Campaigns · 116th Congress
Coronavirus pandemic muddies election and opinion polling
But several pollsters have been able to keep their schedule.
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Congress · 116th Congress
Coronavirus pandemic presents additional hurdles for abortion access
Under normal circumstances, Texas women are required to schedule two appointments, 24 hours apart, to have an abortion, and the state bans the procedure after 20 weeks of pregnancy, making waiting
Congress · 116th Congress
Trump suggests ‘critical’ workers return, despite virus exposure
infrastructure industry, as defined by the Department of Homeland Security, such as healthcare services and pharmaceutical and food supply, you have a special responsibility to maintain your normal work schedule
Congress · 116th Congress
Senators fight over last-minute adds to coronavirus aid bill
Democrats say the directives set an aggressive schedule for unions to bargain and limit the time unions have to perform official duties “by over 91 percent in some cases,” the bill says.
Policy · 116th Congress
Undisclosed delays plague atomic programs, cost billions to fix
If the pattern continues going forward, it could create additional multi-billion-dollar budget hikes and, more importantly, could jeopardize the schedule for recapitalizing not just atomic warheads
Policy · 116th Congress
Big Supreme Court opinions could come amid coronavirus outbreak
While the court usually saves major decisions for the end of the term at the end of June, the coronavirus outbreak has shaken up the court’s typically fixed schedule.
Policy · 116th Congress
Coronavirus bill needs a do-over while small businesses chafe
Schedule up in the air The Senate was expected to reconvene Monday to consider Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act legislation (HR 6172), but the chamber’s schedule was up in the air for the rest
Congress · 116th Congress
Carbon-free nuclear power in a crisis just when it’s most needed
The newest large U.S. efforts, reactor units No. 3 and 4 at Southern Company’s Vogtle plant in Georgia, are years behind schedule and billions over budget.
Policy · 116th Congress
Congress looks at taxes, oversight, crime in fintech bills
Its Form 1040 schedule for deductions and adjustments, for the first time, asks taxpayers “at any time during 2019, if they received, sold, sent, exchanged, or otherwise acquired any financial interest
Policy · 116th Congress
Some fear new federal rules on hemp production may go too far
Congress followed up in the 2018 farm bill, legalizing hemp by removing it from the federal government’s Schedule I controlled substances list, where pot remains even though a majority of states have
Policy · 116th Congress
The perils of positive thinking
[jwp-video n=”1″] “Find a way to bring this in under budget and ahead of schedule” is not an order anyone with a modicum of ambition ignores, even if it’s next to impossible to obey.
Policy · 116th Congress
Marijuana criminalization could be clouding info on vaping deaths
Marijuana’s status as a Schedule I drug and the Drug Enforcement Administration’s rules limit academic research.
Policy · 116th Congress
House Democrats’ budget to assume corporate tax increase
Hoyer of Maryland] that we will have the budget resolution to the floor by the first part of April, and that’s the schedule he wants,” Yarmuth said.
Policy · 115th Congress
Postal Service Prayer: Deliver Us From Fiscal Doom
In the 2006 law, Congress required an aggressive prepayment schedule for future retirement benefit costs to ensure that there would be enough to meet pension and health obligations while USPS took
Policy · 115th Congress
These Planes Will Fight Fires, If You Can Wait 10 Years
The disclosure of the program’s lengthening schedule comes as California endures its deadliest fire season ever.
Policy · 115th Congress
Health Care Exchange Premiums Dip, Finally
Foundation’s director of health reform and private insurance, said that reinsurance helped stabilize some markets and said that federal action last year to shorten the open enrollment period one year ahead of schedule
Policy · 115th Congress
Budget Overhaul Panel Dances With Deadline
Such changes under consideration have included moving to a two-year schedule for adoption of budget resolutions, and potentially turning the budget into legislation that would be signed into law.
Policy · 115th Congress
FAA Passage Likely, But Timing Unclear in Senate as Deadline Looms
The House is scheduled to vote this week on the five-year bill, which members of the House and Senate from both parties agreed to early Saturday morning, but the Senate schedule is less certain.
Policy · 115th Congress
FAA Authorization Still Grounded in Senate
But when asked how that could be accomplished given the constraints on the Senate’s floor schedule — prioritizing votes on appropriations bills and confirmations, including the Supreme Court — he couldn
Policy · 115th Congress
Trump Wants to Freeze It. But Federal Pay Isn’t Driving Deficits
Critics argue federal pay is out of whack with the private sector, and the structure of the General Schedule and other federal pay systems is too mechanical to allow for true “merit-based” pay.