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In a 65-32 vote. the Senate approved a $1.3 trillion bill to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year on September 30, 2018.

To mark the 150th anniversary of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Senate Historian Betty Koed reflected on the committee’s history. Senators Thad Cochran (R-MS) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT),…

Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta testified on his department’s fiscal year 2018 budget request. Topics included the impact on jobs if the Affordable Care Act were replaced, expanding apprent…

National Institutes of Health directors testified at a hearing on their fiscal year 2018 budget request, and some of the medical research taking place to combat diseases. The leaders outline…

Secretary Betsy DeVos testified before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on President Trump’s fiscal year 2018 Department of Education budget request. As in her last testimony on the 2018…

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly spoke before a Senate subcommittee about his department’s budget request for 2018. One of the areas he discussed was his concern of homegrown terrorism…

The Senate debated the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government through September, 30, 2017.

Defense Secretary James Mattis and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair General Joseph Dunford testified on the U.S. military’s readiness and the fiscal year 2018 budget. Much of the focus of the hea…

Former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue (R) testified before the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee about his nomination to be agriculture secretary. He pledged to be a strong…

The Senate confirmed former Texas Governor Rick Perry as Energy secretary. and Dr. Ben Carson’s as secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

The Senate approved the House-passed continuing resolution, which extends government funding until April 28. It also included funding for miners' health care for four months and the water sy…

The Senate resumed debate on H.R. 5325, the legislative vehicle for a short-term continuing resolution to fund the federal government through December 9. It also provides funding for Zika vi…

The Senate voted 52-48 to block the conference report for H.R. 2577, the combined transportation and housing spending bill with the military construction-Veterans Affairs spending bill, whic…

The Senate was expected to consider a joint resolution to block the implementation of the Labor Department’s fiduciary rule on retirement investment advice.

The Senate voted end debate on H.R.2028, an energy and water projects spending bill. 

Carla Hayden, President Obama’s nominee to be the next Librarian of Congress, testified at her confirmation hearing. Many questions Ms. Hayden answered concerned the Library of Congress’s fu…

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden testifies at a hearing on his agency’s fiscal year 2017 budget proposal. Mr. Bolden was asked how a proposed approximate two percent cut in NASA’s funding w…

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, along with the department’s chief economist and budget officer, testified at a hearing on the department’s $24.6 billion fiscal year 2017 budget request. T…

Secretary Jeh Johnson testified at a hearing on the Homeland Security Department’s budget request for fiscal year 2017. His department proposed a decrease in funding from fiscal year 2016 an…

Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley and Acting Secretary of the Army Patrick Murphy testified on their budget needs today on Capitol Hill. Mr. Murphy noted that while the base request of $125.1 …