Yesterday, a couple of resolutions were introduced in the House that I think are noteworthy. Many resolutions have no substance—recognizing “National Brush Your Teeth Day” and such—so we don’t even display them. But the ones that do something we display.
And we are displaying H. Res. 385. It would require congressional committees to publish bills [...]
With Congress out of town the next two weeks for the Easter recess, my surmise just a bit ago that the House and Senate would finish the budget on time may have been a little off. Congress returns on the 20th, five days after it is due to finalize the budget.
Congressional staff will be [...]
The House and Senate have passed their respective budget resolutions – and they’re pretty much on time. It’s a pleasant surprise, because it was looking like the annual budget process was going to go off the rails.
But they have until April 15th to mold their two plans into one. A conference committee with members from [...]
In January, Congress got a pay raise of $4,700, bringing their salaries to $174,000. Not bad at all, when you consider that people around the country are losing their jobs or taking pay cuts just to keep them.
In a recent comment on our post about bills to deny Congress pay increases, for example, a [...]
The 110th Congress officially adjourned on Friday. On Tuesday the 6th, the 111th Congress will commence work – at noon Eastern time if you’re keen to follow every step.
The new Congress will recite the Pledge of Allegiance and then adopt its rules of procedure. (This is what happens in the House; the Senate [...]
When Congress gets a head of steam with something like the financial services bailout proposals, its procedures can get really hard to follow. So here’s a quick look at what’s going on.
In the House last Sunday, the bailout language was copied into H.R. 3997, which used to be a bill dealing with tax relief [...]