As a path on additional COVID funding remains unclear, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) on Thursday said she’s advised the Biden administration to seek tens of billions of dollars more in emergency COVID-19 relief, suggesting it will take more than $40 billion to meet the testing, vaccine and therapeutic needs of the U.S. and the larger…
Read More Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made an urgent and emotional appeal to Congress on Wednesday morning to come to his country’s aid as it fights off a brutal Russian invasion, asking help protecting its air space, military assistance and stronger sanctions as part of what he cast as a war for the cause of democracy itself. …
Read More The Senate convened at 10:00 A.M. and resumed consideration of the nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget, post-cloture. The Senate is also considering the nomination of Susan Tsui Grundmann to be a Member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority for a term of five years. Senators…
Read More The Senate returns at 3 P.M. to resume consideration of Shalanda Young’s nomination to be director of the Office of Management and Budget with a procedural vote to advance her nomination scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Young, who is OMB’s deputy director, has been serving as acting director of the key White House office since a…
Read More Last night, the Senate quickly passed the $1.5 trillion government spending bill, sending it to President Joe Biden’s desk before the shutdown deadline tonight. The final vote was 68-31 on the 2,700-page, $1.5 trillion omnibus containing all 12 fiscal 2022 spending bills and $13.6 billion in supplemental appropriations to address the crisis in Ukraine. As…
Read More Senate Republican leaders are offering a deal to Democrats to speed up passage of a sweeping government funding bill that includes $13.6 billion in Ukraine aid saying they will agree to an accelerated schedule if Democrats give them up-or-down amendment votes on Republican priorities. Senators are facing an end-of-the-day Friday deadline to pass a bill…
Read More Republicans and Democrats struck a deal late last night on the long-delayed $1.5 trillion spending bill to fund the government until October and also provide nearly $14 billion to respond to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The House held a 1:30 A.M. Rules Committee meeting on the bill and the full chamber is expected to…
Read More The Senate reconvened at 10:30 A.M. and resumed consideration of H.R.3076, the Postal Service Reform Act. At the same time, Senators say they are close to an agreement to provide billions in new coronavirus relief, set to be tied to a massive government funding bill. Congress is expected to include at least $15 billion in…
Read More House and Senate lawmakers are racing to finalize and pass a massive government funding bill that would also send billions in new aid to Ukraine. Congress must pass the sweeping bill, which would fund the government through the end of September, and President Joe Biden has to sign it before the end of Friday in…
Read More Both the House and Senate are in recess today. Negotiations over an omnibus spending package remained far from complete Thursday night as the late arrival of a White House supplemental funding request threw a wrench in the talks. The White House on Thursday formally asked lawmakers to attach to the fiscal 2022 spending package $32.5…
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