HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate will be in recess for the next two weeks and will return the week of April 29. The House passed H. Res. 293, which established an overall discretionary spending level of $1.295 trillion for fiscal year (FY) 2020. House Appropriations Chair Nita Lowey (D-NY) announced that $631 billion […]
HOUSE and SENATE The House Budget Committee passed a budget bill that would raise the fiscal year (FY) 2020 and FY2021 discretionary spending caps by a vote of 19 to 17. The bill would provide a $34 billion increase to non-defense spending in FY2020 and an additional $15 billion increase for FY2021. The bill would […]
Meet Gretchen Hopkirk, a junior at the University of Notre Dame, who has joined Penn Hill Group as an intern for this winter. Gretchen is a Television Studies major with a minor in Journalism, Ethics and Democracy. See our interview with Gretchen below to learn more about her and all that she brings to our […]
HOUSE and SENATE Senate Budget Committee Chair Mike Enzi (R-WY) said that informal conversations have begun between Republicans and Democrats about raising the discretionary spending caps for fiscal years (FY) 2020 and 2021. The House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies (LHHS) Appropriations Subcommittee will hold a public witness FY2020 hearing on […]
HOUSE and SENATE The House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies (LHHS) Appropriations Subcommittee will hold a public witness fiscal year (FY) 2020 hearing on Tuesday, April 9. The deadline to submit written testimony is Monday, April 8. ADMINISTRATION The Administration released additional materials on its FY2020 budget, including the budget proposals […]
HOUSE and SENATE The House Education and Labor Committee Democrats released a white paper on the value of higher education and their principles for a Higher Education Act (HEA) reauthorization. Three congressional hearings were held this week concerning higher education: a House Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies (LHHS) Appropriations Subcommittee hearing […]
HOUSE and SENATE Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) spoke about her Higher Education Act (HEA) reauthorization priorities at a Center for American Progress event this week. Among other things, she highlighted the need to improve affordability in higher education, hold institutions of higher education (IHEs) more accountable, […]
HOUSE and SENATE On January 3, 2019, the 116th Congress officially convened with Democrats controlling the House and Republicans controlling the Senate. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was elected as Speaker of the House, receiving 220 votes. The Federal government remains in a partial shutdown, with Federal agencies including the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security (DHS), Agriculture […]
HOUSE AND SENATE The Senate voted to cut off debate, or invoke cloture, on the nomination of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. With 51 senators voting to advance President Donald Trump’s nominee to a final vote expected over the weekend. ADMINISTRATION It has been reported that the U.S. Department of Education (ED) will miss […]
HOUSE and SENATE The House passed the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Defense-Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies (LHHS) Appropriations package by a vote of 361 to 61, and the President subsequently signed the bill into law today. The Senate Judiciary Committee held an additional hearing on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to […]
