The House began work on federal spending for the fiscal year 2022 budget year, a package of seven of the dozen bills that set annual spending. More than 200 amendments were allowed, and a…
View in Congressional Chronicle1,338 viewsNASA Administrator Bill Nelson testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee on the agency’s fiscal year 2022 budget request. Questions focused on building a space economy,…
634 viewsCommerce Secretary Gina Raimondo testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies on the department’s fiscal year 2022 budget…
446 viewsAttorney General Merrick Garland testified before a House subcommittee on President Biden’s fiscal year 2022 budget request for the agency. Committee members asked Attorney General Garland…
1,411 viewsSecretary Pete Buttigieg testified on President Bidens’s fiscal year 2022 Department of Transportation budget request. In his opening statement, Secretary Buttigieg discussed the administration’s…
381 viewsVeterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough appeared before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies to testify at a virtual hearing…
251 viewsThe Appropriations Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee held a hearing to address aging Veterans Affairs health care facilities across the country. Brett Simms, the…
273 viewsJohn Barsa, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) acting administrator, testified before House Foreign Affairs Committee on President Trump’s fiscal year 2021 $19.6 billion…
647 viewsSecretary of State Mike Pompeo testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on his agency’s fiscal year 2020 budget request. He answered questions on a wide range of foreign affairs…
2,815 viewsOn day 27 of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, House Democrats held a news conference unveiling a financial relief bill for federal employees affected by the shutdown. The…
2,214 viewsHouse Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), who was joined by a group of House Democrats from the Washington, D.C.-area who represent a large number of federal workers, urged President Trump…
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