A quick look back at the news from last week. Compiled by Penn Hill Group. HOUSE and SENATE The Senate on Monday, October 26 confirmed Judge Amy Coney Barrett as the 115th justice on the U.S. Supreme Court by a 52-48 vote. House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert “Bobby” C. Scott (D-VA) released documents […]

Meet Penn Hill Group’s Fall interns, Soraya Zrikem and Kirsten Mettler. Soraya, a returning Penn Hill Group intern, is a senior at the University of Michigan and is pursuing a double major in Philosophy, Politics & Economics and English. Kirsten is a sophomore at Stanford University and plans to major in Political Science with minors […]

Meet Penn Hill Group’s Summer intern, Jack Rafferty. Jack is a rising senior at Miami University of Ohio, majoring in History with a minor in Political Science. See our interview with Jack below to learn more about him and all that he brings to the Penn Hill Group team. Welcome, Jack! Why did you decide […]

Meet Penn Hill Group’s Summer interns, Ailen Salazar and Alex Davis. Both are rising seniors at Cornell University; Ailen is pursuing a double major in Spanish and Sociology and Alex is majoring in Government. See our interviews with Ailen and Alex below to learn more about them and all that they bring to the Penn […]

HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate are in recess until the week of May 4. The Senate and House both passed, and the President signed into law, the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act (H.R.266). The bill provides $484 billion in funding for small-businesses, hospitals and for COVID-19 testing, including $310 billion […]

HOUSE and SENATE Rep. Susan Davis (D-CA), Chair of the Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee, released a discussion draft amending the National Apprenticeship Act. The Committee is seeking public comment on the draft by March 11, 2020 to be submitted to Apprenticeship.Comments@mail.house.gov. ADMINISTRATION The U.S. Department of Education (ED) announced the creation of a webpage on their main website […]

HOUSE and SENATE This week, Senators sought to advance, by unanimous consent, two proposals to extend mandatory funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) under the Higher Education Act (HEA), the FUTURE Act (H.R.2486) and the Student Aid Improvement Act (S.2557). Both requests were objected to and therefore did […]

HOUSE and SENATE The Senate, in a 51-41 vote, failed to pass an initial vote to start debate on a second fiscal year (FY) 2020 spending package.The four-bill package, H.R. 2740 (116), includes the Defense, Labor-HHS-Education, State Foreign-Operations and Energy-Water spending measures for FY 2020. The House Education and Labor Committee held a markup on the College Affordability Act (H.R.4674), the […]

HOUSE and SENATE The House and Senate are both in recess and will return the week of September 9th. The Senate passed legislation embodying the deal (H.R. 3877) to raise the U.S.’s debt limit and increase the budget caps for Fiscal Years (FYs) 2020 and 2021 on a 67 to 28 vote. The Senate Health, […]