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The Week in Review House and Senate Appropriations leaders made progress toward averting a government shutdown and funding the government for fiscal year (FY) 2020 during a series of meetings last week. In a press gaggle following their Wednesday afternoon meeting, House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) and Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby (R-AL) announced that the forthcoming continuing resolution (CR) […]

The current continuing resolution (CR) funding the government is set to expire on Thursday. While it is widely expected that Congress will once again extend the CR – most likely for another month, in order to give itself time to pass some of the spending bills – we all recognize that we live in unique […]

House lawmakers have reconvened for legislative business and are continuing work on Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters’ (D-CA) bill to reauthorize and reform the Export-Import bank. After approving five amendments to the underlying measure, the House is expected to pass the 10-year reauthorization bill on party-lines later this morning. However, Chairwoman Waters’ bill is not […]

House lawmakers are set to begin consideration of a measure out of the Financial Services Committee that would reauthorize the Export-Import Bank. The bill — which was approved (30-27) by the Committee on a near party-line vote — would: (1) reauthorize the bank for 10 years; (2) increase the agency’s lending authority to $175 billion; […]

House and Senate Appropriations leaders made progress toward averting a government shutdown and funding the government for fiscal year (FY) 2020 during a meeting late yesterday. In a press gaggle following the meeting, House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) and Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby (R-AL) announced that the forthcoming continuing resolution (CR) will fund […]

Both chambers of Congress will reconvene for legislative business this afternoon while government funding talks off the floor continue. With less than two weeks left to avert a funding lapse, House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) and Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby (R-AL) are expected to meet today to continue negotiations on another continuing resolution (CR), as well […]

The Week in Review While House lawmakers left Washington for their Veterans Day district work period, Senators resumed consideration of pending presidential nominations. In a floor speech early last week, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) indicated that confirming nominees will be the focus of the Senate’s work so long as appropriations talks are deadlocked. Nominations that cleared the upper […]

The Senate will reconvene today to continue work on presidential nominations as negotiators deliberate next steps in the Congressional appropriations process. While Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby (R-AL) and House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) work to clinch a spending agreement that would avert a funding lapse, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) indicated yesterday that […]

The Senate will convene for legislative business later this afternoon and will return its attention to clearing the presidential nominations queue. For today, the upper chamber will vote on the nomination of David Tapp to be a Judge on the Court of Federal Claims, and will look to end debate on the nomination of Danielle Hunsaker to be […]

With 17 days left to avert a government shutdown, Congressional appropriators are ramping up spending negotiations as the Nov. 21 funding deadline approaches. In addition to a continuing resolution (CR) that would likely punt the government funding deadline until mid-December, negotiators are also working to broker an agreement on subcommittee allocations for each of the […]

The Week in Review The Senate jump-started its sluggish appropriations process last week, clearing (84-9) its first four-bill minibus containing fiscal year (2020) spending bills for Agriculture, Interior-Environment, Commerce-Science-Justice, and Transportation-HUD. While the $214 billion measure passed with broad bipartisan support, action on a second spending package quickly came to a halt. As expected, Senators did […]

After passing the first "mini bus" last week, the Senate will return its focus to nominations, with a series of judges expected to consume the floor time this week. In the Committees, the Banking Committee will hold a hearing on housing, while a Judiciary Subcommittee will hold a hearing on data security as the legislative […]