Today, Congressional leaders reached an agreement on a fourth continuing resolution (CR) to temporarily fund the government beyond March 1, the first of two funding deadlines, with the plan to consider a full year spending package for six of the twelve...
Less than two months after narrowly avoiding a government shutdown , Congress once again is facing an end-of-the-week deadline to extend current funding with another continuing resolution (CR) or face a lapse in appropriations after Friday, November 17...
In an unexpected turn of events, the House of Representatives this afternoon on a strong bipartisan vote approved a continuing resolution (CR) to provide 45 days of stopgap federal funding at current levels. The Senate is expected to take up and pass this...
With a little more than one week remaining in fiscal year 2023, Congress has not yet enacted any FY24 appropriations bills or a continuing resolution (CR) to provide discretionary funding beyond September 30. A series of setbacks in the House this week...
Congress adjourned late yesterday for the August recess, capping a legislative session that included an agreement to suspend the debt limit in exchange for two years of capped discretionary spending, House and Senate passage of the National Defense...
This week, President Biden released his fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget request, which seeks total discretionary spending of $1.695 trillion, split between $886 billion for defense programs and $688 billion for nondefense, reflecting increases of three and...
This week, President Biden released his fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget request, which seeks total discretionary spending of $1.695 trillion, split between $886 billion for defense programs and $688 billion for nondefense, reflecting increases of three and...
The Senate passed (68-29) an omnibus appropriations bill to fund the government for the remainder of fiscal year 2023 (FY23), following protracted negotiations over topline spending levels. The House is expected to pass the spending measure later tonight...
Ahead of the congressional August recess and with a busy and politically divisive fall looming, there has been a burst of productivity in Congress on key domestic priorities. Bipartisan majorities united to pass the CHIPS & Science Act to bolster domestic...
Ahead of the congressional August recess and with a busy and politically divisive fall looming, there has been a burst of productivity in Congress on key domestic priorities. Bipartisan majorities united to pass the CHIPS & Science Act to bolster domestic...
Nearly halfway through the fiscal year, Congress is on the verge of completing legislation providing $1.5 trillion of discretionary funding for FY22, with the House passing (in two votes of 361-69 and 260-171) the omnibus bill late Wednesday and the...
Late yesterday, overcoming last minute objections to the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandates, the House and Senate approved a FY22 continuing resolution that will extend current government funding through February 18, 2022 and the legislation was...
