Policy · 115th Congress
Armed Services Panels Diverge on Space, Troop Levels
The committee will not release the full text of the bill until after the July Fourth recess.
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The committee will not release the full text of the bill until after the July Fourth recess.
</p> Health care bill The tough act of balancing tax cuts and offsets got even tougher when Senate GOP leaders jettisoned a proposal to repeal the 3 percent net investment income tax on people with high
</p> Menendez, a member of the bipartisan “gang of eight” that helped usher a comprehensive immigration overhaul bill through the Senate in 2013, acknowledged that while some Democrats chose to vote with
</p> Vice President Mike Pence and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma were also on Capitol Hill, joining in the effort to rework a bill that would tighten the cap on
The GOP proposal is meant to roll back the 2010 health care law and change the Medicaid program, and is somewhat similar to a bill passed by the House in May.
</p> The bill, co-sponsored by GOP Reps.
</p> The bill would also provide $5 million for the House sergeant-at-arms to enhance district office security, such as cameras, panic buttons and other security infrastructure.
House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry says he is “moving forward” to mark up a fiscal 2018 defense authorization bill the week before the Independence Day recess at about $705 billion.
</p> “So we will once again expend a lot of time and energy on the first launch, knowing damn well that the final bill will be at a number higher than what we’re discussing here today on nondefense discretionary
</p> The House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee’s portion of the fiscal 2018 defense authorization bill (HR 2810), released on Tuesday, calls for a separate service dedicated to defending
</p> The group discussed several current pieces of legislation including a paid leave bill sponsored by Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb.
</p> Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Thune told reporters the Congressional Budget Office doesn’t have the full Republican health care bill at this time, but does have access to several of
The House Armed Services subcommittees will all meet this week to approve their slices of the annual Pentagon policy bill, the first formal step in the months-long negotiations to move the massive measure
</p> The Jakubczaks’ bill is high, even for Alaska.
</p> Republicans also had a roster of health care all-stars, including Rodney Whitlock and Chuck Clapton, who were key in mounting a defense for the party against a bill no GOP members ended up supporting
administration’s proposal to his agency’s budget by 30 percent are falling short with House appropriators, who are making clear that they’ll toss it aside when they write their Interior-Environment spending bill
</p> The bill (S 517) sponsored by Sen.
Bill Bradley, a New Jersey Democrat who rose to fame before Congress as a star basketball player with the New York Knicks.
</p> But lawmakers were not able to come to an agreement on the 11th bill that advanced out of the Energy and Commerce committee last week after issues arose over a provision in the legislation related
</p> That echoes comments from other Republican members, like Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Ted Cruz of Texas and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana.