The House approved a three-week continuing resolution on Tuesday, according to Roll Call. The stopgap spending measure, which passed 271-158, will keep the government funded through April 8 and would cut $6 billion in spending from the federal budget by the end of this week, if the Senate approves it.
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It might have seemed like a GOP victory when last November, President Obama ordered a moratorium on earmarks. But lately, a few House appropriators, both Democrats and Republicans, have expressed concern that the definition of what makes an earmark an earmark might be too broad and could create hurdles for 2012 spending More…
March is Women’s History Month, and to add to that history, the White House released an organized compendium of statistics on American women, focusing on their income, education, employment, health and their relationship to crime and violence. White House officials said Tuesday that President Obama will be using this information More…
The rumor mill on Capitol Hill has the nation anticipating a federal government shutdown, which could happen in nine days if Democrats and Republicans can’t agree on the federal spending plan for the remainder of the current fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 30. The current plan runs out on More…
The federal government changed a federal regulation (PDF) originally implemented in December 2008 to allow health workers to refuse to provide care in cases where they object to the procedure because of personal or religious beliefs, as The Washington Post first reported on Friday. According to the Post, More…
The House voted Friday to block federal funding to Planned Parenthood, passing 240 to 185.
The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), has been added to the Continuing Resolution (H.R. 1) to fund the federal government through September.
In an era where the word “transparency” is a favorite bell to ring, a Congressional committee chair has asked federal agencies to provide a complete list of names of every person that has made a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
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The Obama administration released today a series of “sustainability plans” meant to meet the requirements laid out in a Oct. 2009 executive order that called for improved energy efficiency and a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions at government agencies.
Congress has never before let federally extended unemployment benefits drop with an unemployment rate so high: That is the takeaway from a searing new report from the National Unemployment Law Project and the Center for American Progress.
President Obama announced this morning that the federal government would cut its emissions by 28 percent in 2020. It’s a small step compared to the nationwide carbon cap he hopes to institute — and which conservatives will battle tooth and nail — but it lends some quick credence to More…
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