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Tue, 04/27/2021 - 10:11am -- tim Leahy Announces Restoration of the Power of the Purse: Reforms for a Return to Congressionally Directed Spending in Fiscal Year 2022 Vermont Business Magazine Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) announced Monday his intent to restore one of Congress’ constitutional powers, the power to approve congressionally-directed spending items (earmarks), and to do so with enhanced transparency and accountability. The Senate Appropriations Committee will, on a bipartisan basis, accept requests for congressionally directed spending items ...

Nigerian lawmakers sat for only 14 days in three months, missing deadlines for passing key laws The House of Representatives held only 14 plenary sessions in the first quarter of this year, less than half of the minimum of 36 sessions it should have held. 3 min read The House of Representatives risks not meeting the constitutional threshold of a minimum of 181 plenary sessions in a year, unless it changes the the current trend of its sittings. The House held only 14 plenary sessions in the first quarter of this year, less than half of the minimum of 36 sessions. The expected m...

Senate GOP says no to pork by keeping internal rule against earmarks, but many will not follow it Emily Brooks © Provided by Washington Examiner Senate Republicans decided Wednesday to keep their internal conference rule against earmarks, declining to join House Republicans in permitting members to take part in Democrats' revamped special project funding process. But even though the conference rule remains in place, it can't stop Republicans who to want to participate in the practice of allowing members of Congress to designate direct spending for certain programs or proj...

Republicans split on eve of vote to bring back earmarks Emily Brooks © Provided by Washington Examiner Senate Republicans will vote Wednesday on whether to allow its members to embrace the return of revamped earmarks. The return of pork, or a lean version of it, is exposing divisions among the 50 members of the minority party. Fifteen Senate Republicans, including Sens. Mike Lee of Utah, Ted Cruz of Texas, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Josh Hawley of Missouri, and Marco Rubio of Florida, signed a letter on Monday pledging to vote against repealing the confere...

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Senate has urged the Federal Government to declare a State of Emergency in the country due to security challenge. The Senate’s resolution was followed to a Point of Order during Wednesday’s plenary by Sen. Sani Musa (APC-Niger) on “The abduction of students of Government Science School (GSS) Kagara, Niger.” The upper chamber urged President Muhammadu Buhari to consider the recommendations of Senate ad hoc Committee on Nigeria’s security challenges dated March 17, 2020 as well as Senate’s resolution thereof as a holistic response to the security challenge...