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AUTHOR ARCHIVES
Stopgap highway bill leaves pension provisions in limbo
March 29, 2012 The Senate passed a bill on Thursday to extend federal surface transportation authority for 90 days, preventing a shutdown that would have put 130,000 federal highway projects at risk. The bill now goes to President Obama. Passage of the stop-gap measure came after a failed last-ditch effort by Senate Environment ...
Congress votes to curb insider trading, require federal employee disclosure
March 22, 2012 The Senate approved a House-passed bill aimed at preventing insider trading by members of Congress and thousands of executive branch officials. The legislation now goes to President Obama for his signature. Senators agreed to discard a more extensive version of the bill they passed last month in favor of the ...
House, Senate postpone piracy bills under pressure
January 20, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
Julie Jacobson/AP Capping a dramatic week of protests and legislative maneuvering, leaders in the Senate and the House announced on Friday that they are backing off efforts to pass a pair of controversial bills to crack down on foreign websites that use pirated content. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid , ...
Republicans to ask Justice about Obama's recess appointments
January 5, 2012 Senate Republicans want the legal justification behind President Obama's decision to make appointments despite the Senate remaining in pro forma session, but the White House so far refuses to detail the legal advice Obama received. Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, was set to send a letter as ...
Senate strikes deal on short term payroll tax cut package
December 17, 2011 The Senate will approve a two-month extension of a payroll-tax holiday for workers Saturday after talks of a longer extension collapsed Friday night. The bill would also include a short extension of unemployment benefits and a so-called "doc fix" preventing Medicare physicians from taking a 27-percent pay cut next year ...
House approves $915 billion spending plan
December 16, 2011 The House voted 296-121 Friday to pass a $915-billion spending package to fund the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year, likely staving off a threatened midnight government shutdown. The vote came after a week of legislative maneuvering had left the bipartisan spending blueprint frozen in the broader ...
Deal reached to avert government shutdown
December 16, 2011 After weeks of lurching, Congress moved swiftly on Thursday toward a deal extending the payroll-tax holiday and unemployment benefits, averting a partial government shutdown in the process. An abrupt shift by Democrats ended the stalemate. By late Thursday, congressional leaders had almost resolved how to extend the payroll-tax cut and ...
Congress now shooting for weekend wrap-up
December 15, 2011 Congressional leaders made significant progress toward breaking the impasse on year-end measures Thursday and lawmakers are now predicting they will soon wrap up funding for the bulk of government operations. If their optimism proves founded, they will avert a partial government shutdown for the third time this year. Congress needs ...
Another legislative standoff looms
December 7, 2011 Congress moved closer to another legislative standoff on Wednesday, with Senate Democrats warning that a House Republican threat to leave for Christmas without a deal on extending an employee payroll tax holiday, would backfire politically. Senate Democrats and President Obama will remain in town until the extension passes, and would ...
Aides: Kerry deficit proposal on table; failure announcement still expected
November 21, 2011 What Democrats called a "last ditch" super committee offer made Monday by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, remained on the table Monday afternoon, but committee aides in both parties still expect the panel to declare failure within hours. GOP aides and lobbyists described Kerry's offer as informal. It is not on ...
