rollcall.com —  4+ hour, 1+ min ago

...The idea, according to Senate sponsor Jack Reed, D-R.I., and co-sponsor Susan Collins, R-Maine, is to authorize about $100 million for grants to... ...The New Jersey Turnpike may be the first thing that comes to mind when the Garden State is mentioned, but its students are pretty well-educated about... ...The bills were referred to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and the House Education and the Workforce Committee. ... ...Institute, a Washington nonprofit that works with the National Environmental Education Foundation....

rollcall.com —  5+ hour, 2+ min ago

...Matt Lyons, senior director of policy and practice for the American Public Human Services Association, said his members will be scrambling to be... ...State agencies and the Agriculture Department face a perfect storm of legislative and regulatory demands as they turn the new food stamp work requirements... ...State agencies also will be juggling another issue under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as the food stamp program.... ...The Agriculture Department already has begun to lay out a framework for the SNAP transition....

rollcall.com —  1+ hour, 42+ min ago

...House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James R.... ...against President Joe Biden.... ...Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the committee announced.... ...“Allowing all Oversight Committee members to review this record is an important step toward conducting oversight of the FBI and holding it accountable...

rollcall.com —  5+ hour, 25+ min ago

...While groups like the American Hospital Association, which represents about 5,000 hospitals and which spent $27 million on lobbying in 2022, remain... ...incredibly powerful, inflation, rising health care costs and headlines about questionable business practices have put an unwelcome spotlight on... ...Lee blames an effort from groups funded by wealthy donors, including Arnold Ventures, West Health and Patient Rights Advocate, which have funded... ...partner and director of health care research at Veda Partners....

rollcall.com —  4+ hour, 32+ min ago

...In 1954, after the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools violated the Constitution in Brown v.... ...Supreme Court and its 6-to-3 conservative majority -- denouncing the shift in public opinion, a low 18 percent vote of confidence, as sour grapes... ...closing entire public-school systems -- as Prince Edward County, Virginia did for five years -- rather than tolerate Black and white learning side... ...In North Carolina, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper said recently that “public education in North Carolina is facing a state of emergency.”...

rollcall.com —  21+ hour, 51+ min ago

...The House Oversight and Accountability Committee plans to consider Thursday whether to hold the head of the FBI in contempt of Congress, in a dispute... ...A report released Wednesday states the resolution would recommend that the full House find FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress... ...Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the Oversight panel, said Monday that the push to hold Wray in contempt of Congress provides “a huge distraction... ...” as Trump awaits the results of the Justice Department special counsel probe....

rollcall.com —  16+ hour, 2+ min ago

...But the unanswered question was whether it was a sign of a new reality in the 118th Congress that would shape how, and if, major bills get done.... ...After advisories throughout the day that the House would meet to vote on reconsidering a rule that was defeated on Tuesday, House Majority Leader... ...But Josh Huder, a senior fellow at the Georgetown Government Affairs Institute, noted that usually the majority party would provide enough support... ...The procedural vote's defeat came when 11 Republicans led by members of the House Freedom Caucus joined every Democrat in rejecting a rule setting...

rollcall.com —  5+ hour, 3+ min ago

...Matt Lyons, senior director of policy and practice for the American Public Human Services Association, said his members will be scrambling to be... ...State agencies and the Agriculture Department face a perfect storm of legislative and regulatory demands as they turn the new food stamp work requirements... ...State agencies also will be juggling another issue under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as the food stamp program.... ...The Agriculture Department already has begun to lay out a framework for the SNAP transition....

rollcall.com —  12+ hour, 2+ min ago

...President Joe Biden vetoed legislation on Wednesday to block his attempt to grant student debt relief through executive action.... ...pending a decision by the Supreme Court.... ...Bill Cassidy, the ranking Republican on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said in a statement after Senate passage.... ...Daniela Altimari contributed to this report....

rollcall.com —  19+ hour, 30+ min ago

...Speaker Kevin McCarthy sought to defuse a protest from his party"s right flank that stalled House business Wednesday, opening the door to lower spending... ...caps than Congress agreed to last week in a bipartisan debt limit law.... ...Some members of the House Freedom Caucus have said they were disturbed by last week"s debt limit package because it allowed for more discretionary... ...Scalise said he didn't know if promises made to Freedom Caucus members to support McCarthy for speaker in January would need to be renegotiated now...