by ADC | Dec 9, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360
House-Senate appropriations negotiators continued working toward a spending deal Monday night, with a “tenuous” agreement on border wall funding, according to Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chair Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.). The border wall is...
by ADC | Dec 8, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360
The federal government is currently operating under a continuing resolution that expires at the end of next week. Members and staff of the House and Senate appropriations committees worked throughout the weekend in hopes of passing all 12 spending bills before the...
by ADC | Dec 8, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360
A select committee formed to update House rules may consider re-instating earmarks. The practice was banned after a series of high-profile scandals. The bipartisan Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, led by Reps. Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.) and Tom Graves...
by ADC | Dec 5, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360
House and Senate appropriators are trying to settle differences over the next few days in an attempt to pass all 12 annual appropriations bills by Dec. 20, when current government spending runs out. “I’m more enthusiastic than I was a couple of days ago,” said...
by ADC | Dec 5, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360
House Armed Services Committee Chair Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said Senate Republicans should not hold up last-minute deals by insisting on additional border wall funding, because the administration can’t spend the border funds it currently has. The White House transferred...
