Heard On The Hill · 116th Congress
Pay to play: Will California prompt congressional action on college athletics?
Restrictive schedules filled with practices, games and travel, severely impact everything from sleep to selection of a college major.
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Some lawmakers question amount of time spent in committees
Members say their schedules have become so hectic and compressed that the courtesy, which the committee has extended for years, is needed.
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Senate appropriators to begin spending sprint next week to avoid shutdown
The work will begin Sept. 10, when the Defense and the Labor-HHS-Education subcommittees advance their respective bills, according to public schedules.
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GOP members confirm Bernhardt met with group tied to ex-client
CQ Roll Call first reported in April that versions of Bernhardt’s schedules posted online two days before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted to approve his nomination to be secretary
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Duncan Hunter’s trial appears on track to be postponed
But the date proposed by lawyers for both the California Republican and the government could change based on court schedules and the status of appeals.
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Climate change protesters glue themselves together in tunnel to Capitol
The House routinely schedules evening votes on “fly-in” days at the start of a work week, and Tuesday night’s votes went ahead as scheduled, only with lawmakers rerouting around the demonstrations
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Senate schedules debate on 9/11 victims compensation bill
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Rep. Hartzler to host $500-per-person event for defense executives on eve of defense markup
Instead, he said, it was a regular D.C. luncheon fundraiser; the congresswoman typically schedules two to three per month, he added.
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LGBTQ Equality Act passes House, pushing back on Trump’s religious freedom policies
Advocates worry that someone who schedules appointments or cleans medical instruments could object to assisting with an abortion or serving LGBT people.
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Legislative Branch spending bill opens door for employing Dreamers on Capitol Hill
The project is subject to review by the Appropriations Committee, including plans, cost estimates and schedules, which are expected later this summer.
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Democrats close but still short votes needed to pass $15 minimum wage
Sewell, the only House Democrat from Alabama, has offered a different approach — a regional minimum wage that would set different schedules for raising the federal standard based on costs of living in
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Bernhardt’s office acknowledges meetings left off schedule
Secretary David Bernhardt’s staff intentionally left controversial meetings with representatives of fossil fuel, timber and water interests off his public calendar, citing “internal protocol” governing his schedules
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The bells of Congress, they are a-changin’
Some workers whose schedules aren’t dictated by floor action even manage to tune them out. Newcomers and visitors find them, well, alarming.
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Committee had broken voting rules for years, gets scolding
The parliamentarian’s direction changes a longstanding voting practice designed to accommodate the busy schedules of committee members, who often must run back and forth between multiple hearings
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Newly disclosed meetings with industry create ethics questions for Interior secretary
Recently posted versions of acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s daily schedules contain at least 260 differences from his original schedules, with the newest records showing meetings previously
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Road ahead: Barr testifying on DOJ budget, likely to get grilled about Mueller report
Short schedules Both the Senate and the House are planning somewhat truncated weeks.
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Ocasio-Cortez tells Bobby Berk of ‘Queer Eye’ to swing by her ‘bach pad/warehouse type’ office
The freshman New York Democrat’s office in the Cannon Building is likely suffering a fate similar to those of other newcomers with busy schedules and government-issued furniture: It’s a bit drab.
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Navy routinely buys defective ships
As technical problems cause contract costs to balloon and schedules to slip, the brass typically decides to just get the ship out of the shipyard where it was built and move it to Navy ports — and then
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Boeing faces increasing political pressure to ground 737 Max 8
“The right thing to do is just to ground these aircraft, so that the airlines that have them would be able to adjust schedules, and make sure that other aircraft that are not the Max aircraft that
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Seeking to shrink Bears Ears, uranium firm met with Interior before review
Magallanes and Benedetto’s schedules both show they had a one-on-one meeting later that day. Energy Fuels Resources was not the only party to lobby for reducing Bears Ears.