CONGRESS The House and Senate convened for the start of the 118th Congress on January 3. The U.S. Senate was in session briefly and will be returning for legislative business on January 23. The U.S. House of Representatives Clerk gaveled the chamber into session on January 3, but the body has yet to get past […]
CONGRESS The U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate Committees on Appropriations released the bill text for, and several resources pertaining to, the fiscal year 2023 appropriations omnibus bill. You can find the bill text here, the explanatory statement for the bill here, the Senate Labor Health and Human Services and Related Agencies (LHHS) summary […]
CONGRESS U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patrick Leahy (D-VT) announced that lawmakers reached an agreement on a bipartisan, bicameral framework for fiscal year 2023 omnibus appropriations legislation. The U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate passed a continuing resolution to keep the Federal government funded until December 23. ADMINISTRATION President Joe Biden issued a […]
CONGRESS Incumbent U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) defeated challenger Herschel Walker in a runoff election. Senator Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) announced that she will leave the Democrat Party and will no longer caucus with the Democrats in the U.S. Senate. Representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ) announced that he will run against Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for Speaker […]
CONGRESS Democrats elected Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) as House Minority Leader, Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) as Minority Whip and Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) as caucus chair. A group of Republican House Members sent a letter to the House Republican Steering Committee in support of Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) serving as Chair of the House Education […]
CONGRESS Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona on the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) use of Federal resources in addressing “school board-related threats.” A spokesperson for Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) indicated that Sen. Sanders will seek the top Democrat […]
CONGRESS Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) won their Senate elections, ensuring at least a 50-50 Democrat majority (with Vice President Kamala Harris’ tiebreaking vote) for the 118th Congress. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was re-elected to serve as Minority Leader in the 118th Congress by his fellow Senate Republicans. Senator […]
Meet Penn Hill Group’s Fall interns, Joy Agwu and Chris Bezdedeanu. Joy is a rising Junior majoring in English and minoring in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and Chris is a rising senior at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs where he is double majoring in Citizenship & Civic Engagement […]
CONGRESS Elections were held this week for the entire U.S. House of Representatives and one-third of the U.S. Senate. Ballots are still being counted in House and Senate races to determine overall party control of each chamber. ADMINISTRATION The Biden Administration issued a statement titled, “The Biden-Harris Administration Advances Equity and Opportunity for Black Americans […]
ADMINISTRATION The Biden Administration issued a press release on its student loan forgiveness initiative, stating that 26 million people have provided the U.S. Department of Education (ED) with the information to receive debt relief and that 16 million applications for such relief had been approved. ED released final rules for Borrower Defense to Repayment (BDR), […]
