House Committees Resume Reconciliation Markups

The House passed its first fiscal year (FY) 2025 spending bill during yesterday’s session and has completed legislative business for the week. The funding measure for MilCon-VA passed largely along party lines amid Democratic opposition to the GOP-sponsored bill. Lawmakers will take a pause on consideration of pending government funding bills next week as they […]

House lawmakers will meet today to take up the chamber’s first fiscal year (FY) 2025 appropriations measure. Debate on the funding bill for Military Construction-VA will get underway during today’s session and includes consideration of 47 amendments to the underlying legislation. Meanwhile, Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-OK) released bill text for the FY 2025 […]

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is planning action on a series of bills regarding access to contraception and other reproductive technologies. In a “Dear Colleague” letter to senators yesterday, Leader Schumer noted that the Senate will vote on a bill that seeks to create a right to access contraception. Noting that “there will be […]

Congress has adjourned for the Memorial Day district and state work periods, and lawmakers will resume legislative business on Monday, June 3. When the House returns, lawmakers are expected to take up the first fiscal year (FY) 2025 spending bill for Military Construction-VA, which passed out of the Appropriations Committee in a party-line vote during […]

Voters went to the polls yesterday in a series of key House primary elections. Here’s a quick recap of what you need to know: CA-20: California state legislator Vince Fong (R-CA) will be sworn in to replace former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) next month after winning the special election to serve the remainder of the former […]

House GOP leadership is planning to call up a pair of crypto-focused bills for consideration this week, including legislation that would establish a regulatory framework for digital assets. Specifically, the Financial Innovation and Technology (FIT) for the 21st Century Act would, among other things: (1) provide the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) with regulatory authority over […]

The House will meet for legislative business today as lawmakers look to quickly pass legislation to provide tax relief for recent disasters. Specifically, the Federal Disaster Tax Relief Act (H.R. 5863) would: (1) extend rules for the treatment of certain disaster-related personal casualty losses; (2) provide tax relief for gross income losses due to wildfires; […]

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced yesterday that the chamber will hold votes on legislation that mirrors the bipartisan border security agreement that was dropped from the national security supplemental talks earlier this year. A procedural vote on The Border Act — which contains various reforms to border-focused statutes that govern border patrol hiring […]

House lawmakers overwhelmingly passed legislation to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) through 2028, sending the bill to President Biden’s desk for signature ahead of Friday’s deadline. With FAA checked off, lawmakers will now shift their attention to work on other “must pass” legislative items such as fiscal year (FY) 2025 appropriations and the National […]

A bipartisan group of senators unveiled a “roadmap” for artificial intelligence (AI) that summarizes key findings from the Senate’s AI insight forums last year, and identifies key policy topics that merit bipartisan consideration in the 118th Congress and beyond. Policy priorities highlighted in the roadmap include: Increasing funding for AI innovation to advance U.S. leadership […]

Both chambers will resume legislative business tomorrow as the House looks to clinch a long-term reauthorization for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Late last week, the Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation that will keep the FAA operational into 2028, as well as a one-week extension to provide the House with additional time for a final vote. […]

Congress will return to action today as the House looks to send a long-term reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to the president’s desk. The FAA Reauthorization Act will come up for consideration under suspension of the rules today, and it is expected to pass the House with strong bipartisan support. Additionally, House lawmakers […]