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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on his agency’s budget request for the 2019 fiscal year. Topics included U.S. diplomatic strategy, the pro…

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson testified at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on his department’s fiscal year 2018 budget request. He addressed members' concern over cuts in the pr…

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and other House Republican leaders spoke to reporters about their legislative agenda, including efforts to fund the federal government and avert a shutdown before th…

The House Budget Committee met to mark up the fiscal year 2017 budget resolution.

Secretary of State John Kerry testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on his department’s fiscal year 2017 budget, as well as current international challenges confronting the U.…

Secretary of State John Kerry testifed before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on his department’s the fiscal year 2016 budget proposal, and foreign policy challenges. The hearing covered…

Rajiv Shah testified on the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) priorities for the proposed fiscal year 2015 budget. He described the agency’s work on global hunger, educatio…

Secretary of State John Kerry appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to discuss the fiscal year 2015 budget proposal for his department and current foreign policy challenges, in…

Carol Galante testified that the $1.7 billion dollar cash infusion to her Federal Housing Administration from the Treasury Department was needed in order for the FHA to maintain reserves as …

Rajiv Shah and Daniel Yohannes testified on the budget request for their respective foreign assistance programs, the Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Millennium Challenge…

Witnesses testified on the financial health of Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and the government’s proper role in home mortgage finance.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified on her department’s fiscal year 2013 budget request.

The House passed a $40 billion emergency spending bill for New York City, Washington, D.C., and national security amid the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. The House also…

Participants talk about pork barrel spending by Congress and the release of their annual “Pig Book,” detailing several cases of unneeded spending. Following their remarks they answered quest…

Citizens Against Government Waste released its annual report on congressional spending called “The Congressional Pig Book.” The report examines congressional appropriations bills for items …

Members of Citizens Against Government Waste met with reporters to announce the release of the group’s 1995 Prime Cuts Catalog, which recommends about 650 federal government expenditures tha…

Republican members of Congress spoke in a Republican sponsored town hall meeting in Los Angeles. The meeting served as one of a series across the nation held to discuss the president’s econo…