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Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital Congress. The House and Senate are both in session this week. The House will take up the DC statehood bill (H.R. 51), the NO BAN Act (H.R. 1333), which would prohibit religious discrimination in immigration-related decisions, and the Access to Counsel Act of 2021 (H.R. 1573), which would require lawyers to be given to migrants in danger of deportation. The Senate will consider the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act (S. 937), which addresses the increase of hate crimes and violence targeted at Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs). The Senate is al...

Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital Congress. The House and Senate are back in session this week. The House is set to consider the Paycheck Fairness Act this week (H.R. 7), which would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to promote equal pay for men and women performing the same job, and they will also consider the Senate’s amendment on the bill to extend the current moratorium on the Medicare sequester (H.R. 1868). Outside of the bills scheduled for floor action, Democrats will continue working on the FY22 appropriations process and President Joe Biden’s infrastructure...

Progressive Caucus Chair Jayapal Calls for Cutting Pentagon Budget After Biden Proposes Increase On 4/11/21 at 3:54 PM EDT Representative Pramila Jayapal, a Washington Democrat and chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has called for cutting the Defense Department budget after President Joe Biden proposed an increase. The Biden administration released its fiscal year 2022 budget request on Friday, calling for $715 billion to go to the Pentagon. While it's not guaranteed that the amount requested will be approved by Congress, it would be an $11 billion increase compared to the 2021 fi...

The Pentagon’s pivot away from the Middle East and toward China will soon face its first major test: the massive budget request the department is set to submit to Congress this spring.

Missouri lawmakers to begin vetting Parson’s $34.1B budget request by John Haughey, The Center Square  | January 29, 2021 07:00 PM Print this article After delivering his State of the State address, Gov. Mike Parson Wednesday released his $34.1 billion Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) budget request that calls upon state lawmakers to fully fund Medicaid expansion. Parson’s FY22 budget request trims $1.1 billion in overall spending from the current year’s spending plan but includes a $583 million increase in funding from Missouri’s general revenue fund, which...