Policy · 114th Congress
Trump’s Dispute With CIA Puts Pompeo in a Bind
Those statements have not gone over well at the agency, which views itself as a nonpartisan institution that delivers clear-eyed analysis without a political bent.
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Those statements have not gone over well at the agency, which views itself as a nonpartisan institution that delivers clear-eyed analysis without a political bent.
A key issue is the requirement U.S. military forces to be ready — within 12 minutes of perceiving the homeland is under attack — to launch some 600-plus nuclear warheads should the president decide to
“Just increasing the debt, adding on to the debt without a plan to pay it off other than our children or grandchildren is problematic,” he said. Fellow North Carolina GOP Rep.
“We should be grateful we’ll soon have a commander-in-chief who will champion our vets and honor the promises our nation made; a pro-private sector individual who surely understands bigger government
was new, throughout the country there were a lot of people picked up on traffic violations in states that had laws that said unauthorized immigrants can’t have driver’s licenses and had made driving without
That process should be streamlined to require only one form of identification—like a state-issued, REAL-ID compliant driver’s license.
Election Day is still looming, but a group of Democrats has already laid plans to start the next legislative year with a proposal that would allow students to graduate college without debt.
The report highlights Obama’s request for $1 billion in fiscal 2017 for the moonshot effort and alludes to the difficulty in advancing the program without additional federal money.
The CR “should now be unstuck,” Ryan said. The amendment authorizes the federal government to provide $170 million to communities like Flint.
/p> While Ryan said he does not believe additional funding for Flint — where officials discovered last year that the city’s drinking water system had been contaminated with dangerous levels of lead — should
“Until both sides accept that the narratives of the other should be taken seriously, red lines will continue to be missed, and possibly crossed,” Kearns says.
“To ensure vibrant, accessible, and durable markets, regulators must cultivate and embrace new technologies without harming innovation,” said Giancarlo.
Freedom Caucus member Justin Amash of Michigan thanked Huelskamp on Twitter “for remaining on the House floor to request yeas/nays on bills that congressional leaders had hoped to pass [without] roll call
Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf said Tuesday he was “deeply sorry” about the bank’s creation of more than 1.5 million bank accounts without customer authorization and added that the bank holding company’s
Weeks of Republican infighting over whether the House should move to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen could have ended last Thursday with a vote to table the impeachment resolution.
“If something should happen, causing an airman to make the ultimate sacrifice, that airman and his or her family should be properly cared for.
Without its annual spending measure, a department or agency loses the legal authority to obligate more money for nonemergency operations after Sept. 30 of each year.
Should additional disaster relief funds be needed, lawmakers could increase spending without breaking spending caps in the 2015 budget agreement.
Ryan Ellis, a senior fellow at Conservative Reform Network, a think tank, said that he expected members of the Freedom Caucus and other conservatives to push for floor action with or without support
And the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wouldn’t have authority to provide additional federal matching funds to Puerto Rico and other territories without further congressional action, she added