The Senate will be working five-day weeks straight until the week of March 17 under the chamber’s 2025 schedule, obtained Thursday by POLITICO. Senators would depart after Aug. 1 for their annual extended summer break from Washington. By Anthony Adragna and Ursula Perano12/05/2024, 1:45pm...
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The May survey results were released by Democratic staff on the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in a memo ahead of a Wednesday hearing with FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker on the agency’s oversight of Boeing. The memo also contained other findings the staff said it’s made...
Dr. Peter Marks testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing to examine an update from Federal officials on efforts to combat COVID-19, May 11, 2021, in Washington.Jim Lo Scalzo/AP, FILE The goal, FDA officials said, would be to...
That same joint statement, issued by the Democratic leaders in both the House and Senate, added, "The president has explicitly stated his intention to manipulate the Postal Service to deny eligible voters access to the ballot in pursuit of his own re-election. Alarmingly, the Po...
Senate seat in Texas. O’Rourke gained attention for his everyman demeanor and surprising past as a punk rocker, but he also holds a long history as an athlete. During his junior year at Columbia, O’Rourke co-captained the heavyweight rowing crew, a type of rowing geared toward larger, ...
When asked about the status of the deadlines request, the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell referred to existing policy for the census timeline and said it had nothing further to add. Historically, the Census Bureau is required to turn over numbers for apportionment, the process of...
As a Texas Senate staffer, Steven led a technology initiative that saved thousands of taxpayer dollars, concept-proved an instant feedback loop for public hearings, debuted the use of live geospatial data in a legislative hearing, and produced the first mobile app of any state legislative committe...
The text of a hearing before the Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts and Humanities is presented in which the family contribution schedule for the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) Program for 1979 was discussed. A letter from Joseph Califano, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
Bridenstine also suggested the House follow the same approach to the dilemma that the Senate did, "fencing" the 2020 request based on what those numbers turned out to be. He also appeared to lay the groundwork for justifying large budgets early in the program. "If we go inexpensive early,...