A quick look back at the news from last week. Compiled by Penn Hill Group. HOUSE President Trump and Democratic Congressional leaders announced their support for attaching an extension of the Federal government’s borrowing authority and a continuing resolution for fiscal year (FY) 2018 funding through December 2017 to legislation providing additional spending for […]
A quick look back at the news from last week. Compiled by Penn Hill Group. HOUSE and SENATE The House Rules Committee will meet on Tuesday, September 5 to discuss the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2018 (H.R. 3354), indicating that the House will consider this legislation this week. This […]
A quick look back at the news from last week. Compiled by Penn Hill Group. HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate will be in recess until after the September 4th Labor Day Holiday. The House Rules Committee posted a running list of potential amendments to the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies […]
A quick look back at the news from last week. Compiled by Penn Hill Group. HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate will be in recess until after the September 4th Labor Day Holiday. The House Rules Committee posted the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2018 (H.R. 3354), which is […]
A quick look back at the news from last week. Compiled by Penn Hill Group. HOUSE The House and Senate will be in recess until after the September 4th Labor Day Holiday. The House Rules Committee announced that they will likely issue an amendment deadline prior to their return from the August recess for consideration of […]
A quick look back at the news from last week. Compiled by Penn Hill Group. HOUSE and SENATE House Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Education (ED) Secretary Betsy DeVos […]
A quick look back at the news from last week. Compiled by Penn Hill Group. HOUSE 62 Members of Congress sent a bicameral letter to U.S. Department of Education (ED) Secretary Betsy DeVos urging her to take steps toward reducing excessive discipline in schools. 59 Members of Congress sent a letter to ED Secretary […]
A quick look back at the news from last week. Compiled by Penn Hill Group. HOUSE The House Appropriations Committee marked up the fiscal year (FY) 2018 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS) appropriations bill, which passed on a party-line vote. Overall, the bill cuts U.S. Department of Education (ED) spending by $2.4 […]
A quick look back at the news from last week. Compiled by Penn Hill Group. HOUSE The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education and Related Agencies released then approved the FY2018 Labor-HHS Education bill for submission to the full committee by a party-line vote of 9-6. The bill is a $2.4 billion reduction […]
Penn Hill Group Principal Vic Klatt was quoted in a June 2o Inside Higher Ed article, “Staffing Woes at the Education Department.” Klatt commented on the hiring of personnel at the U.S. Department of Education (ED), in the context of Claude Pressnell withdrawing his name from consideration for the job of assistant secretary for postsecondary education at ED: “It’s […]