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Category: Government Relations

Washington Weekly Update 3-18-24

Situation Awareness Both the House and Senate are in Washington, D.C. this week to complete work on the second set of fiscal year 2024 spending bills. Lawmakers have until Friday evening to pass a broad package that incorporates six separate measures. Currently, disagreements on immigration

Washington Weekly Update 3-11-24

Situation AwarenessThe House and Senate return to Washington, D.C., this week after passing the first “minibus” appropriations bill on Friday night, sending the bill to the President’s desk to be signed into law before their midnight deadline. Appropriators in both chambers will continue their work

Washington Weekly Update 3-4-24

Situation AwarenessCongress averted a partial government shutdown last week after striking an eleventh-hour agreement on a short-term spending measure that would further push back spending deadlines for all 12 appropriations bills. Appropriators will now have until March 8 to complete their work on the Agriculture-FDA,

Washington Weekly Update 2-26-24

Situational AwarenessThe House and Senate are both in session this week. During the next several days, lawmakers will rush to finalize a short-term spending deal to avert a partial government shutdown on Friday evening. In January, top leaders on the House and Senate Appropriations Committees

Washington Weekly Update 2-12-24

Situational AwarenessHouse and Senate are both in-session this week. The House is set to vote on H.R. 7023, the Creating Confidence in Clean Water Permitting Act, which consists of five stand-alone bills that aim to reform water and pesticide permitting. One such bill directs the Biden administration

Washington Weekly Update 2-5-24

Situational AwarenessBoth the House and Senate are on Capitol Hill this week. In the Senate, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will seek to kick-start consideration of a national security supplemental that pairs new assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan to border security and immigration reform

Washington Weekly Update 1-29-24

Situational AwarenessBoth the House of Representatives and Senate return to Capitol Hill this week. The House is scheduled to consider legislation on public safety and restrictions on migration, including a bill that would make acts related to Social Security fraud a ground for deportation. House

Washington Weekly Update 1-22-24

Situational AwarenessAfter passing a third “tiered” continuing resolution last Thursday that pushes funding expiration dates to March 1 and 8, lawmakers in the House of Representatives returned to their Congressional districts for a week-long recess. The Senate returns to Capitol Hill to resume negotiations on

Washington Weekly Update 1-8-24

Situational Awareness The House of Representatives and Senate return to Washington, D.C., for the second session of the 118th Congress. Lawmakers will immediately face two quickly approaching deadlines on federal funding for FY 2024. Over the weekend, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Speaker of

Washington Weekly Update 12-18-23

Situational Awareness The Senate returns to Capitol Hill today for a roll call vote on Martin O’Malley’s nomination as Commissioner of the Social Security Administration. This past weekend, lawmakers continued negotiations on finalizing a framework agreement on U.S. border enforcement policy reform in exchange for

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