Congress adjourns for August
The Finance Committee, meanwhile, approved a draft bill that would address restrictions and oversight of pharmacy benefit managers by a vote of 26-1.
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Republicans hoover up earmarks in House spending bills
No. 1 on the list is Energy-Water Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tenn., who secured $273.3 million, mostly for the Army Corps of Engineers’ Chickamauga Lock project in Chattanooga
Biden issues veto threats on House GOP-drafted spending bills
The Senate bill would provide more for military construction and housing — including $1 billion more for earmarks — than the House version.
House, Senate majorities putting their stamps on earmarks
While spending in those two bills would grow by close to 1 percent combined from what the Senate panel released initially last year, the new Senate Appropriations leadership this year would cut earmarked
Vilsack touts Biden’s biofuel support as he details new aid
Vilsack said another $450 million in grants will be awarded in $90 million tranches each quarter, with application periods starting July 1, 2023, and going through Sept. 30, 2024.
Battle over parties’ share of earmarks erupts in House panel
Long-awaited return DeLauro brought back earmarks in the last Congress after a decadelong absence with renewed transparency rules, limiting earmark funding to no more than 1 percent of the budget and requiring
Granger sets fiscal 2024 funding targets below debt limit deal
That figure is 1 percent below a continuing resolution at fiscal 2023 levels.
New food stamp requirements test states and USDA
The public health emergency declaration ended in May and the clock for those recipients starts ticking again for work requirements and SNAP benefits on July 1.
Meet the House members who voted against the debt limit dealÂ
A bipartisan bill to suspend the debt limit through Jan. 1, 2025, and cut spending by at least $1.5 trillion passed the House with a coalition of Republican and Democratic votes built from the center out
Debt limit deal appears close as negotiators keep working
While the deadline shift from June 1 to June 5 doesn’t change negotiators’ urgency, it could help them get a bill through both chambers of Congress before the "x date."
Supreme Court ruling will force changes to ‘waters of US’ rule
However, the justices were divided 5-4 when determining a new test to replace ones put forward in 2006 by Justices Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia in the 4-1-4 ruling on Rapanos v. United States.
Biden, McCarthy will attempt to salvage debt limit deal
Yellen warned again Sunday that federal borrowing authority could run dry as early as June 1, leaving the government unable to pay all its bills.
Earmarks increase in popularity, slightly, among GOP senators
However, the odds of disappointment are much greater for senators: appropriations leaders in both chambers have agreed to cap total earmarked dollars at 1 percent of overall discretionary spending.
Biden, Agriculture committee leaders to discuss farm bill goals
Opponents say that expanding the age limit could put up to 1 million people at risk of losing food aid.Â
Energy tax credits a big test for GOP vote counters on debt bill
Illinois was No. 1 in soybeans and No. 2 in corn.
Lawmakers: Expand federal aid for hungry troops
The legislative moves come as Pentagon figures show some 286,800 personnel in the active-duty force, or nearly 1 in 4 military servicemembers, experience "low food security."
As budget cuts loom, group warns of effects on House staff pay
Individual MRA authorizations were cut significantly between 2010 and 2013 and were either flat-funded or received 1 percent boosts between 2013 and 2017, according to the Congressional Research Service
Gap in data complicates legislation to keep China off US farms
Despite such well-publicized purchases, Chinese buyers, with 383,935 acres, hold less than 1 percent of foreign-owned U.S. farm, forest, pasture and nonagricultural land, the Farm Service Agency said in
White House blueprint would raise taxes, boost spending
The plan calls for imposing a 25 percent minimum tax on the wealthiest 0.01 percent of households, quadrupling a 1 percent surcharge on corporate stock buybacks, restoring the top marginal income tax rate
House GOP appropriators unveil tighter earmark rules
But the Senate’s new earmark guidelines allow for a continuation of the current 1 percent cap on overall earmarked funds, so the final number for home-state projects — if there’s an eventual fiscal 2024