Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for Responsible Federal Budget, recently said in a statement that the stopgap spending bill will hopefully allow Congress to pass appropriations bills in the next few weeks before the con...
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Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has been under pressure from his right flank to scrap a $1.66 trillion budget price tag he reached with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer earlier this month for the spending bills. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said the continuing resolution passed Thursday will fa...
One lawmaker removed from office, three House speakers, around 300 bills passed by both chambers – here’s a look back at the 118th session of Congress by the numbers. Aneeta Mathur-Ashton Dec. 24, 2024 Who’s Coming to Washington? President-elect Donald Trump is picking f...
Mike Lawler, who is in a competitive race in New York, pointed to work he has done to secure needed infrastructure money for his district as well as his own various bills. One that passed the House and Senate this past week directs the U.S. Secret Service ...
The bill, known as theNational Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, passed the House by a bipartisan vote of 310 to 118 in one of the chamber's last acts before lawmakers leave for their holiday recess. The Senate had already voted to approve the measure on Wednesday night by a vote of ...
“Once we get the CR passed, we can all skip that drama and get to the negotiating table and cut to the chase to write serious bipartisan full year funding bills that can be signed into law,” said Senate Appropriations ChairPatty Murray(D-Wash.). ...
One lawmaker removed from office, three House speakers, around 300 bills passed by both chambers – here’s a look back at the 118th session of Congress by the numbers. Aneeta Mathur-Ashton Dec. 24, 2024 Who’s Coming to Washington? President-elect Donald Trump is picking from his most...
Indeed, in recent decades, Congress has hardly ever stuck to that timeline. According to the Pew Research Center, Congress hasn't passed more than five of its 12 appropriations bills on time since 1996, opting almost every year for continuing resolutions that extend funding before ultimately adopt...
The huge number of bills compared to the lack of productivity might be more than correlation, too. Lawmakers often introduce legislation they know won’t make it to the floor, hoping it can take a ride on another must-pass piece of legislation, or that they can at least tell their constit...