Congress · 119th Congress
Spending bill would boost court security, public defenders
Last year, the judiciary urged Congress to increase funding for defender offices, which are tasked with representing poor defendants.
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Campaigns · 119th Congress
At the Races: No end in sight
Brewer Dan Kleban suspended his campaign and endorsed the governor on Tuesday.
Trump directs Pentagon to shift funds to make payroll for troops
However, the Antideficiency Act provides the Government Accountability Office authority to identify and report violations of the statute, which can result in agency officials being suspended or removed
Campaigns · 119th Congress
At the Races: Slowdown and shutdown
Life after Congress: Florida Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the latest former House member profiled by Roll Call Managing Editor Jessica Wehrman for our “Life After Congress” series.
House passes pair of bills in rebuke to DC
After sitting in limbo, D.C. officials released asupplemental budget in May that avoided layoffs but suspended hiring. On Monday, Republicans on the House Rules Committee blocked an attempt by Rep.
Fears grow about plan to cut Pentagon medical research fund
Democrats in Congress, in particular, have been criticizing the proposed cut in speeches and statements.
Trump-endorsed stopgap funding plan goes down to defeat
And he definitely doesn’t like the debt limit being suspended for two years without any spending cuts attached.
DHS headed for yearlong stopgap as appropriations finale comes into focus
The U.S. suspended funding for the agency in January following that allegation, and the United Nations is currently investigating.
No sign of ‘debt limit 2.0’ talks as shutdown looms
Congress cleared a Senate-brokered package that funded the government for three months and suspended the debt limit until early the next year.
Congress · 117th Congress
White House $47B supplemental request seeks COVID, Ukraine funding
Congress reconvenes next week to start working on stopgap funding legislation on which President Joe Biden’s signature is required before Oct. 1 in order to avert a partial government shutdown.
Congress · 117th Congress
Biden signs short-term spending bill, averting shutdown
All the “no” votes came from Republicans, but passage wasn’t really in doubt after Democratic leaders agreed to drop language in the original House-passed version that would have suspended the debt ceiling
Congress · 117th Congress
Lawmakers scramble for Plan B on stopgap funds, debt ceiling
Congress moved closer to a partial government shutdown Monday after Senate Republicans blocked a temporary spending bill over their opposition to a debt limit suspension Democrats attached.
Congress · 116th Congress
Partisan stopgap funding bill set for House vote Tuesday
Democrats feared Trump might refuse to sign a lame duck stopgap measure — forcing a shutdown just before lawmakers are scheduled to wrap up the 116th Congress and leave Washington for their winter break
GOP Gets Ready to Own a One-Sided Shutdown Argument
Four times in the past three decades, budgetary impasses have required non-essential personnel to stay home and the activities at their agencies to be suspended.
GOP Gets a Second Shot at Governance Test
April 29 is a Saturday, so the doors to most federal agencies will be closed anyway, but if national parks are padlocked and passport services suspended then it will be lost on nobody who's inconvenienced
No, Congress Won’t Get More Productive Come Fall
[ Podcast: Conservatives Ready to Surrender Passing Spending Bills ] The only ironic silver lining is that — safely assuming the budget wars get suspended until after the election