The House and Senate adjourn today for party conventions and the August recess, and we are reminded that presidential election years are rarely productive times on Capitol Hill. Despite a concerted, good-faith effort and even some movement on legislation...
The broad strokes of the President’s State of the Union address received their fine print today with the release of the White House’s fiscal year 2017 budget request. The Obama Administration’s last budget comes with the freedom from the political...
Last night, President Barack Obama delivered his last State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. Traditionally, the State of the Union provides the President with a primetime, national audience to present his legislative agenda and tout...
Winning approval in the House and Senate, a combined package of fiscal year 2016 appropriations and tax extenders is headed to the President for his signature in the coming days. As previously reported here, this legislation includes significant progress...
After weeks of intense private negotiations, Congressional leaders late last night released two major bills – an omnibus FY16 funding bill and a tax bill. Significant progress is made on several of the University’s priorities, including a nearly 7 percent...
Congress is poised to extend its own December 11 th funding deadline briefly as negotiations continue among leaders of both Parties in an attempt to finalize government spending for the rest of the fiscal year—a process kicked off by the passage of the...
Early this morning, the Senate approved the bipartisan budget deal which now goes to the President for his expected signature in the next few days. This will successfully avert any threat of federal default by suspending the federal debt limit until March...
With two important fiscal deadlines looming, Congressional leaders and the Administration unveiled a bipartisan budget agreement that would provide two-years of relief from the constraints of sequestration as imposed by the 2011 Budget Control Act...
The House voted this afternoon to approve the temporary CR to maintain government operations through December 11 th at current levels and free of any controversial policy riders. As expected, the CR needed Democratic votes to pass; the vote was 277 to 151...
As the end of the fiscal year approaches, Congress is moving forward on a short-term measure to continue government operations into December. Congress has not enacted any of its 12 annual funding bills due to year-long disagreements over the total level...
