Situational Awareness The House of Representatives and Senate are back in session this week. At a maximum, lawmakers have three legislative weeks before they depart for a month-long recess in October to campaign for reelection. During that time, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.)
Situational AwarenessBoth the Senate and House of Representatives return to Washington, D.C. next Monday, Sept. 9 for three weeks to complete work on a short-term spending measure that will fund the federal government for an undetermined amount of time to avert a government shutdown. The
Situational Awareness The Senate left Washington, D.C. last Friday after a failed procedural vote on a bipartisan tax package that would expand the child tax credit and roll back some changes to the tax code made by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The package was the
Situational Awareness The Senate is in session this week. After making the decision to pull votes on three FY 2025 appropriations amid intraparty GOP disagreements, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) sent House lawmakers back to their districts to start the August recess a
Situational Awareness Both the House of Representatives and Senate are in session this week. The House is slated to consider several President Joe Biden announced yesterday that he will no longer seek the Democratic nomination for president. The decision, made after a faltering few weeks
On April 23, 2024, the Department of Labor (DOL) finalized its regulation entitled “Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees” covering exemptions from the Fair Labor Standard Act’s (FLSA’s) minimum wage and overtime regulations. On the final rule’s
Situational Awareness Both the House of Representatives and Senate are in session this week. The House is slated to consider several environmental and federal land management bills, as well as their version of the FY25 legislative branch spending package and two bills related to home
Situational Awareness The House of Representatives is in session this week while the Senate is gone for a two-week recess. Lawmakers are scheduled to consider three FY 2025 spending measures, including the House Homeland Security Appropriations bill, which includes language that would require the Department
Situational Awareness The Senate is in session this week while the House is away for a weeklong recess. The Senate will consider several federal judicial nominations. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has made confirming as many of President Biden’s judicial nominees as possible a
Situational Awareness Both the House and Senate are in session this week. Before the House votes on the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which has been placed on the lower chamber’s schedule for votes this week, the Rules Committee will debate nearly 1,000 amendments