MARGARET BRENNAN: And we're back with the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Republican Mike Turner. Good to have you here in person. A lot to get to but I want to just button up on the border because you've been warning, and you have on this program, of your concern of th...
Stephen Ruhlen, most recently chief of staff to House Appropriations Committee Chair Kay Granger (R-Texas), has joined Baker Donelson as a senior policy adviser in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alum Carolyn Welshhans has joined Morgan, Lewis ...
The chair of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) on Tuesday pushed back on calls from progressive lawmakers to cut Pentagon spending, a day ahead of the panel's markup of the next defense policy bill that will include considering a $25 billion topline boost. "A lot of people who ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Looking to expand affordable education opportunities for all Illinois residents, state Rep. La Shawn K. Ford, D-Chicago, will again lead the House Appropriations-Higher Education Committee for the 104th General Assembly. “We need to continue to build on efforts to...
Republicans elected Greg Hertz as the incoming Speaker of the House, and as is his privilege, will name a new chair of the Appropriations Committee, and it will not be the present chair, Hamilton’s Nancy Ballance. “I had a conversation with the Speaker and he would like to replace me ...
Aide to House Appropriations Committee chair got $1.9 million buyout from lobbying firm
giving up the chairmanship of the House Appropriations Committee, punctuated the dwindling prestige and influence of the positions once consider an apex of power on Capitol Hill. Term limits, legislative dysfunction and gridlock-inducing polarization have gradually tarnished the very chairmanships that ...
Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., (right) speaks during a Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill on May 2, 2023, as Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., (left) listens. (Andrew Harnik/AP) The new chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee believes ...
House Republicans have tapped Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) to be chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, setting up an old bull appropriator with a history of earmarking to deliver on the anti-spending tea party platform that carried the GOP to victory this fall. ...
Rep. Sam Graves will continue to chair the House Transportation Committee, including writing a successor to the big-spending 2021 infrastructure law.