Congress · 116th Congress
White House keeping foreign aid spending on a tight leash
Democratic aides said they are “evaluating all options to ensure that appropriated foreign assistance funding is spent on schedule by the end of the fiscal year.”
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Congress · 116th Congress
Blue Origin files protest in controversial rocket competition
And depending on how long GAO takes to adjudicate the protest, it could delay the program’s schedule.
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Road ahead: All eyes on the budget and debt limit deal, except when Mueller testifies
A Foreign Relations subcommittee will hold a hearing Wednesday on the efforts to combat Ebola, and the Senate Agriculture Committee has a hearing on Thursday’s schedule that seems sure to attract
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Senate appropriations markups likely off until September
September is going to be a tighter schedule, however, given the chamber doesn’t reconvene until Sept. 9.
Congress · 116th Congress
Is there consensus on the new House consensus calendar?
Even if Schrader’s bill moves forward that way, leadership seems to want to avoid letting the consensus calendar drive the schedule and circumvent other rules and procedures in the process.
Congress · 116th Congress
Confirmation hearing planned Tuesday for Trump’s Defense secretary pick
That ambitious schedule leaves the Senate less than a month to hold a vote on Esper’s nomination and fill one of the most important cabinet positions, which has been vacant since former Secretary
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Pentagon readies for third acting secretary this year
The Senate is expected to be out of session for five weeks, starting Aug. 5, and the Armed Services Committee won’t schedule a confirmation hearing until the chamber receives the necessary paperwork
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McConnell waiting on House and White House deal on spending caps
[jwp-video n=”1″] Given the current Senate schedule, which has the chamber out most of August, Shelby suggested the Appropriations Committee would focus its time writing and marking up the larger
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Perfect attendance? Not for Democratic presidential hopefuls
The jostling between McConnell and Schumer over the schedule ahead of the July Fourth recess is the first time there has been a public expression of concern about significant and contentious votes
Congress · 116th Congress
Senate NDAA sets a plutonium target experts deem a ‘fantasy’
The House Appropriations report also notes that “the NNSA has not provided the current cost, scope, and schedule to meet plutonium mission needs as directed in the fiscal year 2019 Act” and it “directs
Congress · 116th Congress
Road ahead: House and Senate seek to pass dueling border funding bills
The Financial Services measure is on the schedule and the Legislative Branch bill may be added.
Congress · 116th Congress
White House threatens to veto resolutions blocking Saudi arms sales
In order to avoid such an outcome, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, agreed to schedule a committee markup next week for two bills from Menendez related to Saudi Arabia accountability
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Republican senator likely to push colleagues to curtail August recess again
The tentative current schedule for the remainder of 2019 sets up a similar possibility, with a five-week recess that’s scheduled to start the first full week of August and run through the week that includes
Congress · 116th Congress
Border wall, nuclear weapons to spark partisan fight at defense bill debate
Committee staff say they are on schedule to have the defense authorization bill on the House floor the first week following the July 4 recess.
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Road ahead: House tackles first spending package and NDAA endurance contest
House lawmakers have been warned that late-night votes are on the schedule as they work through floor consideration of a five-bill package that amounts to about $990 billion in discretionary spending
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Bipartisan Senate group seeks to block Saudi arms sales as Trump administration tries to avoid congressional review
The procedural maneuvering could wreak some havoc on the Senate schedule, with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky potentially having to dedicate long stretches of floor time to the disapproval
White House · 116th Congress
3 things to watch: ‘Low expectations’ for Trump’s trip to meet Japan’s new emperor
“And Prime Minister Abe will be there with him, and it’s a nice way to introduce the president in advance of a pretty busy diplomatic schedule.”
Congress · 116th Congress
Navy brass gets grilling on defective ships, idle subs, other spending priorities
Spencer allowed that he is worried that the $128 billion Columbia class nuclear-missile submarine program has no slack in its schedule.
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Let the fiscal 2020 spending games begin
A schedule for that measure’s full committee markup hadn’t yet been announced, but it’s expected on May 8.
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Lawmakers spar big-time on behalf of rocket companies
The 28 members urged Wilson “to do everything in your power to keep the acquisition on schedule.”