The Senate convened at 10:00 A.M. and just passed H.R.3967, Honoring our PACT Act, as amended. The legislation would help millions of veterans who were exposed to toxic burn pits during their military service. A wide bipartisan majority approved the long-awaited bill by a vote of 84-14 and it will now go to the House… Read More
The Federal Reserve just announced that it raised interest rates by 75 basis points or 0.75 percentage point. This marks the greatest rate increase in 28 years. Additionally, the Fed indicated a much stronger path of rate increases ahead to arrest inflation moving at its fastest pace going back to December 1981, according to one… Read More
Senators are racing to finish writing the bipartisan agreement to combat gun violence this week in hopes of passing it next week before a scheduled two week July 4th recess, and they’re running into complicated challenges. The biggest hurdles so far are red flag provisions, specifically, assuring due process before gun rights are stripped from… Read More
Senate negotiators announced on Sunday that they struck a bipartisan deal on a very narrow set of gun safety measures with sufficient support to move through the evenly divided Senate, a significant step toward ending a yearslong congressional impasse on the issue. The agreement, put forth by 10 Republicans and 10 Democrats and endorsed by… Read More
Both the House and Senate are not in session today. As expected, the Senate left town without reaching a deal on gun-violence legislation, disappointing Democrats who had hoped to issue a joint statement with Republicans on an initial framework. Democrats say they are “very close” to an agreement with Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), the lead… Read More
The Senate reconvened at 10:00 A.M. and resumed consideration of H.R.3967, Honoring our PACT Act. The Senate will also vote on confirmation of the nomination of Samuel Bagenstos to be General Counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services. The House convened at 9:00 A.M. and passed H.R. 2377 – Federal Extreme Risk Protection… Read More
The Senate reconvened at 10:00 A.M. and continued work on H.R.3967, Honoring our PACT Act, which would expand the Department of Veterans Affairs’ health care eligibility to veterans impacted by toxic exposures. The upper chamber voted yesterday 86-12 to advance the bill, with all no votes coming from Republicans. The Senate is also expected to… Read More
The Senate reconvened at 10:00 A.M. and is working on moving forward a number of nominations. The Senate will consider Alex Wagner to be an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Chavonda Jacobs-Young to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics, Kenneth Wainstein to be Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, Department… Read More
The Senate will reconvene today at 3:00 P.M. from Memorial Day recess, with the House reconvening at 2:00 P.M. tomorrow. With a very busy week expected on both sides of the Capitol, the Senate will begin work today by considering the nomination of Alex Wagner to be an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for… Read More
The Senate is scheduled to leave later today for a ten day Memorial Day recess and convened at 10:00 A.M. to consider H.R.350, Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act which would require federal law enforcement agencies to regularly evaluate and take steps to address the threats posed by white supremacists and other violent domestic extremists. The House… Read More
