Heard On The Hill · 117th Congress
The Senate is about to pull some all-nighters. Why?
</p> That’s especially true this August.
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Congress · 117th Congress
Portman’s 2011 ‘supercommittee’ try informed infrastructure work
</p> Whether it passes or not, his work on the bill is a fitting coda for a lawmaker who is said to prefer policymaking to politicking, as Portman, 65, prepares to retire at the end of this term.
Congress · 117th Congress
Biden signs into law Congressional Gold Medals for Capitol Police, MPD
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law a bill that honors the Capitol Police, Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department and other law enforcement agencies with Congressional Gold Medals for
Policy · 117th Congress
Budget reconciliation instructions likely to assume deficits
And it could put more pressure on the stopgap funding bill needed to get past the Sept. 30 end of the current fiscal year without a partial government shutdown.
Policy · 117th Congress
As House focuses on China, farm groups see other land buyers
House appropriators took a bipartisan tough-on-China stance in the fiscal 2022 Agriculture spending bill with language to block acquisition of U.S. farmland and ranchland by companies partly or fully controlled
Policy · 117th Congress
As Labor reviews ESG rule, study says many 401(k)s don’t reflect sustainability pledges
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White House · 117th Congress
Biden order sets electric vehicle target of 50 percent by 2030
</p> The president’s order also directs federal agencies to begin work updating fuel standards for light- and medium-duty vehicles.
Campaigns · 117th Congress
At the Races: Racing to recess
</p> Senators are stuck in Washington working through a massive bipartisan infrastructure bill, and Democrats are eager to tout the bill and pandemic relief packages back home.
Policy · 117th Congress
Ahead of midterms, Democrats feel pressure to pass citizenship
</p> But it’s a big if.
Policy · 117th Congress
10 things to know about the infrastructure bill
</p> So the federal government has borrowed to foot the bill.
Congress · 117th Congress
Let down by infrastructure bill, climate hawks eye reconciliation
</p> The bill allocates $5 billion for greener school buses, with half of that money going to zero-emission electric buses.
Policy · 117th Congress
Conservatives take aim at infrastructure bill in Senate
</p> [Let down by infrastructure bill, climate hawks eye reconciliation]</p> “This is not really an infrastructure bill,” said Hawley, singling out language about gender identity tucked in the broadband
Congress · 117th Congress
Wyden-led amendment would clarify cryptocurrency reporting rules
</p> The provision in the infrastructure bill would add those who regularly provide services for transferring digital assets on behalf of others to the definition of a “broker” required to provide certain
Policy · 117th Congress
Mental health advocates seek crisis hotline expansion resources
</p> The process by state varies, and states are hoping for federal appropriations. Multiple states are also considering phone bill user fees.
Congress · 117th Congress
Senate appropriators warn of year-end train wreck
</p> Eventually, lawmakers passed a four-bill spending package and an eight-bill measure in December 2019 after using two continuing resolutions to keep the government running while they worked out final
Policy · 117th Congress
Top Republican wants even ‘more money’ for defense
Shelby of Alabama told reporters that the Armed Services Committee’s version of the fiscal 2022 defense authorization bill was “a strong statement” but added: “We would like more money.”
Heard On The Hill · 117th Congress
More work on Sundays makes senators ‘cranky’
“If it means that I have to work through the weekends, I will work through the weekends — and gladly so — because I want to get an infrastructure bill done.”
Congress · 117th Congress
Earmarks in House bills favor Democrats, but GOP not shy either
</p> DeFazio, whose Senate counterparts declined to include any earmarks in the bipartisan infrastructure bill that chamber is set to take up, is No. 1 in the House with $43.8 million.
Campaigns · 117th Congress
GOP’s Van Duyne tries to write her own headline after winning district Biden won too
</p> Democratic critics say she’s trying to have it both ways, and Biden even included her among members he criticized for touting pandemic relief programs that were in a bill they opposed.
Congress · 117th Congress
Amendment holds slow Senate infrastructure bill’s progress
</p> “We don’t want cloture to be filed soon,” said Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, one of the Republicans who negotiated the bill.