Congress · 119th Congress
Earmarks flood spending bills after a year’s hiatus
That measure far outshone the rest, with just under $6 billion in project funding across 3,212 individual projects.
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Congress · 119th Congress
FEMA earmarks threatened by immigration funding standoff
↵↵Cassidy has one earmark in the bill, but it's a big one: $6 million for road drainage improvements for Interstate 20 in Ouachita Parish, which is in the northern part of the state.
Congress · 119th Congress
Trump signs spending bill to end longest government shutdown
"Jack" Smith in his probe of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol would automatically be entitled to big payouts.
Policy · 118th Congress
With EV batteries in demand, some in GOP say ‘no’ to China
China sold 6 million to 7 million electric vehicles last year, an uptick from 2021, and at least a quarter of EV sales worldwide are in China, Nakano said.
Congress · 117th Congress
VA health care funds, military vaccine rule gum up omnibus talks
Take out veterans health care, which eats up a big chunk at $119 billion — 22 percent more than last year — and the remainder of nondefense spending would rise just 6 percent, barely keeping pace
Policy · 117th Congress
Supreme Court starts new term in political spotlight, tilted right
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the court as the nation’s first Black woman justice, but experts do not believe her addition to the court this term will temper the momentum of the 6-3 conservative
Policy · 117th Congress
Census missed housing units in rural, Native American areas
Corrected 6:20 p.m. | The 2020 census missed the most housing units on Native American reservations and in other rural areas, according to the latest Census Bureau report released Tuesday.
Congress · 117th Congress
Roe reversal spurs worries about miscarriage care
Jackson Women’s Health Organization have come in rapid succession: A doctor in South Dakota accused of inducing an abortion could be guilty of a Class 6 felony punishable by two years in prison.
Policy · 117th Congress
Better watch your speed, watchdog and others tell a flush Amtrak
April 6, referring to a stretch of tracks that they hope to use to bring passenger service to the Gulf Coast.
Congress · 117th Congress
In the game of earmarks, Shelby has no peers
Shelby’s solo requests alone account for 6 percent of total earmarks in the fiscal 2022 omnibus.
Congress · 117th Congress
Defense spending deal bristles with weapons Biden didn’t seek
The $782.5 billion figure was some $42 billion above fiscal 2021 spending, or nearly 6 percent.
Congress · 117th Congress
Supreme Court to decide case on designer’s right to not create same-sex marriage websites
Any decision by the recently expanded 6-3 conservative majority, likely not until next year, could make this a potentially landmark case on a simmering social issue, and some Republican members of
Congress · 117th Congress
GOP decries cost of Pentagon anti-extremism and diversity training
Milley’s missive was dated Jan. 6, 2022 — one year after the Capitol riot. About 15 percent of those charged for perpetrating that attack had military ties.
Congress · 117th Congress
Defense appropriations likely to exceed fiscal 2022 NDAA levels
Key congressional staff disputed that figure, which would amount to a nearly 6 percent boost for Pentagon and other security accounts compared with fiscal 2021.
Policy · 117th Congress
Pentagon review finds few extremists in the armed forces
Austin III responded to the participation of about 80 veterans in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Only one active duty servicemember has reportedly been charged.
Campaigns · 117th Congress
Redistricting to test new Census method for protecting user data
Since the release earlier this month, Vink found more than 6 percent of blocks had some form of impossible result — a population greater than zero but no occupied households, no population but occupied
Congress · 117th Congress
Deal reached on $2.1B Capitol security supplemental
Shelby, R-Ala., would end months of stalemate between the parties about how to pay for costs stemming from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by pro-Trump rioters and other emergency spending matters.
Policy · 117th Congress
$6 trillion Biden budget would launch spending spree
President Joe Biden unveiled a $6 trillion budget blueprint Friday that would set the government on a spending spree to make up for what White House officials described as a “decade of disinvestment.”
Policy · 117th Congress
Budget release starts a process that will run through summer
If not, the deliberations could bleed past Labor Day and the pending expiration of enhanced unemployment benefits on Sept. 6.