Donna Christensen (D) is the delegate to the House of Representatives from the Virgin Islands. A “delegate” is a is a non-voting member of the House elected from a U.S. territory (and the District of Columbia). Delegates are paid like regular members of Congress, they serve on committees, and they have many of the same [...]
While you were watching the big health care debate, the fiscal year 2010 spending process was going on underneath your radar. Congress allocated more than $20,000 per U.S. family in spending during the fall. Do you know where it went? If you don’t, perhaps it’s because the annual spending process once again went off the [...]
Congress didn’t finish the annual spending process by the beginning of the new fiscal year October 1st. It has passed some of the bills that run the government, but most of the government has been running on temporary spending measures, called “continuing resolutions.” Here’s a run-down of the action so far: On October 1st, the [...]
. . . with a Senate agriculture spending bill ($1,110), and a Senate military/veterans spending bill ($1,300). The House Interior spending bill has been voted on in the relevant Senate committee. The new version of that bill costs $335 per U.S. family.
Congress is well into the process of passing the twelve spending bills that dictate federal government spending for the 2010 fiscal year, which begins October 1, 2009. We’ve produced a table to track the House and Senate bills, their costs, and votes on them, as well as votes on final passage of the compromise bill [...]
Over the weekend we reported on the annual spending process getting into full swing. Well, it’s keepin’ on swingin’! As I write the House is debating H.R. 2892, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010. That bill spends about $450 per U.S. family on running the DHS. The House has already passed H.R. 2847, [...]
When is nothing happening newsworthy? How about when Congress spends thousands of dollars per U.S. family without oversight. With just over two weeks to go before the beginning of the new fiscal year October 1st, neither the House or the Senate have introduced all the annual spending bills, and none have passed into law. These [...]
In not one, but two proposed regulations, the Environmental Protection Agency is adding new sites to the National Priorities List. Maybe one of them is in your home town! Our congratulations go out to: Iron King Mine–Humboldt Smelter in Dewey-Humboldt, AZ Nelson Tunnel/Commodore Waste Rock in Creede, CO Flash Cleaners in Pompano Beach, FL Aberdeen [...]
The variety of things your government does is nearly endless. Here’s an announcement by the Institute of Museum and Library Services in the National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities that they will be studying the impact of free access to computers and the Internet at public libraries. (Yes, there’s an Institute of Museum and [...]
The Washington Post reports that the Washington Monument is extending its hours until 10 p.m. every evening until Labor Day. Now you can make those plans for a visit! Do you enjoy the national parks? The National Park Service is funded through the Interior Appropriations bill. The House and Senate bills last year called for [...]