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Federal departments and agencies funded by the Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill — which also covers Washington, D.C., and the federal judiciary — received $26.1 billion for FY24. The amount is $1.1 billion less than FY23 enacted levels. Minibus highlights: Rescind ...
Source:U.S.OfficeofManagementandBudget,BudgetoftheUnitedStatesGovernment,HistoricalTables,annual.See Internetsite Table456.FederalBudgetDebt:1960to2007 [290.5represents$290,500,000,000.Asofofthefiscalyear.Seetext,Section8] Total(bil.dol.)AspercentageofGDP1 HeldbythepublicHeldbythepublic FiscalyearFederal...
Why a Tuesday and Why November? Just like the food on their tables, Americans can thank agriculture for an Election Day in early November. In the 1800s, most citizens—and voters—made their living as farmers and lived far from the polling places in cities. Since voting required a day-lon...
The U.S. Judicial Conference, the judiciary's policymaking body, earlier this month adopted a discretionary policy that aims to ensure cases challenging laws are randomly assigned judges and cannot be "judge shopped" by litigants to sympathetic jurists in single-judge courts. (This story has be...
Pay Raise for Federal Judges, Optional Courtroom Cameras Approved by Senate Judiciary.Reports on the approval of a legislation that would increase the salary of federal judges and allow television and cameras in federal courtrooms in the U.S. as of May 2003. Percentage of increase in the salary...
Statement calling for congressional action on a pay increase for the Federal judiciaryBush, George W