While the Senate is only in session for a brief pro forma session today, the House convened at 9:00 A.M. and passed S. 619 – A bill to require the Director of National Intelligence to declassify information relating to the origin of COVID-19. The legislation, titled the COVID-19 Origin Act, passed in a 419-0 vote,… Read More
President Joe Biden proposed the third budget of his presidency and his first to a divided Congress earlier today. The $6.8 trillion budget plan seeks to increase spending on the military and a wide range of new social programs while also reducing future budget deficits. While Republican control of the House ensures the full blueprint… Read More
President Joe Biden’s upcoming budget proposal, which will be released tomorrow, aims to cut deficits by nearly $3 trillion over the next decade, the White House said Wednesday. That deficit reduction goal is significantly higher than the $2 trillion that Biden had promised in his State of the Union address last month. It also is… Read More
President Joe Biden will travel to Philadelphia on Thursday to unveil his budget for the fiscal year that begins in October, rekindling his debate with Republican critics over cutting spending or raising revenues to achieve deficit reduction over a decade. Republicans in Congress want to link the budget debate with votes to raise the nation’s… Read More
While the House remains in recess for the Democrat’s annual policy conference in Baltimore, the Senate convened at 10:00 A.M. and is continuing its work on judicial nominations. The Senate is expected to take up the nominations of Colleen R. Lawless to be United States District Judge for the Central District of Illinois, Gordon P…. Read More
The Senate convened at 10:00 A.M. and is working on the judicial nominations of Margaret R. Guzman to be United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts, Colleen R. Lawless to be United States District Judge for the Central District of Illinois, Jonathan James Canada Grey to be United States District Judge for the… Read More
The House and Senate have returned from their President’s Day recess. The Senate convened at 10:00 A.M. and is expected to spend the day working on judicial nominations. The chamber will consider Jamar K. Walker to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, Jamal N. Whitehead to be United States District… Read More
While the House remains in recess until Monday, February 27th, the Senate convened at 10 A.M. and will resume consideration of the nomination of Adrienne Nelson to be a circuit court judge for the District of Oregon. At 11:30 A.M., the chamber will vote on the Nelson nomination and cloture on the nomination of Ana… Read More
The Senate reconvened at 10:00 A.M. and at approximately 1:45 P.M. will vote on confirmation of the nomination of DeAndrea Gist Benjamin, of South Carolina, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit and the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of Cindy K. Chung, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit… Read More
President Joe Biden delivered a plea to Republicans on Tuesday for unity in his second State of the Union address, but vowed not to back off his economic agenda and sparred with Republicans as he began to frame his argument for an expected re-election bid by portraying Republican policy proposals as out of step with… Read More
